Opinion: White House e-mails lost? What a joke!

White House emails

What an absolutely idiotic rant this was. Steve, you don't understand the difference between government email retention requirements and private email retention requirements. If the emails in question had been on a govt system, I'd be inclined to say something's fishy. There are specific retention requirements for those. But this was a private system, using whatever server/provider they were using, and, IANAL, but I don't believe there is any requirement on retaining those emails. If I delete an email from my system here at home, as far as I'm concerned, it's gone. I have no requirement to keep anything. I'm sure it can somehow be recovered, but it's not just a matter of going into the server and saying presto!
Next time you want to go off on an anti-Bush rant, do it on something you know about.

Response to Whitehouse E-mails

The operative word in your response is "Home." The staffers were not at home. The Bushies have trouble differentiating between political and official. From what I've read it is all the same to them. That aside, I don't know about your office, but I have issues with them using government (i.e. my tax dollars) computers for political activity. Even if it was not using their official e-mail addy - it was going through the official government (my tax dollars) servers.

Should I remind you of the over the top tirades from the far right wingnuts over anything out of line the Clintons did for 8 years? Their mistakes are pale in comparison. The current administration has taken misappropriation to whole new levels.

Great job, Steve and great suggestions.