George Bush

Watchdog Report: Bush Aides Didn't Care About Threat To Emails

Rachel Slajda | August 30, 2010, 9:59AM

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and Former President George W. Bush.

Aides to President George W. Bush weren't troubled by the threat, due to a tech glitch, of losing millions of emails -- the preservation of which is required by federal law.

According to a new report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Vice President Cheney and others ignored warnings that, with no viable archive system in place, emails could be lost as the White House switched to the Microsoft Exchange email system in 2002. White House Counsel Harriet Miers even rejected a 2005 plan to restore the emails, according to the report.

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