GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails

[Crabby Appleton]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602312.html?hpid=moreheadlines

by Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 27, 2008; Page A02

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, said House Democrats and public records advocates.

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sorry, no emails for you.

[lligrd]

1. If This Doesn't Call For An Investigation I Don't Know What Does

Did they think we would be too busy watching the debates to notice or care? Or perhaps, they are just hoping that Congress will be to frightened to make a move again.

[JDPriestly]

2. This is outrageous.

Are we supposed to take the RNC's word for the fact that the e-mails were not subject to laws requiring a president to save his documents?

[grasswire]

3. send in the Federal Marshals and seize it all.

Box it all up, take it to the Congressional Police and hire a forensic team to do the restoration.