White House: 'We screwed up'

From
CNN, et alia:



href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/12/white.house.email/">White
House: 'We screwed up' on deleted e-mails

POSTED: 4:35 p.m. EDT, April 12, 2007



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House "screwed up" by not requiring
e-mails from Republican Party and campaign accounts to be saved and is
trying to recover any documents that may have been deleted, a
spokeswoman said Thursday.



Just ask the NSA for copies.  They probably have them.




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