Posted by D. Cupples | Last week, House Oversight Committee chairman Henry Waxman released data from the White House about missing emails, after White House spokesperson Tony Fratto suddenly (and shockingly) said that there is no evidence that any emails are missing. (BN-Politics) This after months of news that emails had not been properly archived.
After examining that data, the Associated Press found that gaps in the email archives coincide with dates in 2003 and 2004,
when the Bush Administration was struggling with the CIA leak investigation (Valerie Plame Wilson)
and a possible congressional probe into Iraq intelligence failures. The White House is now disputing its own data. The AP reports:
"The gaps - 473 days over a period of 20 months - are cited in a chart prepared by White House computer technicians and shared in September with the House Reform and Government Oversight Committee, which has been looking into reports of missing e-mail.
"Among the times for which e-mail may not have been archived from Vice President Dick Cheney's office are four days in early October 2003, just as a federal probe was beginning into the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity, an inquiry that eventually ensnared Cheney's chief of staff.
"Contents of the chart - which the White House now disputes - were disclosed Thursday by Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the House committee, as he announced plans for a Feb. 15 hearing."
Other BN-Politics Posts:
* Cheney's Bizarre Defense re: Valerie Plame Wilson
* $1 Billion (More) in Military Hardware Missing in Iraq
* Propaganda Surge? Shifting Definition of "Success" in Iraq
* High Cost of Private Contractors
* U.S. Embassies: Still More Examples of Problems with Contractors
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