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How the White House lost 5 million e-mails
Officials dropped the Clinton administration's automatic archiving system in favor of a fully manual plan.
Farhad Manjoo [2008-04-30]

  • There was nothing "inadvertent" about it

    The Bush Administration deliberately got rid of automatic email archiving because they didn't want any nosy investigators snooping into the executive branch's business. They could then blame "human error" for any missing email messages when it was anything but.

    -- Nancy Ott
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    Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:14 AM
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