Re: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It TossedComputerHard Drives

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:57:16 EDT, Larry Seltzer said:
> All of the data? As far as e-mail goes it appears they had a crappy plan
> to back it up (burning PSTs to CD-ROM), but I'm sure all official data
> was stored on servers. I wouldn't waste a backup on the remaining
> garbage on a hard disk. 

Remember that Col. Oliver North was originally convicted based mostly
on copies of e-mail retrieved from backup tapes.  That lesson was certainly
not lost on the current administration.

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/reagan/chron.txt

Sometimes, you really *do* have to assume evil intent, even if incompetence
would otherwise explain it.
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