Bush Administration MO: Breaking Laws and Defying Constitution
Dan Froomkin writes that Bush and his flunkies have made a mockery of the Presidential Records Act by ignoring the requirement for saving all official White House records including emails.
He reports, "At a congressional hearing yesterday, it became clear for the first time that top White House officials knowingly adopted a new e-mail system in 2002 that was riddled with technical problems that not only risked data loss but could easily be exploited by those who wished to keep their e-mails from public scrutiny."
A Washington Post article states:
"Steven McDevitt, who left the White House in 2006, said he supervised an internal study that found hundreds of days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices from January 2003 to August 2005. The study stated a range when tallying the total number of days in which an office had no recorded e-mails, from 473 -- which had been previously reported -- to more than 1,000, McDevitt said.
"McDevitt also said security was so lax that e-mail could be modified by anyone on the computer network until the middle of 2005."
In addition Froomkin writes, "Similarly, we already knew that Karl Rove and many of his colleagues routinely used Republican National Committee e-mail accounts for official business over a period of years, thereby avoiding any archiving process whatsoever. But House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman made the startling announcement yesterday that the RNC has not tried -- and has no intention of trying -- to restore any of those e-mails."
So what else is new? Breaking laws and defying the Constitution have been the hallmark of Bush and his administration. He and his cronies don't give a damn and fly the finger at Congress and the American people at every opportunity. Check out Hugh's list for 318 and counting Bush scandals and crimes.
What else can be expected when impeachment is still off the table?
He reports, "At a congressional hearing yesterday, it became clear for the first time that top White House officials knowingly adopted a new e-mail system in 2002 that was riddled with technical problems that not only risked data loss but could easily be exploited by those who wished to keep their e-mails from public scrutiny."
A Washington Post article states:
"Steven McDevitt, who left the White House in 2006, said he supervised an internal study that found hundreds of days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices from January 2003 to August 2005. The study stated a range when tallying the total number of days in which an office had no recorded e-mails, from 473 -- which had been previously reported -- to more than 1,000, McDevitt said.
"McDevitt also said security was so lax that e-mail could be modified by anyone on the computer network until the middle of 2005."
In addition Froomkin writes, "Similarly, we already knew that Karl Rove and many of his colleagues routinely used Republican National Committee e-mail accounts for official business over a period of years, thereby avoiding any archiving process whatsoever. But House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman made the startling announcement yesterday that the RNC has not tried -- and has no intention of trying -- to restore any of those e-mails."
So what else is new? Breaking laws and defying the Constitution have been the hallmark of Bush and his administration. He and his cronies don't give a damn and fly the finger at Congress and the American people at every opportunity. Check out Hugh's list for 318 and counting Bush scandals and crimes.
What else can be expected when impeachment is still off the table?
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