At some point, we as a nation need to all band up and say “okay, enough is enough.” When the number of mysteriously lost emails starts numbering in the millions, it’s a good indication that things have reached outrageous proportions. I might even be willing to forgive a ten thousand emails, but millions?
“The liberal groups CREW and National Security Archive litigate for sport, distort the facts and have consistently tried to create a spooky conspiracy out of standard IT issues,” [Former Bush White House spokesman Scott] Stanzel said in a statement.
The 22 million e-mails “would never have been found but for our lawsuits and pressure from Capitol Hill,” said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for CREW. “It was only then that they did this reanalysis and found as a result that there were 22 million e-mails that they were unable to account for before.”
I’m of the belief that millions of emails going missing isn’t an “IT issue”.
Now keep in mind this is as much an Obama issue as a Bush issue. One of the most maddening traits of Obama’s seems to be a desire to avoid coming across as having a “partisan agenda”, which has manifested in a near refusal to bring Bush-era offenses to the fore. All the old secrecy remains, old records get purged, immunity for old officials. It’s another one of those “change” things.
Also worth noting that CREW does not have a political axe to grind. They’ll go after Republicans and Democrats alike. Look at their list of corrupt Congressmen. Eight Democrats to seven Republicans. As with the Cato Institute, their reports and actions are worth paying attention to, because it isn’t in the interest of pushing this or that party over the other.
