Sometimes the amount of news out there can be overwhelming. Election news, national news and of course all the scandals that surround the Bush Administration just barrel out of the Internets at an incredible pace. It is such a deluge that from time to time you can forget certain things that have gone on in the last few years. You know, things like millions of missing emails at the White House. And I couldn't even imagine (or stomach) working there, poor Tony Fratto forgets about the scandals too, even when he's talking about them to the press.
From The White House:
Q Tony, on the subject, could you address the missing White House emails and the law suit? It is a subject of reports this morning. Are there in fact the emails missing? What's the likelihood of their recovery versus the --
MR. FRATTO: I think our review of this, and you saw the court filing on this, and our declaration in response to the judge's questions -- I think to the best of what all the analysis we've been able to do, we have absolutely no reason to believe that any emails are missing; there's no evidence of that. There's no -- we tried to reconstruct some of the work that went into a chart that was entered into court records and could not replicate that or could not authenticate the correctness of the data in that chart. And from everything that we can tell, our analysis of our backup systems, we have no reason to believe that any email at all are missing.
Q So where are they?
MR. FRATTO: Where are what?
Classic.
Thankfully there are competent people in government, people like Rep. Henry Waxman (my old Congressman!) who is still up on the case and is going to start hearings again into "Email-Gate" in the middle of next month. You know it is a bad sign when White House employees tell you one thing in September and what Tony Fratto said yesterday is a completely different story.
It is way past time to get the truth out of people like Fratto.
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