U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the White House from destroying back-up copies of millions of deleted emails.
“Today’s order is an important and necessary first step toward restoring and preserving for the public all the records of this administration, not just those self-selected for preservation by an administration committed more to secrecy than compliance with the law,” Anne Weismann, CREW’s Chief Counsel, said.
So, which do you think? Do the politicians running our government need secrecy to protect our security – or to cover their buns from criminal prosecution?
“Do the politicians running our government need secrecy to protect our security – or to cover their buns from criminal prosecution?”
Do you really need to ask that question? Har!
If this is “an administration committed more to secrecy than compliance with law”, what makes anyone think they’re going to comply with this temporary restraining order?
If they really are most interested in covering their buns from criminal prosecution, I doubt a temporary restraining order is going to have any impact on them at all.
Now that I think about it, if they’re going to arbitrarily detain people without charges and torture them, I doubt a piece of paper signed by a judge or anyone else is going to have much impact on their consciousnesses.
Find it funny that corporations are required to do this for compliance, yet, a goverment isn’t.
I think, it should be preserved for all time. So future generations can see the whole picture, not just an artist’s interpretation.
What e-mails?
Good question What e-mails are these? If these are actual government work e-mails, ok, but if it’s emails that they sent on party-issued laptops, that’s another thing. Those laptops were issued to keep them legal and separate from government work, and the Democrats shouldn’t be able to subpoena Republican political e-mails.
If it’s the government e-mails, then go get em. I wish there were better precedent than the Democrats’ ignoring the Clinton administrations mass deletions of e-mails asked for in a court order.
Since when has the Bush Administration respected a court order?
I think we need a special prosecutor to investigate the five million erased Bush emails.
I mean, if Congress could spend WEEKS having hearing over the Clinton’s Christmas card list, we simply must investgate why Bush erased the emails and try to recover them.
>>I think we need a special prosecutor to investigate the five
>>million erased Bush emails.
I’d be satisfied if he would just admit what that “rectangular object” was that he had under his jacket at the debates.
It should be mentioned that this is merely a political move be a group thats still upset over the ridiculous Plame-Gate non-story in which the Bush administration was accused to leaking information when in reality it was one of Bush’s more vocal critics, Richard Armitage.
Why don’t they just ask the NSA to dig up the e-mails? They have had a direct fiber backbone splitter from AT&T for years. The White House of course is playing dumb on this one.
You guys don’t really think the Dick Cheney goes all the way down to some secluded Texas ranch, just to shot lawyers in the face? That’s where he can have all his “off-the-record” conferences and deals at. So the idea that somehow the administration is going to get caught in their emails, is a joke! Whatever is in those, will be trivial by comparison to what’s really being done. These guys don’t believe in email, any more than the Mafia does. And for the very same reasons.
I’d rather have a special prosecutor to investigate the plane crash after 9/11 in New York, and whether Flight 93 was shot down by the President.
#12.- And here I was thinking that I was the only one in america who had that idea. Yeah, you have to wonder if they downed it by heatseeker, and then claimed the highjackers did it? But it’s not likely we’ll ever know the truth, if that’s the case. And the pro-Administration newsreporters wouldn’t even dare to formulate it as a question. The whole thing got turned into this “heroic sacritice” story. So suggesting anything else would be seen as degrading their heroism, you see. Though this didn’t stop certain news services with running that bogus story, years back, about the Navy shooting down that New York to Paris flight. They needed that wild ass speculation, to fend off the law suits again Boeing. Until after their merger deal was a lock. Only then did the NTSB finally put that stupid missile theory to bed. So how come there’s no “anti-aircraft missile” theory with Flight 93. Because they don’t want their to be one. It just convenient crashed in the middle of a forest, away for everything else, never having reach the White House, which was probably its target. But they won’t even confirm that!