Little, lost and innocent

This is the kind of shit that I love -- "Oh, um, we can't find those files. Uh, yeah -- everything in the three months that overlap the invasion of Iraq is missing. Weird, huh?" And they wonder why Americans have a mistrust for our current administration.

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www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-nat-bush-mailmay07,0,5324897.story

White House can't find '03 e-mail files

May 7, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has not found disaster backup files for White House e-mails from a three-month period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of Iraq may be gone.

The White House chief information officer, Theresa Payton, said in a sworn declaration that the earliest recorded file was dated May 23 of that year.

Payton and other officials said that older e-mails could still be contained on other tapes because of the way the files are dated.

Crucial period: The United States launched the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, and President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1.