There was so much that stunk to high heaven, I had forgotten about the millions of emails the Bush administration "lost."
Apparently CREW didn't. We're gonna see 'em. And for some extra candy in the stocking, the White House is throwing in some Cheney goodies, too.
Still, the settlement requires the White House to restore 33 days selected by the plaintiffs, including the timeframe September 30 through October 5, 2003. This period is significant because email messages sent and received on those days were the subject of a subpoena by Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the Plame leak case. Although the Bush White House knew of email archiving problems as early as February 2004, evidence of the problem didn't become obvious outside of the White House until the administration told Fitzgerald that it couldn't locate any emails from the Office of the Vice President on those days.
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