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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Analysis Details Missing White House E-mails

A 2005 technical analysis found that up to 1,000 days of e-mails were missing from White House servers during a 2-1/2 year period, amounting to more than 1 million separate e-mail messages, according to statements from a former White House technology manager released today.

Steven McDevitt also said in written answers to questions from a House committee that the White House’s e-mail system was so “primitive” that there was a high risk that data would be lost.

McDevitt, who formerly oversaw many of the White House’s computer systems, said he oversaw a wide-ranging study that found e-mail missing for hundreds of days from January 2003 through August 2005. He also told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that security was so lax that e-mail could be modified by anyone on the computer network until the middle of 2005.

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Somebody should be going to jail.

Lestat on February 26, 2008 at 08:34 pm

I got em at my place and I ain’t given em up.


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Gene on February 26, 2008 at 08:58 pm
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up to 1,000 days of e-mails were missing

That’s not counting all the IMs to chubby interns, either! smile



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Proof on February 26, 2008 at 09:16 pm

Lestat:

Somebody should be going to jail.

Jail time for incompetence?
Our government would shut down.

Whoever the IT person was who set this up should be racked over the coals on this one.

Carrick on February 27, 2008 at 01:12 am
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