The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages — including those pertaining to the CIA leak case — have been taped over and are gone forever.
The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced the White House to reveal information it has previously refused to provide. […]
If the e-mails were not saved, the White House might have violated two laws requiring preservation of documents that fall into the categories of federal records or presidential records.
From the CREW:
Anne Weismann, chief counsel to CREW, said today, “With this new filing, the White House has admitted that although it has long known about the missing emails, it did nothing to recover them, or discover how and why they went missing in the first place. The missing emails are important historical records that belong not to the Bush administration, but to the American people. As a result, the public deserves a full accounting and hopefully, now that the matter is before a federal court, we will get one.”
CREW Previous White House statements on missing emails:
CREW Previous White House statements on missing emails:
January 23, 2006 Letter from Patrick Fitzgerald
Video of April 13, 2007 White House Press briefing with Dana Perino
Transcript of April 13, 2007 White House Press Briefing with Dana Perino
CNN story from April 13, 2007 on missing White House emails
December 20, 2007 Letter from Rep. Henry Waxman to White House Counsel
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