Oh, like this was an accidental oversight:

WASHINGTON - Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005.
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The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed.

“When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired … the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,” the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola.

It has been the goal of a White House Office of Administration “refresh program” to replace one-third of its workstations every year in the Executive Office of the President, according to the declaration.

Some, but not necessarily all, of the data on old hard drives is moved to new computer hard drives, the declaration added.

In proposing an e-mail recovery plan Tuesday, Facciola expressed concern that a large volume of electronic messages may be missing from White House computer servers, as two private groups that are suing the White House allege.

With this administration, selected bad intelligence is exposed to public scrutiny to promote an effort to start a war. All other facts that would expose the political conspiring going on behind the scenes are accidentally erased, in direct violation of transparency laws.

At a House committee hearing last month, a computer expert who previously worked at the White House called the e-mail system “primitive” and said it was set up in a way that created a high risk that data would be lost from White House servers where it was being archived.

Under pressure to provide details about its computer system, the White House told the congressional committee that it never completed work that began in 2003 on a planned records management and e-mail archiving system. The White House canceled the project in late 2006 and says it is still working on a new version.

Late 2006… gee, that was when DoD Secretary Rumsfeld was canned and the surge plan proposed, right when the Dems took control of Congress, so the White House knew long overdue Congressional oversight and investigations were forthcoming.

So the destruction of evidence will continue, under the guise of working on a new archiving system. This is normal behavior for liars who will break any law when they’re confident that Congress won’t ever impeach, prosecute or convict them.

There’ll be no truth to set us free. Bush was a mutant born devoid of an ethical conscience. Our Congressional leaders were mutants born devoid of spines (a condition I call Spina Buffoona).