When asked yesterday about a previous statement by White House spokeswoman Dana Perino that some White House e-mails are indeed missing, Fratto demurred. “I’m not sure what was said on that,” he said. “I could tell you today, though, that we have no evidence and we have no way of showing that any e-mail at all are missing.”

Hesitate… Obfuscate… Deny… Fratto does his job well.

I don’t understand why the media isn’t eating this story up. I don’t understand why congress (as a whole) isn’t all over this. I don’t understand why the 2008 presidential contenders aren’t railing against this. It’s a direct slap in the face for government accountability, transparency and openness - which is a requirement of our government.

Are we to believe anything will come of this though? Nope. This lying, thieving and power-grabbing republican bus will continue it’s journey onwards to a more kingdom-like America.

White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone

The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.

The 2005 study — whose credibility the White House attacked this week — identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).
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The White House is required by law to preserve e-mails considered presidential or federal records, and it is the target of several lawsuits seeking information about missing data and efforts to preserve electronic communications.

The internal study found that for Bush’s executive office, no e-mails were archived on 12 separate days between December 2003 and February 2004, Waxman said. Vice President Cheney’s office showed no electronic messages on 16 occasions from September 2003 to May 2005.