Sunday, January 20, 2008

Missing without a trace emails; Addington’s Search Terms

From Emptywheel:

Among
the documents introduced at the trial was a draft version of the search that David Addington requested Keith Roberts of the Office of Administration to do on the emails on the OVP server. This is not a final version--it is what Addington sent to Deputy Special Counsel Roos to get his approval before he submitted it to Roberts to do his search. So hopefully Roos fixed some of the glaring holes in the email search--I don't know.In any case, here are the searches Addington requested in order to elicit emails on or to journalists from June 1 to October 31, 2003 and Joe and Valerie Wilson from October 1, 2003 until January 23, 2004 .

First Search


Search for email messages created between June 1, 2003 and October 31, 2003, inclusive through use of the following search terms:


"_Novak_"
"_Royce_"
"_Phelps_"
"_Leiby_"
"Mike_Allen"
"Dana_Priest"
"Glenn_Kessler"
"Matthew_Cooper"
"_Dickerson_"
"_Calabresi_"
"Michael_Duffy"
"_Carney_"
"Evan_Thomas"
"Andrea_Mitchell"
"Chris_Matthews"
"_Russert_"
"Campbell_Brown"
"_Kristof_"
"_Sanger_"
"Judith_Miller"
"_Hitt_"
"_Gigot_"
"John_Solomon"
"Jeff_Gannon"
"Talon_News"


Second Search


Search for e-mail messages created between October 1, 2003 and January 23, 2004, inclusive, through use of the following search terms:
"Joseph_C._Wilson" or "Joseph_wilson" or "Joe_wilson" or "Ambassador_wilson" or "Amb._Wilson" or "Amb_Wilson" or "Plame_" or "Niger_"

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2 comments:

airJackie said...

Now these idiots are so stupid nothing is ever lost, Waxman can get a 12 year old to get the information he needs. Let's face it these kids know more about computers then those paid for the job. When a teenager Philippines brought down the the entire US Government Computers. Remember the US is behind in computer knowledge, I say ask one of Bin Laden's cells to explain how to destroy computer information.

KittyBowTie1 said...

Making e-mail disappear is so easy. These clowns re-used the tape back ups, right? Gone. That's all it took.

It's like recording over something on a cassette tape or a VHS tape. It's very easy to make things disappear.

These clowns did it on purpose or they were grossly incompetent. Remember Bill and Monica? That made everyone realize that deleted e-mail can be retrieved from the tape back ups. Unless, the tapes are re-used.