Oops, Did I Just Delete That...?

Yes. They he/they did. But, Bush and his cronies at the GOP have decided "eh... all that email wasn't really very important anyway."

On the other hand, perhaps the missing email is so important that our fearless leaders have decided to engage in a systematic effort not to restore the tapes containing the "lost" email from the White House to the RNC which covered hundreds of days and potentially thousands, maybe millions of email correspondence between 2001 and 2003. Especially important would be any email leading to the run-up of the Iraq war, and/or email that could violate the Hatch Act from Karl Rove and/or other high level White House officials. According to the Washington Post, the RNC has now said it "has no intention of trying to restore the missing White House e-mails."

So much for transparency in government. Needless to say, the Bush Administration not only dismantled the Clinton policy of preserving all official White House correspondence, but it weakened its email system so that anyone (at least up to 2005) could enter the system and actually manipulate existing email messages. How scary is that?!

Both the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have sued the White House Office of Administration to force the back-up, preservation, and/or production of the missing email.

Don't you just think that Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman long for the days of shredders and tapes. After all, it worked for Nixon.