Remember when an 18½ minute gap in an audio tape was enough to bring down a President? Those were the days.
But that was then, this is now…
The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed.
“When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired … the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,” the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola.
It has been the goal of a White House Office of Administration “refresh program” to replace one-third of its workstations every year in the Executive Office of the President, according to the declaration.
Some, but not necessarily all, of the data on old hard drives is moved to new computer hard drives, the declaration added.
We suspect this may call for some more sternly worded letters from Democrats!
Or, if they really want to go whole hog, they can follow in the courageous steps of Walter Mondale on Monday, who offered “blistering” comments about how Bush and Cheney have broken the law…followed by his explanation as to why they shouldn’t be impeached for having done so.
(Hat-tip BRAD BLOG commenter “Karen”)
Yeah, I read that last week. Snooze.
And that info is what they let out. Ever imagine what they don’t tell you?
No that is news baby, but there hasn’t been any for a generation or so.
Of course, I was on the road last week. So, as mentioned…getting caught up. With much! Unfortunately.
And the story above is important not just for the obvious reason, but as will become even clearer in the weeks ahead…
Dang you guys are screwed … nothing these guys (gwb and henchmen) do gets traction , your all sliding down hill at an ever increasing rate .4000 admitted death in Iraq … what the real count ?
But as cheney says “SO” .1 % of flights have air marshals … who would of thought terrorist would use aircraft as missiles LOL.
How many crimes does that make that the “White” House has committed now? Fine example we are all setting–just lie, cheat and steal your way to the top, right kiddies? I’ve been watching the “John Adams” mini-series and even Ben Franklin was a bastard–knifed John in the back with his “negotiations” with the French. My ancestral Colonial Revolutionary blood is boiling over. Pitchforks and torches–it’s time!
It’s the constitutional duty of the Congress to impeach when there is proof that the administration has been committing crimes. This isn’t a matter that is left up to anyone’s discretion or convenience! Mondale should just shut up if he doesn’t want to follow the system of checks and balances that the founding fathers devised to ensure that the government does not succumb to corruption. The entire Democratic leadership should be forced to resign in disgrace, and the entire administration should be renditioned to The Hague, forthwith! IMVHO
I totally agree with both Carol & Czaragorn.
It is long past time for Pitch forks and Torches IMO, same with War Crimes trials at the Hague.
In my lifetime I want to see Bush and Cheney swinging from a rope.
I think its quite obvious to anyone not brain dead that the Democrats are equally as guilty at this point, they are without any question flatly refusing to Impeach 2 war criminals that have committed no less than at least 20 Impeachable offenses each and counting.
War crimes, Crimes against humanity, TREASON just to name a couple.
There can be no doubt that the Democrats are complicit in these crimes as their actions speak volumes.
Impeachment proceedings should have begun in Nov 2007, both Bush & Cheney have committed no less than 20 Impeachable offenses each and virtually none of those are minor offenses like lying about a BJ or spying on the opposing party and erasing a few mins of tape.
We are talking the virtual destruction of the country and as long as they are still in power the very real likelihood of WWIII based on lies & false flag attacks.
ALL of these lying bastards need to be run out of Washington on a rail tarred and feathered and I mean ALL OF THEM!
You have to wonder at the all-pervasive Total Democrat Wimp-Out.
It truly boggles the mind.
The only thing that I can think of is that they’re running scared.
I think they’re afraid of more than just being marginalized, laughed at, ignored, demonized in the Mouth Piece Media). That’s a given.
I think they’re afraid of being ruined. Utterly. And their families, too.
Point to the neocons with any actual firepower, and you will be annihilated.
That’s the message they’re getting.
At least, this is the only way I can make any sense out of it.
We no longer speak softly but carry a big stick. Now we speak loudly but carry no stick. If Cheney were to respond to Mondale he would likely say “So?” and that would be the end of it.
We could select a good running mate for the Democrat but that is not worth the time it would take. In the end the only running mate that will matter will be that of the GOP. Their secret software still secretly “counts” most of the “votes”. It’s all over but the “counting” and they have taken control of most of the “counting”. So??? 😉
Over at Emptywheels the conversations go deep on this issue.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.c...sponds-to-eop/
Brad have you seen the best interview on the MSM about Iraq. Charlie Rose had his mind blown. This is a must read and a must watch.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/gr...ate/index.html
Kathleen ,if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears …
Well some of you posters got it
rightcorrect. News is not what they tell us, it is what they don’t tell us.Shame on the rest of you who claim to be journo’s but don’t get that!!
Even three
weeksweaks from now.NEWS is like, how many of what are missing:
(Raw News Baby). (clue for non-bradBloggers: not talking Russian here). Remember a ‘hard drive’ is not a ‘hard on‘ (code word for nuke).
And remember, no matter how
hardgood your faith is, if a nuke is missing and Gates is worried about it, McCain is using it in his campaign.Just like electronic voting machines.
HARD DRIVES … like I said … CIA ‘agents’ can be good in bed …
No matter how many hard drives are “proven” to be missing, since McPain is not going to win the election, they can only hope he wins an
erectionelection.Keep a straight
talkfacehardondrive.Long live the
MSMfree press.Question: If we destroy x, what does that have to to with y?
Answer: You must be fools.
re: lost emails..
If destroying hard drives without bringing data to new machines isn’t “criminal” in an industry that’s mandated to keep logs.. if not backing up data on main servers isn’t “criminal” when the law demands copies be saved….. at a minimum we should be hearing of the staff that’s been fired for gross misconduct and incompetence. But we hear crickets.
I probably shouldn’t be watching “John Adams” on HBO.. I keep getting the idea in my head that if we only burn down those corrupt bastards in power we’d have a great country.
The “preservation of presidential records act” was a spawn, not of the devil, but of the nixon preznitcy (a mild disease compared to the blush preznitcy).
The problem is that the American government is composed of “nice people”, like those in pre-fascist Germany who did not see Hitler coming not did they have the common sense to nip him in the bud.
They have nuclear strength rationalization but wimp ass danger analysis.
And thus these great Senators like Shumer and Feinstein enable the disease they disdain.
And have no clue they are so doing.
So, how do we rid a good government of the most foolish fucking idiots?
I was perplexed that Condi Rice pointed out a day or so ago that America has a birth defect. Well, if the fucking lunatic Pat Buchanan can be given a Brad Blog award, which he was, then Condi deserves the same for that statement.
The formation of the US Constitution was a pig circus until Marshal followed by a few sane people forced the bill of rights.
Without the bill of rights we are the same as any retarded fuck the people government.
The exercise of America is to strengthen the bill of rights and take them into and thru the 21st century.
The exercise of Amurkans is not to. That is the dreaded fucking truth people.