Missing Bush administration emails (22 million of 'em) found

"The dog apparently mislabeled my homework." That's the bogus excuse I'll be using next, now that we know some 22 million emails which vanished during the George W. Bush administration were just "apparently mislabeled." Don't expect to eyeball their contents until 2014. More: Wired News, AP, Wonkette.

• [simonbarsinister]

  It took this long to find the “mislabeled” emails because they had to find and remove any particularly damaging ones.

  There will be nothing important found in these.

• [stymied]

  Quoting NPR story:

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121452535

  “The process will be painfully slow. The emails are all jumbled together, and it could take a few years to sort them out.”

  “The 94 days to be examined produced a tiny fraction of potentially recoverable emails. The total is thought to surpass 22 million. Recovering everything would cost too much.”

  It would? I thought the Executive branch granted to itself (and still maintains) unlimited eavesdropping privileges on a million billion phone calls being made every day by American citizens, because with its advanced sooper-seekrit CIA algorithms it can sniff out the barest whiff of an incriminating phrase, in real time, so we can Catch The Terrorists(tm).

  Yet somehow they cannot grok 22 million emails? Because they are “jumbled”? That will take them years? That seems strange.

• [enkiv2]

  /me puts up the WikiLeaks bat-signal

• [tim]

  Publish them on an obscure website with an edgy hacker-ish name, claim that there are emails that prove the there is no global climate change buried in there and watch the feeding frenzy. In no time at all there will be astute, carefully reasoned analyses of the messages. No, wait, what am I saying…

• [Ian70]

  because by 2014 it will all still actually matter. Right.

• [bjacques]

  dox plox

• [Stefan Jones]

  Please, please, let there be plentiful evidence of First Degree Pooch Screwing.

  • [phisrow]

    Short of the revelation that Bush really enjoyed homosexual baby sodomy, can you think of anything egregious enough to change the evaluation of his administration?

    The mixture of crime and incompetence that is already public knowledge is already more than enough to sink it in the estimation of the reasonable(though it seems to have resulted in precisely zero consequences). I don’t know what it would take to sway the true believers.

    • [IronEdithKidd]

      To reverse the authoritarian apologist’s decree: if they have something to hide, then perhaps they have something to worry about.

      If there’s evidence in those emails that the econopolypse of ’08 was engineered, it could be enough to finally mobilize the pitchforks and torches.

      • [michael holloway]

        OR

        “Why should you worry if you have nothing to hide?”

        —> If you hide believe me, you’d better worry!

        Not to late for a treason trial.

• [hawkd_sf]

  1. No matter what’s in those emails, right-wingers will twist and deny all of it.

  2. Given the overall civil-rights negative douchocracy that the Obama administration has turned into, can any sane, intelligent person ever really think that the public will see any of these emails?

• [Anonymous]

  nothing will be found.. all the important emails were sent through other domains managed by Mike Connell (google him), he is conveniently gone now. so we will never really know what was going on.