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By Jill R. Aitoro jaitoro@govexec.com January 10, 2008
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    If you righties don't think this is wrong on ALL levels ask yourself how you would have felt and what you would have done if Clinton had the same record keeping "problems."

    Both Cheney and Bush should be in jail for war crimes and impeached.

    And to liken the problem to stone tablets is ludicrous at best.

    Robert Crush Posted January 17, 2008 10:54 AM
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    Impeach them.

    Impeach them, now!

    Cathexis Posted January 17, 2008 10:38 AM
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    Strangely, the White House can't account for between 5 and 10 million emails, sent between March and October of 2003. I wonder if there's any interesting information that might turn up from a review of memoranda from that period. When we were invading Iraq, and Valerie Plame's identity was being handed over to reporters.

    Meh. Doesn't matter. Anything else that turns up missing will probably be excused, too. It was probably destroyed in that mysterious fire in Cheney's office a few weeks ago.

    You really don't have to wear a lot of tinfoil before you start seeing conspiracies with this administration, do you?

    Bill Posted January 17, 2008 10:35 AM
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    Good luck obtaining any records from this administration. If they did agree, which they haven't in almost every case they been ask to,the documents would be minimal and only those given would help to shape an untrue history.

    Linda Posted January 16, 2008 8:18 AM
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    All modern record-keeping media are prone to failure on a scale of about five years to about two or three centuries. All ancient records of which we are aware are set in stone. Stone is the answer. I just hope that NARA doesn't get carried away and cause a stone shortage.

    To adress near-term (millenial) storage problems, NARA should train a cadre of griots.

    Jay Dee Are Posted January 14, 2008 2:49 PM

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