The disgrace of five million government emails "missing"

I’m still trying to internalize how five million White House emails could have gone "missing." (See last Thursday's entry.) If a hacker had gotten into the White House and destroyed five million emails it would have been a national crisis and an embarrassment to the administration. If a saboteur has gotten into the White House emails and destroyed messages, it would have been a national scandal.

Those files are secured in a multitude of ways: how could they just go "missing"? This “disappearance” had to have been done by someone in the employ of the White House, someone with many levels of clearance. So, an employee of the US government somehow “lost” or destroyed five million emails?

It is unthinkable that a government employee would have done such an act without authorization. There had to have been levels of responsibility in this action – not only whoever did it but whoever authorized it, and whoever ordered it. Can we imagine anyone doing such a thing without authorization from the highest echelons of government? There had to have been at least several individuals aware that government emails, contrary to law, were going "missing".

This is a disgrace. And to my amazement scarcely anyone seems to have noticed.

Comment:
Hannah said...
i have been reading through some of your older articles (i'd fallen behind), and i saw your article from 27 August about Anna Politkovskaya. Like you said, there are many other journalists in danger. Our vet's son was killed in Almaty in 1997, ostensibly in a bungled robbery, of course. i had forgotten about him until just a few days ago... it brings home the danger journalists face across the globe.http://www.internews.org/articles/1990s/19970118_washpost_gehring.shtm