The Break For 12/14/09: Bush Administration 22 Missing Emails Recovered

Big story breaking right now:

Two nonprofit groups say that computer technicians have found 22 million White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush.

The two groups say the electronic messages were previously mislabeled and effectively lost.

An announcement Monday by the two groups is the latest development in a controversy that surrounded the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic recordkeeping system.

As always, Marcy Wheeler goes even farther than the reports:

That list includes almost all of the most suspect dates when email was missing, most notably the period (between September 29 and October 7, 2003) when Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were working on a cover story in Jackson Hole. This is the period, remember, when Libby told Cheney the story he was going to tell the FBI–that he had learned of Plame’s identity from Tim Russert, not from Cheney himself. And it is also the period during which we know Fitzgerald was seeking emails, but did not receive them. (He did receive at least one email, printed out from a hard drive, after the more intense search for emails started in 2005.

Now who knows how much dirt these emails will have, and if they will be even tampered with upon their public release.

Either way, this won't stop the likes of Sean Insanity to blabber uncontrollably in anger about how this current White House is somehow after the previous one.