White House tossed its computer hard drives. Bye-bye evidence

2008-03-22T13:57:38Z

(AP) Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005.

The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed.

It's also fruitless to undertake any effort to nail BushCo. But let's keep trying.

Under pressure to provide details about its computer system, the White House told the congressional committee that it never completed work that began in 2003 on a planned records management and e-mail archiving system. The White House canceled the project in late 2006 and says it is still working on a new version.

In the absence of a permanent archiving system, the White House has been archiving e-mails on White House servers since early in the administration.
The White House says it does not know if any e-mails are missing, but is looking into the matter.

And by "looking into the matter" they mean starting a new war with Iran, destroying the economy, and prying into the passport files of Barack Obama and others.

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White House tossed its computer hard drives. Bye-bye evidence