Obama Administration Cleaning Up Bush Email Scandal Mess
Remember just after Obama was inaugurated? Yes, the day after…when liberals were screaming that Obama was continuing Bush policies with DoJ obstructionism. Liberals were justifiably upset that the “Obama DoJ” dismissed a lawsuit filed by CREW and the National Security Archives regarding their attempt to retrieve over 22 million “lost “ Bush era emails.
However, it turns out, that decision had been made before Obama took office. in fact, the original dismissal was made under the Bush DoJ and was supposed to be released the week before Obama took office, but suffered some "delay" (perhaps like Laura Bush’s suddenly unavailable guest home).
Good news for liberals; it's OK to support your President again, we got it all wrong! But believe us NEXT time when we tell you that he is Bush...because next time...It will be true! Series.
The good old right wing knows how to play the left's principled concern over justice, truth and transparency! Oh, I’m sure the unplanned delay of the announcement wasn’t politically motivated. I mean, just because everything else in the Bush Justice Dept was politicized is no reason to assume anything. Sure, many of the same people who were illegally appointed under Bush are still in the DoJ. But I’m still sure it’s all Obama’s fault.
Fortunately for justice, it turns out that both parties (CREW and NSA) were able to re-file after Obama took office and resolve the problem to their satisfaction.
In spite of the federal law to maintain an email archival system and the Clinton administration’s implementation of just such an archival system, the Bush administration couldn’t keep track of those pesky things. Emails got mislabeled, misfiled, and sometimes just vanished! I’m shocked, I tell ya’. Shocked.
Maybe it’s because the Bush administration disconnected the Clinton archival system around 2003. I hear those things need to be on to actually work. I''m sure it was just an accident. I’m thinkin’ you don’t want to hunt or email with The Dick, cuz he seems super accident prone and forgetful.
The good news is that the Bush emails which were “lost” during the period of March 2003-Oct 2005 have been restored and the Obama administration has agreed to restore another 33 days worth of missing Bush era emails. That whooshing noise you just heard was the collective sphincter tightening of Chimp, Rotund One, and The Dick. Gee, I hope they have good healthcare.
I’m sure teabaggers everywhere are shouting that anyone can lose an email or 22 million and this partisan research must stop! But according to Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to the National Security Archives, case law clearly states that every email should be saved and archived.
More:
http://www.politicususa.com/en/node/7375 
