That was the week when the Justice Department launched an investigation into the Plame leak and set a deadline for Bush administration officials to turn over documents and e-mails containing any reference to Plame Wilson or her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Additionally, Office of Administration staffers said there were at least 400 other days between March 2003 and October 2005 when e-mails could not be located in either Cheney's office or the Executive Office of the President.
Last year, in a sworn affidavit, Payton, the former head of the White House Office of Information, revealed that every three years the Bush administration destroyed its hard drives "in order to run updated software, reduce ongoing maintenance, and enhance security assurance."
"When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired... under the refresh program, the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction in accordance with Department of Defense guidelines," Payton wrote in her sworn affidavit.
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