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Fred Astaire wrote:Some live to tell their story:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E2DA143FF933A25756C0A96F958260
Fred Astaire wrote:Some live to tell their story:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E2DA143FF933A25756C0A96F958260
seemslikeadream wrote:
The required transfer in four weeks of all of the Bush White House's electronic mail messages and documents to the National Archives has been imperiled by a combination of technical glitches, lawsuits and lagging computer forensic work, according to government officials, historians and lawyers.
The risks that the transfer may be incomplete are also pointed up by a continuing legal battle between a coalition of historians and nonprofit groups over access to Vice President Cheney's records. The coalition is contesting the administration's assertion in federal court this month that he "alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records" and "how his records will be created, maintained, managed, and disposed," without outside challenge or judicial review.
AND:
White House spokesman Scott M. Stanzel said last week that "we are making significant progress in accounting for the e-mail records stored on our computer network." But he declined to say how many e-mails remain missing or to predict how long the recovery will take because the issue is the subject of ongoing litigation.
(Gosh, what timing that the guy who set that all up just died in a fiery small airplane crash! Too bad he won't be any help recovering these now!)
AND:
In the case of the vice president's records, the White House has promised a different federal judge that it will comply with a Nixon-era law requiring the preservation and transfer of all documents related to the vice president's official duties, but the coalition has drafted a filing for the court on Monday that accuses Cheney of subtly seeking to circumscribe the legal definition of what those official duties encompass to such a degree that he will be able to take home or destroy countless documents related to policymaking that historians want to see.
Anne Weisman, the counsel for the plaintiffs, called Cheney's assertion that only those records related to tasks specially assigned by Bush need to be preserved "a loophole . . . large enough to drive truckloads of documents through." It means, she said, that Cheney would not have to surrender documents related to legislation or "advice he gives the president on his own initiative and the influence he has over the president's decisions."
Nordic wrote:Why do I have to come to this nearly-deserted backwater to find out WTF is really going on in the world??
WTF!?
The Mumbai thread is the best source of info probably ANYWHERE regarding that bullshit.
How many people visit this place?
Hey, we're an "elite!"
Grrrrr!
Wouldn't it be just fucking great to take over the airwaves for a little while, like that guy in "They Live", and just tell people the truth for once?
I'm sure the sharp-shooters would put an end to that REAL quick, tho
"Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash"
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Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, December 20, 2008 3:04 PM | permalink
From at-Largely (Larisa Alexandrovna):
200812201504 “Mike Connell set-up the alternate email and communications system for the White House. He was responsible for creating the system that hosted the infamous GWB43.com accounts that Karl Rove and others used. When asked by Congress to provide these emails, the White House said that they were destroyed. But in reality, what Connell is alleged to have done is move these files to other servers after having allegedly scrubbed the files from all “known” Karl Rove accounts.
In addition, I have reason to believe that the alternate accounts were used to communicate with US Attorneys involved in political prosecutions, like that of Don Siegelman. This is what I have been working on to prove for over a year. In fact, it was through following the Siegelman-Rove trail that I found evidence leading to Connell. That is how I became aware of him. Mike was getting ready to talk. He was frightened.”
Graham writes: "Unfortunately, he won’t get to talk. He died in a plane crash yesterday." http://www.atlargely.com/2008/12/one-of ... /#comments
UPDATE: A curious press release: "Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation" (Thanks, Adam!)
(Via Why, That's Delightful) http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com ... ou-go-hmm/ "
Nordic wrote:Why do I have to come to this nearly-deserted backwater to find out WTF is really going on in the world??
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Well, well.
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Published: May 10, 1999
Senator James M. Inhofe made an emergency landing on Saturday after the propeller of the small airplane he was flying fell off.
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