The Bush Administration’s inbox mystery: 22 million missing emails
bush emails
Given all of the controversy and secrecy surrounding many of the Bush administration’s national security decisions over eight years, the White House email from 2000 – 2008 must contain some juicy reading. To that end, two advocacy groups had sued the former administration in search of some 22 million emails that the Executive Office of the President claimed were missing or destroyed. Turns out that the emails were retrievable (they were found) and that there are dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost email from the Bush years. How does all of that valuable information get lost, and what does this mean for presidential secrecy?
Guest:
Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to National Security Archives; they just settled a suit they brought against the Bush Administration
- Patt Morrison for December 15, 2009
- Villaraigosa, live from Copenhagen Climate Summit
- The French Elvis is in L.A., sans amour des Americains
- The Bush Administration’s inbox mystery: 22 million missing emails
- Banking the Underbanked: FDIC tries to reach out
- The personal toll of unemployment
- Medicaid children and access to antipsychotic drugs
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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