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March 25, 2008 at 23:17:18

Headlined on 3/25/08:
IBM, Darrell Issa, and Millions of "Lost" White House Emails

by Jason Leopold Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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“Leaps in forensic copying and imaging technology have rendered nominal the cost and burden of preserving media of the type envisioned by the court,” the NSA’s federal court filing says.

Payton, however, is increasingly coming under fire for the rationale she has come up with to explain the loss of the emails.

CREW filed a federal court motion earlier this month asking that Payton be held in civil contempt for knowingly submitting false, misleading and incomplete testimony in an earlier affidavit filed with a federal court on Jan. 15.

In that affidavit, Payton said she was unaware whether e-mails were properly archived.

CREW said Payton’s responses in her affidavit are “false and appear designed to mislead the court into believing that both discovery and any additional interim relief are unnecessary.”

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Jason Leopold is editor of the online investigative news magazine The Public Record, http://www.pubrecord.org, and the author of the National Bestseller, "News Junkie," a memoir. Visit www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview. He is also a two-time winner of the Project Censored award, most recently, in 2007, for an investigative story related to Halliburton's work in Iran. He was recently named the recipient of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award for a series of stories he wrote that exposed how soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been pressured to accept fundamentalist Christianity.

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GW is a proud American from NY State, concerned about ethics issues, media manipulation and overconsumption. He has recently changed careers to become an inner city schoolteacher. A firm proponent of curbing overpopulation and international adoption, he hopes to adopt a third child and enjoys history, outsider art, obscure garage rock and vinyl records.
Gustav WynnGW is a proud American from NY State, concerned about ethics issues, media manipulation and overconsumption. He has recently changed careers to become an inner city schoolteacher. A firm proponent of curbing overpopulation and international adoption, he hopes to adopt a third child and enjoys history, outsider art, obscure garage rock and vinyl records.

What's The Hold Up?

The Bush Administration is just trying to get to the finish line using a labyrinth of runaround and stall tactics.

We've known since the Gonzales hearings that sensitive emails were missing. The fact that computers and hard drives weren't and still aren't being confiscated means the wheels of justice are gummed.

Congress is afraid to enforce Congressional oversight. Why? Perhaps the NSA program was eavesdropping on Bush's political enemies and he has a juicy red file on each of them? I'd love to be proven wrong...

by Gustav Wynn (50 articles, 33 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 230 comments) on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 11:25:30 AM

Currently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee.
Mr MCurrently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee.

What's the Hold-Up?

Everything ... the corrupt courts, the corrupt congress, the corrupt justice dept., the corrupt media, the corrupt judges, shall I go on?

Can you say "Dog & Pony Show"?

I knew you could ...

I can remember back to the "missing 18 minutes" from the Nixon Tapes and it didn't take 1/100th of the time for congress to act and Special Prosecutors to be called, but the powers-that-be learned their lessons well since those days and everything they've done since has been designed to never let justice and the law get in the way of their criminal activities again - that's "progress" for you.

I really hate to say this but we've crossed over the line a long time ago where anything resembling a fair and just government exists in this country. It's simply a shell of it's former self. Criminals that have infested every branch and level of our so-called government have looted it dry and use whatever means at their disposal to hide their crimes and they have plenty of help along the way. We don't have government servants anymore, we have vultures feeding off the carcass of a dead experiment in democracy.

This one case is so eye-rolling obviously a cover-up for larger crimes as to insult the intelligence of even the dimmest among us, yet they persist with straight faces telling these blatant lies. I can only give them kudos's for their self composure for not breaking-out laughing as they spew them. And I have equal contempt for the American people in sitting silently by as they these cretins laugh at us for our inaction.

For I don't really blame the criminals any more. They're just doing what criminals do. I place most of the blame on Mr. John Q. Public. For it has bee obvious now for a long time that we can not count on our government for anything and to not rise to the occasion is to be complicit in everyone of these crimes.

I can tell you this - the time is soon approaching where this illusion will fail and the rest of the world won't be kind to us as we've been to ourselves. In the end justice will prevail, but it won't be coming from our end when it does and there will be no mercy giving anyone of us.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 1153 comments) on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 4:11:15 PM

I do not feel it necessary for me to give you a bio..this is not High School
Susan NelsenI do not feel it necessary for me to give you a bio..this is not High School

Case in point, Darrell Issa

those "emails" do not belong to Bush and the GOP..they belong to the people, the citizen taxpayers who paid for the damn computers and hard drives.....Bush and his minions have no right to destroy them with out our permission........

by Susan Nelsen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 240 comments) on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:35:08 PM

Public citizen interested in our Prez. and Congress
in abiding by the U.S. Constitution
R.B. AshworthPublic citizen interested in our Prez. and Congress
in abiding by the U.S. Constitution

Disgusted

What is disgusting and upsetting to me, and makes me angry about this particular situation is that other than Mr. Leopold's article(which I found "on line"), I have not seen nor read or heard a word reported by the mainstream media with regards to the vast number of missing emails.

In my opinion, just another in a long, long list of examples of how the main stream media is failing to do it job and likewise failing to fulfill it's responsibility in giving the general public much needed information as to how this Prez. and the W/H are thumbing their noses at the judicial system and consequently majority of the American public are unaware of just how this administration is abusing its powers.

by R.B. Ashworth (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 9:57:25 AM

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