Penalties, then.

Right. Who’s gon’a do that?

My bad.
As if I had any more credibility to lose 8-p

At a hearing today concerning the risks posed by the presidential transition to the recovery of millions of missing e-mails from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in the National Security Archive’s lawsuit seeking restoration of those e-mails, the White House acknowledged that it has done little to recover e-mail files from computer workstations and nothing to collect external media storage devices that could hold e-mails. These admissions came despite the issuance of a report and recommendation in April 2008 by a federal magistrate judge calling for the White House to locate and preserve data from the workstations and external media storage devices. Earlier today the court issued an order requiring steps to be taken to secure files from individual computer workstations, memory sticks, zip drives, DVDs and CDs.

“The White House admitted it did nothing to stop people working in the White House from disposing of memory sticks, CDs, DVDs and zip drives that may have been the sole copies of missing e-mails on them,” stated Sheila Shadmand from Jones Day, counsel for the Archive. Ms. Shadmand warned: “We believe our ability to get a complete restoration of the White House record from 2003 to 2005 and evidence of what went wrong has been compromised.”

The Archive’s Director, Tom Blanton noted: “If this kind of irresponsible conduct can take place despite the Executive Office of the President’s obligations under the Federal Records Act and this lawsuit, then perhaps the country needs more oversight of record-keeping in the White House.”

Personally, court order or not, W’s crew doesn’t hand stuff over… they just don’t do it. Doesn’t happen. It’s no more likely than a Ass-dwelling-butt-monkey.

Roger Clemens is black??

When did that transformation happen?

1993, Clinton… arrived to find the White House, West Wing, OEOB and NEOB offices in disarray, but most notably with hard drives absent from all the IBM PS/2 machines that were the standard back then.

I’d like to think that at least a few enterprising reporters would pick up on this kind of info.

(…) the Court has directed the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to search all its computer work stations and has ordered EOP employees to surrender any media in their possession that may contain e-mails from March 2003 to October 2005.

Remember, OVP is not an Agency, or a branch, etc, etc, etc.