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By: emptywheel Thursday January 17, 2008 9:49 am
February 26, 2001: Gonzales informs White House staff they must preserve their email.
February 26, 2001: Gonzales informs White House staff they must preserve their email.
April 2001: GAO report on problems with ARMS and emails from the VP’s office in the Clinton Administration.
2001, unknown date: Susan Ralston prints off Rove email in response to Enron inquiry, gives that email to Alberto Gonzales, presumably alerting him to Rove's use of RNC servers for official emails.
Late 2001 to early 2002: White House deactivates ARMS system put in place by Clinton Administration to archive emails.
March 2003: Starting date of period during which White House has incomplete archives for emails.
July 11, 2003: Rove writes Hadley email immediately after his call with Matt Cooper.
September 29, 2003, morning: Scottie McClellan claims ignorance of a DOJ investigation into the leak.
October 1, 2003: Mayfield to Martin email passing on transcript from that day's Press Gaggle; the email was not apparently turned over until February 2006, presumably among the emails "not archived properly."
October 2, 2003: DOJ requests White House turn over materials relating to Wilson, his Niger trip, Novak, Royce, and Phelps.
October 5, 2003: Date on which Martin to Fleischer email printed out, apparently by Martin. It was originally written on July 7, 2003 and contained OVP talking points on Wilson for Fleischer to use in his press briefing, including the words, "Niger" and "Joe Wilson." Probably turned over to DOJ on October 9, 2003.
October 7, 2003: Reporter asks Scottie McClellan whether White House officials have to turn over emails they've deleted.
Q No, I understand that. I'm just saying how would this work? Let's say I remember -- I'm an official, I remember sending some email about this, but I've long since deleted it. How --
[snip]
[snip]
Q I just want to be clear, though, the White House is obligated to provide emails that may have been deleted by the individual but are still archived by the White House --
MR. McCLELLAN: Look back -- it said what is in the possession of, I believe, in the White House, the employees and staff.
October 13, 2003: Date on which July 11, 2003 Martin to Michael Anton email printed out. The email was apparently discovered in a search of OVP files by "OVP RM." It mentions "Niger" and "Wilson."
November 25, 2003: Per Hubris, date on which Rove aide B.J. Goergen prints out Rove-Hadley email (eventually turned over on October 14, 2004). The email mentions "Cooper" and Niger."
February 2, 2004: Addington drafts a letter to Keith Roberts, Acting General Counsel, Office of Administration, listing the new terms for a search of the OVP domain. If "Joe Wilson" or "Niger" were mentioned in the October 1 gaggle, the October 1 Martin to Mayfield email should have been found in this search.
February 11, 2004: Date on which June 11, 2003 Martin to Mayfield email printed out. The email was apparently discovered in a search of OVP files by "OVP RM." It mentions "Pincus" and "Niger."
February 11, 2004: Date on which July 11, 2003 Martin and Cooper email exchange printed out. The email was apparently discovered in search of OVP files by "OVP RM." It mentions "Cooper" and "Niger." Cooper's initial email was printed out, probably on July 11 or 12, though it has no date; Libby wrote notes on it on how he would respond to Cooper.
March 24, 2004: Fitzgerald asks Libby about email, suggesting Fitzgerald was surprised by the lack of email he received as evidence.
Q. You're not big on e-mail I take it?
A. No. Not in this job. I was in my prior job.
Q. You're not big on e-mail I take it?
A. No. Not in this job. I was in my prior job.
May 8, 2004: Date on which Abramoff-Susan Ralston email using the RNC server printed out by Greenberg-Traurig. This may have been the first public indication that White House employees (Ralston) were using the RNC server to bypass the more public White House server.
June 2004: Senate Indian Affairs Committee issues its first subpoena in its investigation into Abramoff scandal.
August 2004: In response to "unspecified legal inquiries," RNC stops its automatic email destruction policy.
October 2004: Per Hubris, Rove lawyer Robert Luskin first notices the Rove-Hadley email.
Rove's office had given Luskin a folder full of e-mails that included the one Rove had sent to Hadley. But Luskin hadn't noticed the important Hadley e-mail until October 2004, just before Rove was about to go back to the grand jury for the third time. (402)
Rove's office had given Luskin a folder full of e-mails that included the one Rove had sent to Hadley. But Luskin hadn't noticed the important Hadley e-mail until October 2004, just before Rove was about to go back to the grand jury for the third time. (402)
October 14, 2004: Per Hubris, Rove turns Rove-Hadley email over to Patrick Fitzgerald.
...on this day [Rove] turned over what he claimed was a recently discovered copy of the July 11, 2003, e-mail he had sent to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. (377)
...on this day [Rove] turned over what he claimed was a recently discovered copy of the July 11, 2003, e-mail he had sent to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. (377)
October 2005: White House Office of Administration discovers not all email has been archived properly.
According to CREW's sources, in October 2005, the Office of Administration ("OA") discovered a problem with this email retention process. The OA undertook a detailed analysis of the issue, which revealed that between March 2003 and October 2005, there were hundreds of days in which emails were missing for one or more of the EOP components subject to PRA. The OA estimated that roughly over five million email messages were missing.
OA briefs Harriet Miers and Patrick Fitzgerald on the email retention process. October 2005 is also the end-date of the period during which White House emails were not preserved properly.
OA briefs Harriet Miers and Patrick Fitzgerald on the email retention process. October 2005 is also the end-date of the period during which White House emails were not preserved properly.
October 25, 2005: Peter Zeidenberg asks Adam Levine about a conversation he had with Rove just before or after Rove's conversation with Cooper.
October 28, 2005: Libby indicted. Rove avoids indictment with, among other things, last minute explanation for email discovery.
January 23, 2006: Fitzgerald informs Libby that not all emails were archived properly.
In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of Vice President and Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system.
In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of Vice President and Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system.
February 2, 2006: Date on which Martin to Mayfield email accompanying Scotte McClellan transcript printed out, apparently by David Addington. The emails themselves do not mention "Joe Wilson" or "Niger,"though it is unclear whether the transcript included in the email mentions those words (the press briefing from that afternoon mentions "Wilson" but not "Niger"). The date and the high Bates number suggest this email was one of those "not archived properly."
February 6, 2006: According to Bill Jeffress, Fitzgerald received the missing emails.
I may say we are also told that there are an additional approximately 250 pages of documents that are emails from the office of the vice president. Your Honor, may recall that in earlier filings it was represented or alluded to that certain e-mails had not been preserved in the White House. That turns out not to be true. There were some e-mails that weren't archived in the normal process but the office of the vice president or the office of administration I guess it is has been able to recover those e-mails. Gave those to special counsel I think only on February 6 and those again are going to be produced to us.
I may say we are also told that there are an additional approximately 250 pages of documents that are emails from the office of the vice president. Your Honor, may recall that in earlier filings it was represented or alluded to that certain e-mails had not been preserved in the White House. That turns out not to be true. There were some e-mails that weren't archived in the normal process but the office of the vice president or the office of administration I guess it is has been able to recover those e-mails. Gave those to special counsel I think only on February 6 and those again are going to be produced to us.
Spring 2007: Emails turned over as part of Waxman's GSA investigation and HJC's USA Scandal investigation reveal ongoing use of RNC servers for official government business.
April 12, 2007: CREW releases "Without a Trace" reporting the loss of millions of emails supposedly saved on White House servers.
April 13, 2007: "Gold Bars" Luskin reveals that Fitzgerald made a copy of Rove's hard drive, from which he may have been able to reconstruct emails that were deleted off the server.
November 12, 2007: Judge issues restraining order preventing White House from destroying backup tapes.
January 8, 2008: Judge gives White House five days to reveal what emails are recoverable from backup tapes.
January 15, 2008: White House CIO submits statement admitting the White House "recycled" backup tapes before October 2003.
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Laura Callahan is a former senior director at the United States Department of Homeland Security who was forced to resign after an investigation revealed that she and numerous other federal employees had obtained high-ranking government jobs through use of fabricated academic degrees received from diploma mills. Callahan had also served as Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the US Department of Labor and was previously a senior information technology (IT) manager at the White House. Through her work in the latter position, Callahan had been involved in an earlier scandal when unspecified computer problems caused thousands of email messages to escape the reach of a congressional subpoena, and three contract employees alleged that Callahan had threatened to have them jailed if the problem was ever disclosed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Callahan
Interesting now Laura might want to get some legal assistance now. Anon. nothing is lost or gone with computers. As for the tapes it's now possible to get that information back. Remember when Nixon had the tapes deleted now those tapes could be restored. Even if the US can't do it there people around the world who can. I bet one of the young Al Qaeda fighters wouldn't mind getting the information for Waxman.
How very interesting anon...I like this: Gold Bars" Luskin reveals that Fitzgerald made a copy of Rove's hard drive, from which he may have been able to reconstruct emails that were deleted off the server."
Yes and I don't ever recall the special prosecutor stating that he didn't have them...but I do know that kind of thing takes time to reconstruct. sounds like the end is near for the neocons.
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