White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone(Waxman releases info after Fratto's statement)

[maddezmom]

Source: WaPo

By Dan Eggen and Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 18, 2008; Page A01

The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.

The 2005 study -- whose credibility the White House attacked this week -- identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).

Waxman said he decided to release the summary after White House spokesman Tony Fratto said yesterday that there is "no evidence" that any White House e-mails from those years are missing. Fratto's assertion "seems to be an unsubstantiated statement that has no relation to the facts they have shared with us," Waxman said.

The competing claims were the latest salvos in an escalating dispute over whether the Bush administration has complied with long-standing statutory requirements to preserve official White House records -- including those reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions -- for history and in case of any future legal demands.



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[aquart]

1. Is this our MOST corrupt administration?

I think I miss Nixon. At least I remember putting his people in jail. It was a very pleasant sensation.

[EFerrari]

2. How is that possible? n/t

[L. Coyote]

3. Republicans do not lie. Them make an "unsubstantiated statement that has no relation to the facts"

[RuleOfNah]

4. 18 minutes vs 18 months, finally we have a clear a Nixon/Bush ratio.

Is Bush three orders of magnitude worse than Nixon?