Mother Jones - Comments for "More Answers in the Missing Email Caper"

In a civil case, a judge can allow the jury to question a document-destroying party's intentions. For example, judges in certain cases will tell jurors they should assume missing documents are harmful simply because they were destroyedeven if they never see the contents.

According to the investigations Andersen partner David Duncan allegedly headed an effort to destroy documents related to Enron after learning the Securities and Exchange Commission had requested financial records from the company.

The average office shredder does nothing to alter the computers where the vast majority of those paper documents originated.

Living in Florida there was an urgent need of shredder in the office so I called up the saleman who told me there was No sales tax on purchases delivered out of California! 10 year warranty on cutting heads & 1 year warranty on mechanical parts (parts only)!

The saleman told me from whom I bought the shredder. All office shredders roll on casters for convenient sharing among offices. Every shredder model has a 10-year warranty on cutting heads and can take staples and paper clips which saves office stationary too.

Working and maintaining security throughout the office. I Placed shredder next to the copier or printer, these shredder models will stop information leak before it starts.

Working for government department where each and every word is confidential. Knowing that your shredded documents cannot be reassembled and that your confidential information is safe is worth every cent of the cost of a paper shredder

I would think by now it would be obvious to everyone that King George is accountable to no one, except maybe the CIA.

The joke is on America, or at least half of us. After getting away with so much over the past seven years, why would the administration change anything? They are now in the home strectch, prime time for stealing with a known pardon in the works. Anyone that voted for this man should have to do 100 hrs of community service for every month this ass has been in office. Several billion free hrs of cleanup is a good start.

Only robotic people who are limited to seeing in two-dimensions - that is, with no life or worldview beyond the now-outdated two-party system - would think to criticize New York Senator Schumer for taking a needed stand against terrorism and the FAA ineptitude that continues to allow it in the door. Regardless of anyone's sheep-like intention to be a good party man (or woman), this latest act of extreme FAA malfeasance, transcends party lines, and desecrates our American flag.

It is an outrageous abomination that Bobby Sturgell and his FAA cannot even bother to coordinate with other federal agencies like the TSA and the USDOT so as: (A) to ensure that those that would harm our country do not even enter, much less be trained at and matriculate from, FAA-certified flight schools; (B) to adequately ensure that those that would harm our country cannot in any way gain entry to, much less work for, FAA-certified aircraft repair facilities worldwide which may work on fuel-laden, passenger-filled aircraft bound for the USA, as discussed at the February 29, 2008 Senate Commerce Committee hearing at which Sturgell and USDOT head Mary Peters testified, now available on the Internet; (C) to make absolutely sure that those that would harm our country be required to spend at least more time than the perfunctory 18 seconds through the TSA cordon at Newark Liberty International Airport as passengers have recently experienced at EWR, as reported by the press this week.

Bobby Sturgell is a harmful and dangerous individual whose malice and incompetence must be summarily rejected by the further outcry of the American people. Bobby Sturgell, worse yet, has now demonstrated himself to be an arrogant threat to OUR national security. Bobby Sturgell MUST be ousted from office as current Acting Head of the FAA. It is abundantly clear that he is ONLY acting; and for that matter, he is a bad actor. An awful one, in fact.

Moreover, Bobby Sturgell is a liar who has already perjured himself repeatedly to save his own proverbial reptilian skin, and to protect solely the interests of the monied aeromercantile complex for which Sturgell regularly shills.

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
"Quiet Rockland"

At least it will help us forget the past 8 years faster. History will want to bury this era because it was so embarrassing.

In the least, losing so many emails should be considered a major security breach. Maybe the NSA has copies they can produce.

"I have to agree, this has nothing to do with stupidity."

Stupidity has always been a defense and it always fails.

If stupidity was a defense our prisons would have half the population.

Even ignorance of the law is no excuse.

These are the guys OUR tax dollars pay. We elect their bosses but they work for us.

The wholesale loss of emails or any other document is a crime against our interests.

Heads should roll. (starting at the top)

I have to agree, this has nothing to do with stupidity.

Anyone who wanted to could buy off the shelf e-mail storage software, get a server and a techie, and be up and running in a few months.

They didn't want that. They are delaying and delaying, changing their story on purpose. The part about allowing anyone to delete or modify past e-mail is a red flag if I ever saw one. They will never, I repeat never, turn anything over, and neither will the RNC, without a police seizure of the evidence.

The media keep reporting this in terms of a "problem" with the White House e-mail archiving system. There was no "problem." BushCo replaced the system Clinton had installed with one that, in the words of McDermott, the former senior official in the office of the Chief WH Information Officer, allowed anyone on the WH network to access, modify, and potentially erase any e-mail record. The Bush-Cheney-Rove system worked perfectly for an administration trying to hide as much as possible. So, NYT, WashPost, CNN, et al.,please stop referring to this as a "problem" with the system.

And, will someone please find (or will some former WH employee with any semblance of a moral conscience please produce) the memo that told administration employees how to erase or modify e-mails. I'm sure the tech guys gave instructions to the neophytes on how to hide the incriminating stuff.