Nixon Was a Piker 0
What’s 18 1/2 minutes compared to months’ worth of emails?
That period was one of the most crucial of the Bush presidency. The United States launched the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, and President Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1.
Payton and other officials said that older e-mails could still be contained on the tapes because of the way the files are dated.
The administration also said it is still searching computer archives for e-mails that have been filed in the wrong “digital drawer.” In addition, Payton and other officials have said that any e-mails missing from the White House archiving system might still be available on disaster recovery tapes.
Now, I’m not a big one for conspiracy theories. I go by the conspiracy theory version of Occam’s Razor:
Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity.
But, honest to Pete, it’s hard to believe that even this bunch of incompetent ideologues could be that stupid.
