ViceZilla’s Views

The White House has three days to explain why it shouldn’t be required to copy its computer hard drives to ensure no further e-mails are lost, a federal judge ordered Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola’s proposal would require the White House to make copies of all e-mails from the period of March 2003 to October 2005.

Under federal law, it is required that all e-mail correspondence by White House staff be preserved, because it is considered part of the nation’s historical record.

March 2003 to October 2005 of course is the time frame just after the invasion of Iraq, and the leaking of Valerie Plame’s name, so one has to wonder if anybody will ever see these emails? I find that it is more than a coincidence that these e-mails were not preserved, because of what the White House claims was an attempt to recycle the backup tapes! Which means that the Bush Government would like us to believe that in the interests of saving tax payer dollars, they decided to reuse backup media, which as it turned out meant overwriting 2 years of Bush Administration correspondence. Yeah right!

When the Bushies aren’t lying to us, their excuses they use are extremely lame! An Administration that has spent over $500 billion for a war they lied the country into, and they are telling us that a couple of hundred bucks were saved by recycling backup tapes was a priority?

Regardless of just how exactly the emails have disappeared is irrelevant, because in three days we will no doubt be subjected to the same excuse the Bush Administration has used in the past to politely tell us where to go and how to get there: Executive Privilege!

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