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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 09:58 PM
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Access to Bush E-Mails Delayed
Bush E-Mails May Be Secret a Bit Longer
Legal Battles, Technical Difficulties Delay Required Transfer to Archives

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/20/AR2008122002102.html?hpid=topnews

The required transfer in four weeks of all of the Bush White House's electronic mail messages and documents to the National Archives has been imperiled by a combination of technical glitches, lawsuits and lagging computer forensic work, according to government officials, historians and lawyers.

Federal law requires outgoing White House officials to provide the Archives copies of their records, a cache estimated at more than 300 million separate messages and 25,000 boxes of documents depicting some of the most sensitive policymaking of the past eight years.

But archivists are uncertain if the transfer will include all the electronic messages sent and received by the officials, because the administration began trying only in recent months to recover from White House backup tapes hundreds of thousands of e-mails that were reported missing from readily accessible files in 2005.

The risks that the transfer may be incomplete are also pointed up by a continuing legal battle between a coalition of historians and nonprofit groups over access to Vice President Cheney's records. The coalition is contesting the administration's claim in federal court this month that he "alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records" and "how his records will be created, maintained, managed, and disposed," without outside challenge or judicial review.

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"We are worried," said Arnita A. Jones, executive director of the American Historical Association, which sued the White House several years ago seeking wider access to presidential records than President Bush said in a 2001 executive order that he wanted the government to provide. "There is a context that is not reassuring."
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 10:01 PM
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1. And look who died last night
in a plane crash.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 10:01 PM
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2. "There is a context that is not reassuring."
Ya think?
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 10:10 PM
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3. Oh dear god Arnita buy a clue.
Edited on Sat Dec-20-08 10:16 PM by bushwentawol
:eyes:

Could anyone with a job like that be that naive? Guess I have my answer.
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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 10:10 PM
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4. Technical difficulties, my hindquarters
I could get to those emails. Give me the equipment and I'll have the whole thing in the archives' hands in a week.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 11:20 PM
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5. Meanwhile Cheney is just going to claim that only he has control
of his documents and not release anything. These fucks intend to stonewall all the way to their graves. I suggest we speed them along.

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