Bush Admin. admits to destroying e-mails from start of Iraq War, Leak of Valerie Wilson's name and

[babsbunny]

DOJ investigation of leak.

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30775

Submitted by crew on 16 January 2008 - 11:21am. Presidential Records Act Without A Trace
Very, very late last night, just before midnight, the Bush administration submitted a filing in CREW v. Executive Office of the President, our lawsuit challenging the failure of the White House to preserve and restore millions of missing emails. We first documented the massive loss of White House e-mails in our April 2007 report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act.

The latest filing from the Bush administration raises some very troubling questions that the White House clearly does not want to answer. (The filing from the White House and related documents can be found here.) This is how CREW's chief counsel, Anne Weismann, described the situation:

With this new filing, the White House has admitted that although it has long known about the missing emails, it did nothing to recover them, or discover how and why they went missing in the first place. The missing emails are important historical records that belong not to the Bush administration, but to the American people. As a result, the public deserves a full accounting and hopefully, now that the matter is before a federal court, we will get one.

[fascisthunter]

1. The Great Thing is... They Can't Be Destroyed

They should confiscate all servers and have forensics look at them. They'll be there, unless the servers were destroyed. Then he's guilty of obstructing justice. Now all we need are people in Congress who REALLY want to hold Bush accountable. All else is BS or the appearance that something is being done.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Look for backup tapes that are older than that time period

If they preserved backups tapes from a time prior to the time period in question, and backup tapes after that time period, but none from the period in question, that's pretty damming evidence of a deliberate and systematic attempt to destroy evidence.

[redqueen]

5. They re-used the tapes. Not erased, written over.

Convenient, huh?

[Xipe Totec]

6. But if they ONLY reused the tapes from that particular period

and not the ones from an earlier period...

[redqueen]

7. Ah I see what you're sayin...

*sigh*

I don't have much hope anyone will be held accountable... maybe a fall guy or three... who will then be pardoned. :(

[jimshoes]

3. I suspect they'd have better luck

trying to convince a leopard to change its spots. chimpy will never let any of those e-mails see the light of day, ever. He went through a lot of trouble to "86" those things, and any vestiges of them would look like swiss cheese if they ever did turn up.

[RC]

4. I really think they should be charged with destroying evidence a

capital murder case. How many people have died so far from the bu$h policies?

[C_U_L8R]

8. This is criminal

and charges should be filed.