Judge orders White House to hold e-mails

AP via Yahoo ^ | 11/12/07 | PETE YOST

[Abathar]

I thought this guy sounded familiar...

Friday, February 17, 2006 Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. Sides with Al Qaeda Again

Another Clinton appointee, Judge Henry Kennedy Jr., has decided to rule in favor of Al Qaeda again by ordering the Bush Administration to release documents for its warrantless surveillance program:

A federal judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/judge-henry-kennedy-jr-sides-with-al.html

[Jaysun]

This is another leftist fishing operation. The White House shouldn’t have to divulge every communication no matter who is in office. The very idea is absurd.

[capt. norm]

Tell them the allegedly missing e-mails got mixed up with Hillary’s papers and won’t be available until her stuff is.

[highball]

Maybe so, but he’s right on this one.

[Right Cal Gal]

And the list of those suffering from BDS grows and grows....

[Abathar]

Why is that?

[techcor]

Didn’t the Clinton administration destroy a whole bunch of e-mails and got away with just saying “Oops!”?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

They’re trying everything they can to run against Bush/Cheney in 2008.

[Abathar]

I think it was Gore who did that if memory serves...

[trumandogz]

The White House shouldn’t have to divulge every communication no matter who is in office.

Bill and Hillary Clinton like what have to say.

[highball]

Because our system of government requires transparency. No administration should be allowed to destroy records that may be subpoenaed.

If a Dim had done this, if a Dim administration was fighting such a suit, we’d be all over them wondering what they had to hide.

[illiac]

All they have to do is say “OOPPSS”, they are already gone.....sorry...

[trumandogz]

The White House shouldn’t have to divulge every communication no matter who is in office.

Bill and Hillary Clinton like what you have to say.

[RJL]

Judge orders White House to hold e-mails

Boy, I sure hope the White House doesn't have catastrophic failures of both the email computers and the email back ups like the Clinton Gore administration had.

/S

[traditional1]

Find them on a table in the White House hallway, two years from now, next to the Rose Lawfirm Billing Records.....

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, that’s what Gore was into on his computer...destroying emails.

[Calvin Locke]

Specifically, or at least the one I remember, is Hazel R. O'Leary ordering the wiping of hard drives in defiance of a court order.

Bush's DOJ let her get away with it. Heck, she caused a problem on a plane after 9/11, and they still cut her slack.

[Dinsdale]

Guaranteeing that e-mail will never be used for any important communication.

Even in the corporate world you know not to put anything into e-mail that you don't want subject to eventual discovery by shysters.

[techcor]

Thanks for the info. That jogged my memory.

[Ramius]

Because our system of government requires transparency. No administration should be allowed to destroy records that may be subpoenaed. [...] If a Dim had done this, if a Dim administration was fighting such a suit, we’d be all over them wondering what they had to hide.

No, I don't think so. There are reasonable limits that simply must be set on the preservation of electronic data. To require full retention of everything is simply unrealistic and wasteful of IT resources.

There are new FRCP's (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) that have been promulgated early this year that reflect just that reality. The sheer volume of electronic data (especially email) is so enormous that keeping everything is simply unworkable for most organizations, and the White House would be no different.

Realize too, that by not having any ability to archive, store hierachically, and even delete ~anything~ they're also condemned to keep every spam message for every mailbox. That's ridiculous.