White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed

wanderindiana brings us an update on the White House missing emails mess, which we have discussed before. It seems the hard drives of many White House computers are gone beyond the possibility of recovery. Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy? "Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed."

what a bloody coincidence !!!

[unity100]

this administration will go down in history as "administration of coincidences". coincidences they need happening at the exact nick of time.

Alternatives to the hard drives

[Average]

While the hard drives are destroyed, it shouldn't be too hard to determine what was on them. Recovering data is exactly why the administration has been so adamantly for "alternative interrogation techniques".

Data not lost

[boombasticman]

Ask the chinese crackers! They would probably have a backup of the lost whitehouse mails.

Re:No it is not usual

[Falstius]

If there were justice to be had, it would be in the form of "demoting" our commander-in-chief down to a foot-soldier, put a rifle in his hand and let HIM fight his damned war in person.

I don't have anything to add, I just felt that that comment needed to be posted again. As a back up, just in case the hard drive was destroyed.

Re:Not really the point

[sconeu]

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What works best for hanging things on tetrahedral walls?