Technicians have recovered 22 million missing emails from the Bush Administration. The two private organizations, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive, which had earlier sued over the loss the emails, made the announcement on Monday.
The lawsuits were filed against the Executive Office of the President in 2007, and are now considered "settled." The settlement, the missing emails, and the additional searches are just the latest development in the controversy surrounding the failure by the Bush White House to install a properly working electronic record keeping system, seemingly losing a number of emails from a conspicuous period: the CIA Leak cover-up timeframe.
However, the general public might not see any of the e-mails for a long time; they will now go through the National Archives normal process for releasing presidential and agency records. Presidential records of the Bush administration won't be available until 2014 at the earliest.
The head of one of the groups, Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, says the discovery confirms that the Bush administration "lied when they said no e-mails were missing." The e-mails date from 2003 to 2005. They had been "mislabeled and effectively lost," according to the NSA. The National Security Archive is a research group based at George Washington University.
The recovered e-mails were located over the past year by White House contractors. They will now become part of the archived collection of papers at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Written by Michael Santo
HULIQ.com
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