# 22 MILLION, that's right, MILLION, Bush-era emails found **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285 "2009-12-14T23:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/1 "2009-12-14T23:34:51Z")
[22 million Bush-era emails found](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34419592/ns/politics/?GT1=43001) Alright, I’ll be the first to say it: they’re going to find evidence that Bush died on that pretzel and was replaced by a robot. More than that, some of the lingering questions from that administration, will probably be answered along with evidence from everything from willful ignorance in Iraq to firing of Dept. of Justice lawyers. I don’t want to overstate what could be in the emails, it may simply be millions of meeting requests and lunch dates, but one can hope. One question, however, needs answering. The article said that it will go through normal National Archive procedures, but would the Dept. of Justice be able to also go through them at the same time, or before the archives, in order to look for evidence of wrongdoing or some other such thing? While as a member of the public, I have to wait, I wonder if the same restrictions are non-existent for Obama’s administration ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/2 "2009-12-14T23:43:00Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Alright, I’ll be the first to say it: they’re going to find evidence that Bush died on that pretzel and was replaced by a robot. I find it unfathomable that a robot could have done such a bad job. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/3 "2009-12-14T23:46:18Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I find it unfathomable that a robot could have done such a bad job. Why? Maybe it was just a poorly designed and built robot. You know, a robot like the guys at GM would design and build. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/4 "2009-12-14T23:49:13Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Why? Maybe it was just a poorly designed and built robot. You know, a robot like the guys at GM would design and build. Please. We all know Ford robots are the worst ones out there. What with ass plates that spontaneously combust and god knows what else. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/5 "2009-12-14T23:49:46Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Why? Maybe it was just a poorly designed and built robot. You know, a robot like the guys at GM would design and build. How’s the saying go? “Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by maliciously-programmed robots designed to bring about the end of civilization.” Something like that, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/6 "2009-12-14T23:50:38Z")
I’m sure that a Congressional committee or a JD prosecutor could subpeona them as evidence, I just don’t know if there such investigations ongoing. Obama made it pretty clear that he had no real interest in pursuing criminal investigations of Bush admin practices. I think the JD is doing a torture probe. Is anything else still on the table? ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/7 "2009-12-14T23:52:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > Why? Maybe it was just a poorly designed and built robot. You know, a robot like the guys at GM would design and build. Unlikely seeing as Bush was never seen wearing or mentioning soft Corinthian leather. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/8 "2009-12-14T23:55:58Z")
I liked this: > [@](#): > > “We may never discover the full story of what happened here,” said Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director. **“It seems like they just didn’t want the e-mails preserved.”** > > Sloan said the latest count of misplaced e-mails **“gives us confirmation that the Bush administration lied when they said no e-mails were missing.”** Gee, ya think?? _waiting in amused impatience to hear the rationalizations and excuses from the right for this one_ ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/9 "2009-12-15T00:14:20Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > _waiting in amused impatience to hear the rationalizations and excuses from the right for this one_ Water under the bridge, it’s all old news, nothing to see here, look away. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/10 "2009-12-15T00:23:10Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I liked this: > > Gee, ya think?? > _waiting in amused impatience to hear the rationalizations and excuses from the right for this one_ “Those computers were installed by bleeding heart liberal programmers. Had we been allowed to use stone tablets and chisels like we wanted, none of this would have happened.” ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/11 "2009-12-15T01:05:24Z")
Computers work by moving electrons, and electrons have been shown to have a liberal bias. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/12 "2009-12-15T01:20:32Z")
Computers too. Double-whammy! ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/13 "2009-12-15T01:40:25Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I find it unfathomable that a robot could have done such a bad job. I don’t care what comes after, THIS wins the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/14 "2009-12-15T02:09:05Z")
They should have known Al would use computers to avenge his 2000 loss. After all, he invented the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/15 "2009-12-15T03:12:32Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Please. We all know Ford robots are the worst ones out there. What with ass plates that spontaneously combust and god knows what else. They don’t make their own. They buy them from China and Japan. I hope we do our own programming. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/16 "2009-12-15T04:09:18Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Computers work by moving electrons, and electrons have been shown to have a liberal bias. That explains it. ACORN has corrupted American electrons for years. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/17 "2009-12-15T04:20:55Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > That explains it. ACORN has corrupted American electrons for years. Ha! You just know that some muckity-muck dick (probably Michelle Bachmann) is going to bring ACORN into this somehow, and you just know that there are a lot of slack-jawed neanderthals out there who will actually believe it. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/18 "2009-12-15T04:52:26Z")
Read it and weep: [WWW.MSNBC.MSN.COM](http://WWW.MSNBC.MSN.COM) The extent of this fraud is amazing-we have evidence of outright destruction of data, evidence of collusion (in suppressing acdem… government data), and conspiracy. So, do the revelations exposed by the hack… um investigators invalidate the AGW… er Bush proponents? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/19 "2009-12-15T05:17:35Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Read it and weep: [WWW.MSNBC.MSN.COM](http://WWW.MSNBC.MSN.COM) > The extent of this fraud is amazing-we have evidence of outright destruction of data, evidence of collusion (in suppressing acdem… government data), and conspiracy. > So, do the revelations exposed by the hack… um investigators invalidate the AGW… er Bush proponents? If [Secret Santas](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34420690/ns/us_news-giving/) make you so sad, don’t participate. :rolleyes: 😃 Maybe you’d rather use [this link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34419592/ns/politics/). EtJ (Explaining the joke): News sites tend to change the stories on their front page. It’s better to link to the actual article. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285/20 "2009-12-15T05:21:20Z")
22 million? These pricks must have been unnecessarily “forwarding all” as much as my last company. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-million-thats-right-million-bush-era-emails-found/521285.md?page=2)