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    Damn court for requiring the federal government to follow the law.

    Bush administration and concerns over e-mail records.

    By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer – 53 mins ago
    Featured Topics: Barack Obama Presidential Transition WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Monday ruled against the Bush administration in a court battle over the White House's problem-plagued e-mail system. With two-and-a-half months remaining before the Bush administration leaves office, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that two private groups may pursue their case as they press the government to recover millions of possibly missing electronic messages.

    Kennedy rejected the government's request to throw out the lawsuits filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive.

    The government had argued that the courts did not have the authority to order the White House to retrieve any missing e-mails.

    Kennedy, an appointee of President Clinton, said the two private groups seek precisely the relief outlined in the Federal Records Act and upheld in a previous case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

    CREW and the National Security Archive want a court order directing the archivist of the United States to initiate action through the attorney general to restore deleted e-mails.

    Meredith Fuchs, the National Security Archive's general counsel, said that because of the ruling, a court order directing the White House to preserve 65,000 computer backup tapes remains in place.

    Fuchs said that when the Bush administration surrenders its records to the government on Jan. 20, the incoming administration of Barack Obama can "do the right thing here and clean up this mess by ensuring that any missing e-mails are restored from computer backup tapes."

    A White House document obtained by The Associated Press in August says the White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating to 2003.

    The nine-page draft document about the White House's e-mail problems invites companies to bid on a project to recover missing electronic messages. The end date for the work was listed as April 19, 2009. The White House has not said whether it has hired a contractor.

    CREW executive director Melanie Sloan called the court ruling "a clear victory for the American people. The Executive Office of the President does have to answer for the missing e-mail."

    White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said the opinion is under review and that presidential aides are conferring with the Justice Department about the next steps in the case.

    Sheila Shadmand, a Washington lawyer representing the National Security Archive, said the ruling enables protection of records "before they get carted off or destroyed as the current administration packs its bags to leave."

    In February, a former White House computer expert told Congress the White House had no complete inventory of e-mail files, that there was no automatic system to ensure that e-mail was archived and preserved, and that until mid-2005 the e-mail system had serious security flaws.

    Researchers at the National Security Archive disseminate historical materials to the public. CREW argued that the Bush administration is harming the private organization's efforts to gain future access to important historical documents that would shed light on the conduct of public officials.
    A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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    Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
    GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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    • #3
      Silly court. Doesn't the judge know that President Bush is not subject to any laws, made by either God or man? Bush is omnipotent.

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      • #4
        We're running out of time to cotinue bashing the Bush administration before they leave the White House.

        Hurry up and post your outraged comments in here!
        A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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          Please, we are going to be dealing with Bush' ****ups for decades. If conservatives still find time to fault the Clinton presidency, we are going to be able to make fun of Bush until 2050.
          If you don't like reality, change it! me
          "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
          "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
          "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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          • #6
            A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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            • #7
              Thats what i thought when Bush was reported to have said that his government is now preparing for the take over of Obama: ´Yeah, guys, time to get the shredder out.´

              But that isnt unique... when Schröder took over from Kohl in Germany (98), first thing reported was of missing files in the ´Kanzleramt´ (our ´oval office´ so to say).

              I wonder, why they dont just pass ´em around simply, instead of shredding them. I mean Bush could send a nice package to Berlusconi now, and when he´s done with Italy, there will probably be another friend of his in office somewhere else. And if no-one else is avaiable, the just send it all up to Canada, to weapons dealer Mr. Schreiber, who still sits there, hiding from german legislation, waiting for the public to forget that he is the key-figure in a corruption scandale, so big, that it, as one guy involved in it, said, would ´make this republic tremble at its foundation´, if completely revealed. Dr. Kohl just refuses to shed any light on it, cause he ´gave his word of honor´, that he wouldnt. I guess Mr. Bush did just the same...

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              • #8
                Originally posted by GePap
                Please, we are going to be dealing with Bush' ****ups for decades. If conservatives still find time to fault the Clinton presidency, we are going to be able to make fun of Bush until 2050.
                I agree with Mr Fun:
                No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
                "I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, author

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by GePap
                  Please, we are going to be dealing with Bush' ****ups for decades. If conservatives still find time to fault the Clinton presidency, we are going to be able to make fun of Bush until 2050.
                  It's not funny when it sounds likely.

                  I can just imagine some futuristic forums, filled with people like us, talking about how Bush is the cause of all the problems in 2050.
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