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473 Days of White House Emails Missing

Posted Jan 18, 08 3:53 AM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – An internal White House study found that  email messages weren't archived for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, the Washington Post reports. The disclosure follows the White House admission that administrators recycled back-up tapes for the first three years of Bush's presidency, possibly losing millions of emails during a time that included vital communication leading up to the war in Iraq.

A White House source said there were also many more days when the volume of emails archived was unusually low. The situation has triggered an increasing number of questions about lost White House emails, which the law requires be preserved for posterity. A private group suing the Bush administration claims "critical and highly relevant evidence may have been destroyed."

Sources Washington Post, BBC

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An internal White House study found that for Bush's executive office, no e-mails were archived on 12 separate days between December 2003 and February 2004. A private group suing the Bush administration...   (Getty Images)
President Bush looks at the White House website in this file photo. Results of a recently disclosed White House internal study found that there were hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005 when no e-mails...   (Getty Images)
US President George W. Bush stands at the door to the Oval Office...   (Getty Images)
White House staff have attacked the credibility of an internal study that found there were hundreds of days when no emails were archived."I could tell you today, though, that we have no evidence and we...   ((c) chrisbb@prodigy.net)
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