It seems before they screwed up Iraq, the Bush administration screwed up the White House email system. Ars technica has all the details. "A federal magistrate judge on Thursday chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White House emails. The White House is facing lawsuits from two public interest groups, Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive at George Washington University, demanding that the White House restore the missing e-mails and put in place systems to prevent further e-mail losses. Administration officials were ordered to provide detailed information about the burdens involved in taking immediate actions to preserve copies of hard drive, tapes, and other media that may contain copies of the missing e-mails."
I guess we still have to see if laws were broken and of course merely being grossly incompetent isn't illegal, as this administration has shown time and time again.
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ugh, the Sarbanes Oxley laws (which if I am not mistaken our government implemented) state that *ALL* financially relevant data must be preserved for seven years, *including email*, and produced on demand (well, within the physical limitations of retrieving offsite storage).
I mean if this actually applied to our government someone would have screamed by now, no? but still I like how someone the rules the government puts in place just can't seem to apply to itself.
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