A Different Scandal?

Different, but the same. Now the White House wants us to believe that the missing e-mails from 2002-2004 [the dates seem to move around every time one of their spokesfolks opens his or her mouth] went missing because of a poorly managed and/or executed transition from the old Lotus Notes system to the newer Microsoft Outlook system. Are you kidding me? Even I know that when you are making a transition of that nature you back everything up beforehand just in case things go wrong! Duh! Do they really think we are so stupid? Or are they that incompetent that their IT people didn’t follow IT 101 procedures? Don’t forget that all documents generated within the administration that pertain to running the country are covered by the Presidential Records Act [I don’t know if that’s its correct title, but you get the idea!]. The bottom line is that the nation, America Land of The Free, owns whatever these people write while they are in office. The reason we own it is so later generations, interested parties etc can look at the record and write informed history or analysis.

Those documents belong to the country not the White House.

And these bozos say they simply lost them?

As my father would say: “tosh!”.

We weren’t born yesterday. Hand the stuff over.