White House claims innocence
from the Not-everything-is-a-conspiracy dept
The White House is claiming it was simply an accident that it lost a good chunk of email sent from outside parties. I tend to think that they wouldn't be lying about something like this. First and foremost nothing all that earth-shattering would be sent through standard email, with no encryption or security to begin with. Let's face it, it's not rocket science to monitor an unsecured stream of data, regardless of where it's going. Second, shit happens. I lost an entire volume of data yesterday. Does that mean I was trying to hide something from the CNET executives? Doubtful...
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Coverup
John Deutch, former director of the CIA, regularly kept Top Secret data on his laptop, which he also used to connect to the internet.
And they're not even looking for Top Secret data. It would be enough to find inconsisties in their stories. That alone could result in perjury charges for many of the principals. Included in the missing email is, supposedly, correspondence between Miss Lewinsky and Miss Curie.
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