It seems to me if there is a giant stack of whitehouse emails that are discoverable for a period of time where bad things happened, isn’t it possible that the only way to know what is there is to just print it all out and go through it. I mean we have huge document dumps regularly. Why not doc dump these on some investigators and get it out there. Maybe give the doc dump to a special prosecutor?

I am no expert in these matters but sometimes low tech is the only way to get stuff done. I mean if “not archived properly” is the question…well lets figure out a way to find it. If you can figure out why it is missing it seems like you could just send it all to the printer and voila…lots of boring reading but there may be a few jems in there.

Ok a little snark…so if the print method doesn’t work maybe we can just get one of those “data mining” programs (like the CIA or whoever did TALON) to go through the email archives… ya know look for key word like Karl Rove, US Atty, Flame, Plame, Novak, and so on and so forth. Seems like there may be lots to go through but then again in the interest of justice I am sure many would volunteer to go through it.

In its July 2007 report, the administration cited satisfactory progress with this benchmark because the Ministry of Finance was releasing funds to ministries and provinces. The U.S. Embassy reported that the Ministry of Finance released 25 percent and 10 percent of 2007 capital project and reconstruction budget funds to ministries and provinces, respectively, in the first 5 months of the year. However, funding releases are not expenditures and may not be a reliable indicator of future spending by ministries and provinces. The administration’s report noted that capacity constraints and security problems may affect Iraq’s ability to accelerate its spending and procurement activities.

GAO to Congress, the Bushies are Spinnnnnning like crazy.

Similarly, the central government lacks the mechanisms to spend money allocated for reconstruction. Since a lot of this would be lost or stolen anyway, it leaves me with the impression that it can’t even steal effectively.

In other words, the Administration went to the Iraqi government, said, “we’d like to give you a passing grade on this issue, so tell us what we want to hear.” And voila! Instant propaganda, all ready and packaged to persuade the American people to dump billions more into this money sinkhole of a war.

Hi EW. Great explanation of how propoganda works!

I’m still hoping that someone’s words will put them all behind bars.

AGAG’s, TurdBlossom’s, Addington’s, Yoo’s, Bybee’s, Meir’s,… ad nauseum… At least one, anyone…???

Of course, we know the fiscal conservatives will spontaneously re-appear around mid-January, 2009.