White House missing emails

[Vermouth]

The Bush administration has not found disaster recovery files for White House e-mails from a three-month time period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of Iraq may never be recovered.
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Two federal statutes require presidential communications, including e-mails involving senior White House aides, to be preserved for the nation's historical record.


The White House CIO said under oath that the backup tapes from March through September of 2003 contained no emails from before May 23, 2003. That was  the day the UN security council passed the resolution giving the US control of Iraqi resources.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602510.html

[Peter1469]

Sometimes it helps to hire incompetent staff.