Laws are for other people

It’s becom­ing more and more obvi­ous that the Bush White House is in vio­la­tion of Fed­eral law regard­ing email reten­tion. As the inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues, it’s been revealed that an upgrade from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook broke their exist­ing backup sys­tem. The solu­tion: man­u­ally sav­ing emails in .pst files scat­tered among the var­i­ous servers. This resulted in at least five mil­lion e-mails being lost between 2003 and 2005. Per­ma­nently lost. Given the amount of time left in the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, it’s unlikely there will be any consequences.

Com­pared to the dam­age to the Con­sti­tu­tion and Bill of Rights lost emails seem fairly minor, but it’s just another exam­ple of how Bush and his cronies con­sider them­selves above the law.

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