White House ‘reused e-mail tapes.’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/16/white-house-reused-e-mail-tapes/

White House ‘reused e-mail tapes.’

AP reports:

The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages — including those pertaining to the CIA leak case — have been taped over and are gone forever.

The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced the White House to reveal information it has previously refused to provide. <…>

If the e-mails were not saved, the White House might have violated two laws requiring preservation of documents that fall into the categories of federal records or presidential records.

[wake.up.america]

1. So, what's going to be done about this? Nothong, just like everything else.

[lynnertic]

2. that's great because you can pull old data off of overwritten magnetic tape

with few exceptions.

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Cool....thanks for sharing. n/t

[qb]

3. Oops! How "careless" of them. nt

[gratuitous]

5. Well, it's not like a criminal act or anythng

Oh wait, yes it is:

http://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.html

I wonder if this is a high crime or a misdemeanor? Ah, probably not. And it's not like there was anything important in those records. Probably. Would the Bush administration lie to us?

[AndyA]

6. Well, this just proves that in addition to all their other faults, Republicans

are technology challenged.

First, there was that gap in the Nixon tapes, and now this.

Or, they're just big fat crooks who should all be thrown in jail! :mad:

[bdamomma]

7. the crimes keep coming and nothing is being done.

why are these thugs still sitting in the WH?? shameful absolutely shameful, again, this would never happen in another country, they would be long gone.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. i'm sorry...basic...and I mean BASIC

data storage protocols would require that the tapes after writing data to them be made read-only...I cannot imagine that this happened by accident...

sP

[kestrel91316]

9. How convenient..........

Times like this I fully support torture and the death penalty.