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Date: September 1, 2007 9:25:45 PM PDT
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Subject: E-Mails "Lost" -- White House Refuses to Identify Private
Contractor Archiving
Bush E-Mail Mystery Deepens:
White House Won't Name Tech Contractor
August 31, 2007 11:20 AM
Justin Rood Reports:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/bush-e-mail-mys.html
The White House will not identify a private company which appears
to be involved in the disappearance of potentially millions of
White House e-mails.
The company was responsible for reviewing and archiving White House
e-mails, a White House official told congressional staff in May,
according to a letter yesterday from House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Congressional
investigators asked then for the name of the company and "have
repeatedly requested" the information since then, according to Waxman.
They are still waiting for an answer, the chairman wrote to White
House counsel Fred Fielding. Waxman asked the White House to come
up with the company's name by Sept. 10.
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel declined to tell the Blotter on
ABCNews.com the company's name or explain why the White House would
not provide it to Congress.
"We are reviewing Rep. Waxman's letter and will respond
expeditiously," Stanzel said in an e-mailed statement.
According to the White House, as many as five million e-mails may
not have been properly archived and may be lost forever, in
apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act. The post-
Watergate law states that communications relating to official
activity in the offices of the president and vice president are
owned by the American public and cannot be destroyed.
The unnamed firm "was responsible for the daily audits of the e-
mail system and the e-mail archiving process," Waxman said a White
House briefer had attested in a May meeting.
The firm worked for the Information Assurance Directorate, under
the White House chief information officer, Waxman said he was told.
In addition to requesting the firm's name, Waxman's staff has also
asked to see a White House report which detailed the days on which
few or no e-mails were archived; the White House has been similarly
unresponsive to that request, Waxman charged, and asked it provide
the document by Sept. 10 as well.
User Comments
As someone who worked in the tech industry for many years, the idea
that millions of offical government emails would somehow be "lost
forever" is ridiculous. No amount of gross incompetence can explain
the meticulous, deliberate, and repeated steps needed to erase data
which is copied or "mirrored" in real time onto multiple servers
located in different geographic locations. Archived files are
further protected by off-site and offline storage separate again
from all of the above.
The odds of all these databases being "accidentally erased" are
less than zero by multiple decimal points.
Posted by: h5mind | Aug 31, 2007 11:56:42 AM
Think the contractor might be Inforeliance. Found resume of someone
who helped with Sharepoint setup in White House. Anyone know
current email setup there?
Posted by: L. Katz | Aug 31, 2007 1:44:44 PM
Rudy Giuliani also made all his administrative records disappear
after he stepped down as mayor: claimed he was having them all
archived privately by some outside vendor.
Posted by: Rumple Stiltskin | Sep 1, 2007 10:28:27 AM
the e-mail contractor can be located via the Dept of Defense Info
sites. The primary responsibility for the "servers" and the
"redunancies" are the 1111th IT US Army Communication in Huachuca,
Arizona..but you should also have a complete back up at Raven Rock
in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. There may be a "google" server
but according to my information the US Army 1111th Information
Command/US Army Corps of Engineers may actually run a "mirror" site
to "Google or Yahoo or AOL". In fact, if my research is correct
AT&T can't access the "e-mail intercepts" from HOMELAND SECURITY
without going through the Government info main server connected
with the 1111th.
Posted by: zorro | Sep 1, 2007 5:03:24 PM
Gee, how many replies to this story and only one mentions that it
will turn out to be an Israeli company?
Americans are more ill-informed than I thought.
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