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Perhaps one of the most under-reported stories of the decade is the deliberate, illegal destruction of White House and RNC-routed emails for a time period between 473 to over 1000 days. And you thought 17 minutes of missing tape in Nixon's office was a big deal? Of course, the real story isn't about how the National Archives is pressing forward to retrieve documents which should be legally recorded. The story is about the Mother Lode of criminal evidence against the White House regarding Iraq, the Wilson-Plame Leak Gate, and lord knows what else went on in the Rove-Cheney West Wing from January 2003 to August 2005.
Today's WaPo article, GOP Halts Efforts to Retrieve White House Emails, is almost as lost as the emails it reports on, buried somewhere deep in the Politics section under all of the Obama/Clinton drama. It was visible first thing this morning, but by mid-day I had to find it again by searching “White House emails” on the WaPo site.
I guess the big news today really is about Roger Clemens, and not Steven McDevitt, former techie in the White House. Richard Martin at Information Week pens:
Fortunately, our man over at The Carpetbagger is covering the subject today. You've got my vote for this year's “Best Political Blog” Daysie Award, Steve.
A PDF file copy of yesterday's Memorandum to the Oversight Committee is available, too. ZDNet's Richard Koman provided the link in his article.
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Last spring when the word IMPEACH began to circulate widely in the grassroots and the press, it was the issue of missing emails that finally broke the camel's back for me. A case for criminality in the Iraq War, in my opinion, could never be made conclusively, no matter how tragic it continues to be.
But missing documents? Documents withheld from legal inspection? An invisibly managed Executive Branch? Here we have clear cut violations of federal law.
And not enough political will or media interest to pursue it.
Nate