Meanwhile, here's the latest iteration of something nobody cares about

[solarbird]

I hate to link to DailyKOS, but it's now admitted - not alleged, admitted - that the White House deleted literally millions of pieces of email that were supposed to be preserved, and dismantled - intentionally - the archiving system, and recorded over the tape backups of mail servers, which would have been incomplete, but would have been better. Here's the press release from an organisation suing over all this:

The deletion of millions of email beginning in March 2003 coupled with the White House’s destruction of back-up copies of those deleted email mean that there are no back-up copies of emails deleted during the period March 2003 through October 2003. The significance of this time-period cannot be overstated: the U.S. went to war with Iraq, top White House officials leaked the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson and the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into their actions.

[...]

Anne Weismann, chief counsel to CREW, said today, “With this new filing, the White House has admitted that although it has long known about the missing emails, it did nothing to recover them, or discover how and why they went missing in the first place. The missing emails are important historical records that belong not to the Bush administration, but to the American people. As a result, the public deserves a full accounting and hopefully, now that the matter is before a federal court, we will get one.”

We'll see about that last bit. So far, Congress isn't even pressing contempt charges against refusal to submit to subpoena. (Remember that? Harriet Miers, Joshua Bolten? Subpoenaed by Congress, ordered by Mr. Bush not to show up, and didn't? Just plain refused to appear? And Congress did... nothing?) Refusal to keep and present records and evidence is much less of an insult, though much worse in reality.

I'm not sure why I'm posting this, other than I saw jwz mention it, and immediately thought of the ignored subpoenas sitting around, unenforced.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

That's at least as much a smoking gun as the Missing Eight Minutes. If we'd discovered this two years ago we could've impeached the Scooter Skater.

*sigh*

You keep posting your truth, you hear? Short of bloodshed that's all we've got left right now. You're gonna ask, why bother? Tell it to Vaclav Havel. It matters.

These s.o.b.'s will get theirs, sure as you're born; I've seen karma happen too many times for me not to believe in it.

And if it's up to us to bring some balance back
Let it not be said it's courage that we lack

Cry freedom! We have nothing but this day...
Cry Freedom We have nothing but our chains – to lose! (http://www.christopherbingham.com/freedom.html)
    -- gaiaconsort

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Politically it's the absolute right move. The Republicans say "oops!", the Democrats will fume and maybe hold some hearings leading to no real action, maybe a few judges will issue sternly worded rebukes, but in the end the fallout will be far smaller than if those emails were exposed to the light of day.

[solarbird]

I'd be surprised if they do so much as hold hearings. After all, wouldn't want to interfere in a court matter.

[brombear.livejournal.com]

Yanno...I'm starting to really get the feeling that we can no longer impeach anyone from our government, or take legal action against them for anything they do in office, since they can convieniently claim one thing or another to hold them blameless, or mess things up in court until it's no longer in the media eye.

[solarbird]

Or, in the case of pending retroactive immunity for the telecommunications industry's violations of spying law against American citizens, prevent the court system from being available entirely. Not to mention the savaging of habeas corpus.