The chief counsel for the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a private watchdog group which recently scored a legal victory over the Bush administration on its improper records archiving, said that the number of missing White House emails was more than double of what had been previously reported.
"I will tell you, by the way, that it's way higher than five million. It's more than 10 million," said Anne Weismann, a former Justice Department attorney who now serves as chief counsel for CREW in Computer Reseller News.
On Nov. 12, a federal judge granted CREW's request for the restraining order against the White House that prevents it from destroying all email backup media in its possession. Of course, this does not have any impact on any messages that had already been destroyed.
"I have a sinking fear that the backups we want have been overwritten. Millions of e-mails, gone. Obviously, if they're already destroyed ..." Weissman said, trailing off with the implications hanging in the air, said CRN.
(Thank you to Kimo Crossman for telling me about this article.)
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