Justice Department lawyer says missing emails may have been found

[NewEngland4Obama]

Justice Department lawyer says missing emails may have been found
Hours after a District Court judge ordered employees of the president's executive office to search for missing White House emails from 2003-05, a Justice Department lawyer disclosed that a successful search for the emails has already been concluded.

The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Helen H. Hong had stated at a court hearing that "private contractors had helped find the e-mails by searching through an estimated 60,000 tapes that contain daily recordings of the entire contents of the White House computers as a precaution against an electronic disaster."

The judge's order came in response to a lawsuit by two watchdog groups. Anne Weisman, the counsel for one of those groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, responded to the Justice Department announcement by saying, "I'll believe it when I see it." She noted that officials have not described the procedures used to recover the emails and that she hoped their results could be verified by an independent expert.

The district court had granted an emergency request for an extended order "to protect missing White House e-mails," according to a press release from the second group, the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute.

With President-elect Obama's inauguration looming just days away, the District Court of the District of Columbia issued the directive instructing the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to search its computers and ordering EOP staff "to surrender any media in their possession that may contain e-mails from March 2003 to October 2005."

In February of 2008, a former Bush administration employee said at a congressional hearing that the White House's "primitive" archiving system may have lost more than a million emails over 1,000 days.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Court_grants_motion_to_search_White_0114.html

[Catshrink]

1. Sweet!

[Voice for Peace]

3. shouldn't one of those be Quiminal?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Hmmmmmmmmm

Who is the private contractor?
who paid them?
I wanna look at this closer.

Me, trust the Gov. at this date?