Deep inside the bunker ...

Today the White House revealed that at one point it had a practice of recycling its backup computer tapes of sent and received e-mails, meaning possibly millions of messages were likely taped over and are now lost forever. The electronic file and document retention rules have been in place a long time and the White House had to know they were likely violating laws designed to preserve presidential records. These “lost” e-mail messages have been a story for a long time, and they likely cover “a period in which the U.S. decided to go to war with Iraq, White House officials leaked the identity of Valerie Plame and the Justice Department started a criminal investigation of the White House."

"It appears that the White House has now destroyed the evidence of its misconduct," said Anne Weismann, the chief counsel for the ethics group.

It is one more demonstration of how the members of the Bush/Cheney administration do whatever the hell they want to. And they will continue to do so until someone holds them accountable.