JLF: Bush's 11th Hour Manure Dump
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
We've had explosion after explosion during the Bush administration's run... including a fake war, outing a CIA agent, Katrina, walking away from Kyoto Protocol, ignoring the environment, a boom in energy company profits and prices, 9/11, two misled wars, approved torture, housing market collapse, looooooots of vacation time, government spying on its citizens... and on and on.Well, the past 7.67 years might seem like a dream compared to the next 0.33 years. Upcoming, we have the 11th hour manure dump.
Every President has a rash of decisions at the end of their term where they say, "and, unfortunately, since we are out of here soon, there's nothing we can do about it." The President also, on the last day, passes through a collection of pardons that make you punch the wall in fury. Clinton had 140 of these on his last day, and I was full HAWT about a lot of them.
This last stretch just drives me nuts. NUTS. HAWT.
Well, Bush's sh*t-tacular has begun.
The Associated Press is reporting that they have been given a White House internal memo dated June 20th. This memo says the White House has lost up to 225 DAYS of email... 225 DAYS. It mentions that the administration was going to allow 3rd parties to bid on resurrecting the 35,000 disaster recovery backup tapes dating back to October 2003. What happened in this 2003 window? Growing violence in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the criminal probe into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
This missing email fiasco has been a roller coaster ride. It started in 2005 when estimates went to 473 days of email over 20 months. In this June memo, the days max at 225, but the minimum in this range is 25. The main reason this is insane? It'd be impossible for a 3rd party to bid on this project. "The days could be 25... orrrrrrrr... 2,500% that. Have at it. Pick a cost."
On Wednesday, the White House said the memo was "outdated and seriously inaccurate." It said nothing more about it, not even revealing if they had hired a contractor for the work yet.
Believe me, there have been some emails I've wanted to permanently erase... like drunken poems sent out to exes where I tell them they're the love oasis in a desert of cacti dripping juice from my broken heart. Or when I wrote to Jenny Craig telling her I exploded to 453 points one day. But to permanently delete emails? That means taking them away from the source and the target. Oh, and all the servers in between. And the repeaters. Oh, and the backups to the servers. Oh, and the backups to the source and target. Oh, and the backups to the repeaters.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't happen by accident. You don't hit one delete button. You hit like twenty of them in different areas and computers that are hidden in air-conditioned bowels of the tech department. None of this is a mistake.
As the memo mentions, in not so many words, there is as much chance of this recovery effort being completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office as there are chances of HAWTaction [hot ak-shuh
n] taking off and becoming a cultural phenomenon.
Let's see what else is going to happen in this 11th hour manure dump.
Always your pleasure.
- JLF
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This last stretch just drives me nuts. NUTS. HAWT.
Well, Bush's sh*t-tacular has begun.
The Associated Press is reporting that they have been given a White House internal memo dated June 20th. This memo says the White House has lost up to 225 DAYS of email... 225 DAYS. It mentions that the administration was going to allow 3rd parties to bid on resurrecting the 35,000 disaster recovery backup tapes dating back to October 2003. What happened in this 2003 window? Growing violence in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the criminal probe into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
This missing email fiasco has been a roller coaster ride. It started in 2005 when estimates went to 473 days of email over 20 months. In this June memo, the days max at 225, but the minimum in this range is 25. The main reason this is insane? It'd be impossible for a 3rd party to bid on this project. "The days could be 25... orrrrrrrr... 2,500% that. Have at it. Pick a cost."
On Wednesday, the White House said the memo was "outdated and seriously inaccurate." It said nothing more about it, not even revealing if they had hired a contractor for the work yet.
Believe me, there have been some emails I've wanted to permanently erase... like drunken poems sent out to exes where I tell them they're the love oasis in a desert of cacti dripping juice from my broken heart. Or when I wrote to Jenny Craig telling her I exploded to 453 points one day. But to permanently delete emails? That means taking them away from the source and the target. Oh, and all the servers in between. And the repeaters. Oh, and the backups to the servers. Oh, and the backups to the source and target. Oh, and the backups to the repeaters.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't happen by accident. You don't hit one delete button. You hit like twenty of them in different areas and computers that are hidden in air-conditioned bowels of the tech department. None of this is a mistake.
As the memo mentions, in not so many words, there is as much chance of this recovery effort being completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office as there are chances of HAWTaction [hot ak-shuh
n] taking off and becoming a cultural phenomenon.Let's see what else is going to happen in this 11th hour manure dump.
Always your pleasure.
- JLF
Find me on Facebook.com, and join the HAWTaction.com Reader group. My name there is Johnny LeadFoot (they didn't allow the space).
I think we're going to be able to fertilize Iowa with this manure.