Republican administration deletes history.


From a New York Times editorial, 7/13/08:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/opinion/13sun3.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&oref=slogin

History Deleted at the White House


After watching wholesale lots of the Bush administration?s most
important e-mails go mysteriously missing, Congress is trying to
legislate against any further damage to history.

The secrecy-obsessed White House is, of course, threatening a veto ?
one more effort to deny Americans their rightful access to the truth
about how their leaders govern or misgovern.

The House approved a measure last week that would require the National
Archives to issue stronger standards for preserving e-mails and to
aggressively inspect whether an administration is in compliance.

The Archives needs spine stiffening.

Congressional investigators found that its staff backed off from
inspections of e-mail storage after the Bush administration took
office.

We fear we may never find out all that has gone missing in this
administration, although we urge Congressional investigators to keep
trying.

What we do know is that the Bush gaps of missing e-mails run into
hundreds of thousands during some of the most sensitive political
moments.

Key gaps coincide with the lead-up to the Iraq war ? and the White
House?s manipulation of intelligence ? as well as the destruction of
videotapes of C.I.A. interrogations and the outing of the C.I.A.
operative Valerie Plame Wilson.

Missing e-mails include entire blank days at the offices of President
Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Also mysteriously wiped from the record are e-mails from Karl Rove,
the president?s political guru, and dozens of other White House
workers who improperly conducted government business on Republican
Party e-mail accounts.

The White House now claims that nothing has been lost, though
officials previously acknowledged large-scale purging, claiming they
were accidental.

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Accidental? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Harry
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