White House Balks at E-Mail Search
 
Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:42:59 -0500 (CDT)


The White House told a federal court that searching individual
computers for allegedly lost e-mails about the Iraq invasion and
the outing of a covert CIA officer would be too costly and too
time-consuming. The hard drives of many older computers have already
been destroyed, said a senior aide to President Bush.

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