White House Claims The Dog Ate Its Emails

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from AlterNet's PEEK:



White House Claims The Dog Ate Its Emails

Posted by GottaLaff , Brave New Films at 5:54 AM on November 13, 2007.

GottaLaff: A federal judge has ordered the White House to produce five million "missing" emails and the excuses just keep coming.



This post, written by GottaLaff, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films


They don't know nothin' about no stinkin' e-mails:


A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against.


Who, us? We didn't do it. We know nooottthhhhinggg:


The White House has provided little public information about the matter, saying that some e-mails may not have been automatically archived on a computer server for the Executive Office of the President and that the e-mails may have been preserved on backup tapes.

The White House has said that its Office of Administration is looking into whether there are e-mails that were not automatically archived and that if there is a problem, the necessary steps will be taken to address it.


This goes back to the CIA leak case:


Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald revealed early in 2006 that relevant e-mails could be missing because of an archiving problem at the White House.


We should just "trust" them to do the right thing:


Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes.

''The judge decided that wasn't enough,'' said Anne Weismann, an attorney for CREW, which has gone to court over secrecy issues involving the Bush administration and has pursued ethical issues involving Republicans on Capitol Hill.


The dog ate 5 million e-mails. And that's the truth. Trust them

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/67743/

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1. Looks like Barney gonna need to lawyer up

Is the White House pooch covered under the unitary dog theory?