I would’ve hated to have had that job. How many breaths down the neck do you think these guys took from the federal government? The George W. Bush White House claimed it had lost millions of e-mails when an aide accidentally let GW near a computer and he tried to update his fantasy football team. Fortunately, computer technicians have recovered about 22 million e-mails the GW administration previously claimed to be lost.
Included in the e-mails? Jokes about poor people, hilarious pictures, and forwarded links from Buzzfeed. Okay, not really. It’ll take years for the e-mails to come out because they’re going to be sorted by the National Archive (read: that organization at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie.). Why? Because they need to determine which e-mails fall under the Freedom of Information act and which ones fall under the Presidential Records act (read: which e-mails would incriminate people who have money).
The e-mails have been littered with controversy, going back even to the Bush administration’s 2006 firing of top federal prosecutors in nine cities. Court records showed that the Bush administration knew about e-mail problems as far back as 2005, but did nothing to fix them. Also found? E-mails relating to the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity.
It’s a classy bunch that we have out of office.
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