The Bush White House has long had a tendency for e-mails to go "missing" when the courts and Congress go looking for them. In several major cases in recent years, including the Valerie Plame investigation, the US Attorneys scandal, and certain moments during the Iraq War, crucial e-mails have turned up "missing" in White House databases. But at long last (perhaps hoping to fly under the pre-inauguration radar), the Justice Department told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration, after spending more than $10 million, finally located 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.
Government watch groups are still skeptical that everything will be in order, however: "I'll believe it when I see it," the counsel for CREW, Anne Weisman (who sued the administration to demand the preservation of its records) said yesterday. See the full Wapo story here.
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