They won't give the name because then Congress could ask the company what happened and the company would either have to lie or say "we just did what the White House told us to do."

It appears that Cheney et al have learned their lessons from their time with the Nixon administration and know to destroy the records of their illegal activities.

As someone who worked for years on data networks with 99.999% reliability, the White House assertion of "accidental" loss of millions of emails is ridiculous. Such data is invariably mirrored not only on distinct servers in real time (located in different geographic locations) but is also archived offline in data vaults impervious to anything short of direct nuclear impact. No amount of gross incompetence can explain the many deliberate, meticulous, and repeated steps needed to destroy such data. The odds of this occuring by chance are less than zero by multiple decimal points.

Wow, that all I can say.

Everything is shrouded in secrecy with this administration. When challenged, they invoke executive privilege trampling all over the constitution. Why so much secrecy if nothing illegal was done ? What is this about Bush's campaign to bring democracy to other nations while at home he's governing like Stalin. But this is from a holier than thou party of hypocrites ala Craig, Vitter, etc, etc.

Another proof: Bush is the worst president ever.

how crazy is this, yet another instance of this "regime" doing whatever they want with no checks and balances, i mean shame on every last person who voted for this entity in the last two elections, this is your fault and for the rest of us and the world it just really sucks!

Since when do you hire a company and not remember their names?????
Are these people serious? Why haven't the Congress already started Impeachment proceedings on Bush and Cheney, it's obvious they are crooked as a stick and obstruct, avoid responsibility, lie, and basically thumb their noses at the American Public and our Constitution. If this was a Democratic President oh my, we would have had billions of dollars of investigations every talking head would be out telling everyone how bad the Dems are, do we hear a peep from anyone with regards to this? No. Why, because ever since 9-11 Bush and Rove and Cheney have made it their goal to paint anyone and everyone who don't agree with them as unpatriotic and traitors, so of course the Dems shut up and march lock step with the Nazi's. How pathetic our government is.

This is the natural progression from "dog ate my homework"

THE UNITED STATES IS TOO POWERFUL TO BE DESTROYED BY AN OUTSIDE FORCE.
OUR GOVERNING FATHERS WILL DESTROY IT
THEMSELVES.
THEY ARE DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB SO FAR.

just more evil monkey business by the sleezy slimeballs. Why are we surprised?

What are they hiding?

the only reason snow and rove have quit is so they can take their evil monkey business into the democratic presidential campaign.

all fear mongering by a left wing media. Yeah Bush is terrible but when will the media stop trying to link nonsense to some big scandal. How many things are going to be thrown at the Bush white house and none of it sticks? Whats hilarious are all the "sheeple" who believe it. Love the pic of Brian Ross to. Its an action shot as if he's on his little phone getting some inside scoop. Ohhhh, its so covert and he'll expose 'em.

GWB sounds more like Richard Nixon every single day. But unlike Nixon, the Presidential Records Act is now in place and this issue will not go away like the missing minutes from tricky dick's recordings.

Guess GWB doesn't need a presidential library after all!

It will eventually float.

However the folks in congress are such a bunch of useless sacks of dung that they will do nothing or the inquiries will silently slip away.This kind of example is an invitation to anarchy.
You can only get away with the whole "do as i say not what i do" for a finite amount of time.

Folks, this is your government; your democracy. Please don't give me any more of your bull$$#t about this being the most free and open society in the world. This administration is getting away with crimes that will one day looked back upon with awe. Just as today's Germans look back upon Nazi Germany and wonder how it could have possibly happened. Wake up, people. Wake up!

Those emails belong to the people of the USA. DON'T FORGET, bush is NOT a dictator regardless of what he may think of himself as being.

If you Liberals (ABC TOO) spent as much time and effort going after terroris,(the very people that want a non muslums whiped off the face of the earth). we would would be better off. you seem to think these people are our enemy. Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. A (D) from California, Imagine that

Truly the best generation that ever lived is fading off.......

They borrowed that one from Slick Willie and Hillary. Henry Waxman had this to say in his Minority Staff Report titled "Unsubstantiated Allegations of Wrongdoing Involving the Clinton Administration", March 2001.

Quote:
"Several problems relating to the e-mail archiving system at the White House over the past few years prevented a subset of White House e-mails from being archived. These problems may have had some impact on White House document production, because the White House conducted searches of archived e-mails to respond to information requests from investigators.
The Committee received no information that any White House official intentionally created the e-mail problems, made any attempt to impede investigation of the problems, or had any knowledge of the content of e-mails that may not have been captured."

In 2001 when the Clintons were being investigated, Waxman didn't consider it to be an issue. Now he is in full attack mode. Can you say "hypocritical partisan politician"?