|
Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.So Bush wasn't ALL bad. Note the "could be". Two advocacy groups suing the Executive Office of the President say that large amounts of White House e-mail documenting Bush's eight years in office may still be missing, and that the government must undertake an extensive recovery effort. They expressed disappointment that Obama's Justice Department is continuing the Bush administration's bid to get the lawsuits dismissed. Sod off, Swampy. And if the records aren't found despite an 'extensive recovery effort', it will just be evidence of hiding, shirking and malfeasance, of course ... During its first term, the Bush White House failed to install electronic record-keeping for e-mail when it switched to a new system, resulting in millions of messages that could not be found. Evil Bush! The Bush White House discovered the problem in 2005 and rejected a proposed solution. What was the proposed solution? Was it workable? You didn't explain. Recently, the Bush White House said it had located 14 million e-mails that were misplaced and that the White House had restored hundreds of thousands of other e-mails from computer backup tapes. So they're gonna read 14 million e-mails? I hope they don't like to sleep or eat. Have fun and we'll see ya in a few thousand years. The steps the White House took are inadequate, one of the two groups, the National Security Archive, told a federal judge in court papers filed Friday. "We do not know how many more e-mails could be restored but have not been, because defendants have not looked," the National Security Archive said in the court papers. But we know they exist. I mean, they HAVE to. Also, who should do the looking? Resources should be wasted trying to find emails that may or may not exist? Dickweeds. "The new administration seems no more eager than the last" to deal with the issue, said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the other group that sued the EOP. Maybe they don't want Putzes reading everything. Be assured that an organization like 'Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics' is nothing more than a mail-drop, an e-mail account and a fax machine. And that its politics are hard-left ... The Executive Office of the President includes the president's immediate staff and many White House offices and agencies. Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, noted that President Barack Obama on his first full day in office called for greater transparency in government. What, you didn't get the Acme X-Ray Glasses of Transparency? My-my. The Justice Department "apparently never got the message" from Obama, Blanton said. The department defends the government when it is sued. It never ceases to amaze me how many people out there that just can't stand not knowing everything about every administration. Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-02-21 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=263142 |