After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands of e-mails sent by White House officials, the Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no longer plans to retrieve the communications by restoring computer backup tapes, the panel’s chairman said yesterday.
The move increases the likelihood that an untold number of RNC e-mails dealing with official White House business during the first term of the Bush administration, including many sent or received by former presidential adviser Karl Rove, will never be recovered, according to House Democrats and public records advocates.The RNC had previously told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it was attempting to restore e-mails from 2001 to 2003, when the RNC had a policy of purging all e-mails, including those to and from White House officials, after 30 days. But Chairman Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, disclosed during a hearing yesterday that the RNC has now said it “has no intention of trying to restore the missing White House e-mails.”
“The result is a potentially enormous gap in the historical record,” Waxman said, including the time leading up to the start of the Iraq war.
The idea that this administration can simply refuse to comply with the laws that govern its behavior is absolutely infuriating. We know they have lied to us repeatedly, and broken innumerable laws, and are going to cover that activity up by simply "losing" the evidence.
And this is yet another reason that I want Barack Obama as my next President. He is open about his mistakes and faults, and I doubt he would ever flout the law the way that the Bush administration has. With Hillary we still see the same kind of secrecy that we have come to loathe over the last seven years.
You are right, absolutely right. This administration is nothing but a bunch of liars.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I don't see how one man can clean up Washington. I am not saying Barack isn't sincere or anything, but even if he is I think it won't make that much of a difference.
The government in Washington is so crooked at this time, that the only thing that would solve it now is all new politicians. Flush them all and start over.