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First Time for Everything: White House admits “We screwed up”

The controversy surrounding Karl Rove’s missing e-mails ballooned today when it was revealed that the White House may have deleted as many as 5 MILLION e-mails from their servers.

“We screwed up, and we’re trying to fix it,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.

The Democratic response:

“You can’t erase e-mails, not today,” said Leahy, D-Vermont. “They’ve gone through too many servers. They can’t say they’ve been lost. That’s like saying, ‘The dog ate my homework.’ ”

Leahy said the e-mails would have remained on party or campaign computer servers, and he compared the situation to the famous 18½-minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes.

Via CNN

Comments (6)

1

Don't forget the 18-day gap in the Bushies deciding to fire people and then suddenly talking about it - there are MORE GAPS out there, and Red Bushies are quite willing to Lie more about it.

God hates Liars. Satan loves them.

Posted by Will in Seattle | April 13, 2007 6:32 PM
2

They have proven more than willing to plead incompetence when the alternative is admitting to serious crimes.

Posted by flamingbanjo | April 13, 2007 7:33 PM
3

When they admit they screwed up, you know it was not a screw up.

When they don't admit they screwed up, it is possible that they might have screwed up, but then again maybe they really didn't screw up and did it on purpose.

Posted by Jude Fawley | April 13, 2007 7:50 PM
4

Leahy ought to contact the RIAA, and get some of their geniuses on the case: anybody who can find a five year-old Nickelback Mp3 illegally downloaded from a P2P server on some little old lady's computer in Grand Rapids or wherever should have no trouble tracking down 5 mm RNC-addressed email messages.

Posted by COMTE | April 13, 2007 8:36 PM
5

The RIAA doesn't employ geniuses, nor is a genius required: forensic data recovery wouldn't be especially difficult in this case. Leahy is correct (surprisingly, considering this is a lawmaker talking about technology).

Posted by Joe | April 14, 2007 10:17 AM
6

So what he's saying is that one of the innernet tubes might be still be clogged with Karl Rove's emails?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | April 14, 2007 6:49 PM

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