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It’s the equivalent of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration filling brick ovens with filing cabinets full of Vietnam War memos and letters and vaporising it all. Digital letters and memos are so much easier to disappear.

There may well be international criminal charges and war crimes trials for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, once they’re gone from the White House, but their faithful and faithfully compromised lackeys don’t intend to make it easy. Too many have far too much to hide :

The Bush administration has not found disaster recovery files for White House e-mails from a three-month time period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of Iraq may never be recovered.

The White House chief information officer, Theresa Payton, said in a sworn declaration that the White House has identified more than 400 computer backup tapes from March through September of 2003 but that the earliest recorded file was dated May 23 of that year.

That period was one of the most crucial of the Bush presidency. The United States launched the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, and President Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1.

Two federal statutes require presidential communications, including e-mails involving senior White House aides, to be preserved for the nation’s historical record. The White House’s electronic archiving system has come under scrutiny from Democrats who allege that nearly 500 days’ worth of White House e-mails from 2003 to 2005 may be missing.

A question worth asking is whether the storage systems for Bush White House digital records were ever intended to preserve the true record of communications between senior officials during the launching of the War On Iraq. Why would they want records kept of what they knew was an illegal invasion and occupation?

If all digital traces of a period of communication between, say, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, has now been disappeared, then it never happened.

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