Previous White House Statements on missing e-mails that conflict with yesterday's court filing
Submitted by crew on 16 January 2008 - 1:46pm.
Presidential Records Act Without A Trace
As noted below, late last night, the Bush administration admitted that it had destroyed e-mails which CREW has been trying to obtain through a lawsuit. We put together a compilation of previous statements from key officials relating to the missing e-mails:
January 23, 2006 Letter from Patrick Fitzgerald (pdf)
Video of April 13, 2007 White House Press briefing with Dana Perino
Transcript of April 13, 2007 White House Press Briefing with Dana Perino
CNN story from April 13, 2007 on missing White House emails
December 20, 2007 Letter from Rep. Henry Waxman to White House Counsel (pdf)
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3/03: start of the largest govt reorganization in US history!
In March of 2003 the White House Office of Homeland Security became the Department of Homeland Security, and the largest reorganization in this nation's history began! 87 congressional committees and subcommittees used to oversee the Department, and now it is 86.
CREW now has learned that there wasn't a single WH email preserved for the first 6 months of this government's largest reorganization!
Meanwhile, Karl Rove was violating The Hatch Act, including with the DHS and the proof of his criminal deeds was erased! How convenient for Rove and the Bush Administration!!!
Must we now be concerned that the US DHS, too, didn't preserve its emails so that emails sent from White House employees to DHS officials mean White House officials can't be implicated in corruption probes?