MotherJones Blog: White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails
April 6th, 2008MotherJones Blog: White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails
White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails
The White House has responded to a judge’s order asking it to explain why it shouldn’t be required to make copies of all of its hard drives to ensure the recovery of missing emails by claiming that many of the relevant hard drives have been destroyed. You read that correctly: the White House position is “We don’t have to preserve hard drives containing missing email because we already destroyed them.”