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E-mails belonging to the Bush administration have reportedly been found, according to media reports Tuesday.
Two groups, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive (NSA), say the e-mails had been mislabeled and effectively lost. They say the 22 million e-mails were found or reconstructed from disaster recovery backup tapes.
CREW said the dates for restoration were chosen based on email volume and external events because there simply was not enough money to restore all the missing emails. In addition, the EOP will continue to provide CREW and the NSA with records documenting the missing e-mail problem, the response of the Bush White House to that problem, and the options the Bush White House considered for preserving electronic records, but inexplicably rejected.
The NSA first sued the Bush White House in 2007 to recover 5 million missing e-mails. CREW revealed in 2008 that the White House had discovered the problem in the fall of 2005. The lawsuits accused the Bush administration and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of taking no action after it was revealed that millions of e-mails went missing from White House computer servers for 2.5 years. The Bush White House also knowingly kept using a broken system to preserve electronic records it is alleged.
"We now know that many poor choices were made during the Bush Administration and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records despite the fact that they were contending with regular subpoenas for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records for the nation's long term historical memory," Meredith Fuchs, the NSA's general counsel, said in a statement.
"We have been briefed on the system in use since the beginning of the Obama Administration and we believe that the system now in use fixes the significant problems with the prior system, including by capturing everything, properly categorizing the e-mails, and preventing unauthorized deletion."
The e-mail, covering a period of 94 days during the Bush administration, will gradually be restored, but it will be 2014 at the earliest before the public sees any of the messages because they must go through the National Archives' process for releasing presidential and agency records.
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A new item was added to the Malaysia Book of Records when a six-year-old boy pulled a Mercedes Benz E class car with four people in it for 120 meters.
New Straits Times, a local daily, reported here on Tuesday that T.Santosperumal, who weighs only 35 kilograms, pulled an estimated 1,990-kilogram car and "passengers" in less than five minutes.
The boy's feat made him the "youngest to pull a car", as recognized by the Malaysia Book of Records.
Interestingly, Malaysian Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department T.Murugiah was one of his "passengers".
The boy was later presented a certificate by Malaysia Book of Records official Josephine Intachat.
From foreign press
E-mails belonging to the Bush administration have reportedly been found, according to media reports Tuesday.
Two groups, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive (NSA), say the e-mails had been mislabeled and effectively lost. They say the 22 million e-mails were found or reconstructed from disaster recovery backup tapes.
CREW said the dates for restoration were chosen based on email volume and external events because there simply was not enough money to restore all the missing emails. In addition, the EOP will continue to provide CREW and the NSA with records documenting the missing e-mail problem, the response of the Bush White House to that problem, and the options the Bush White House considered for preserving electronic records, but inexplicably rejected.
The NSA first sued the Bush White House in 2007 to recover 5 million missing e-mails. CREW revealed in 2008 that the White House had discovered the problem in the fall of 2005. The lawsuits accused the Bush administration and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of taking no action after it was revealed that millions of e-mails went missing from White House computer servers for 2.5 years. The Bush White House also knowingly kept using a broken system to preserve electronic records it is alleged.
"We now know that many poor choices were made during the Bush Administration and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records despite the fact that they were contending with regular subpoenas for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records for the nation's long term historical memory," Meredith Fuchs, the NSA's general counsel, said in a statement.
"We have been briefed on the system in use since the beginning of the Obama Administration and we believe that the system now in use fixes the significant problems with the prior system, including by capturing everything, properly categorizing the e-mails, and preventing unauthorized deletion."
The e-mail, covering a period of 94 days during the Bush administration, will gradually be restored, but it will be 2014 at the earliest before the public sees any of the messages because they must go through the National Archives' process for releasing presidential and agency records.
x x
A new item was added to the Malaysia Book of Records when a six-year-old boy pulled a Mercedes Benz E class car with four people in it for 120 meters.
New Straits Times, a local daily, reported here on Tuesday that T.Santosperumal, who weighs only 35 kilograms, pulled an estimated 1,990-kilogram car and "passengers" in less than five minutes.
The boy's feat made him the "youngest to pull a car", as recognized by the Malaysia Book of Records.
Interestingly, Malaysian Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department T.Murugiah was one of his "passengers".
The boy was later presented a certificate by Malaysia Book of Records official Josephine Intachat.
