White House Exchange Servers lose emails - $15M cost to taxpayers
Since last spring, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform has been investigating reports that an
estimated 5 million email messages from 473 days between 2003 and 2005
allegedly vanished from e-mail servers housed within the president's
office.
White House has said it has since reduced the number of days' worth
of missing e-mails from 473 to 202 after discovering that those
messages had been filed "in the wrong digital drawer" as part of a
switch from the Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange e-mail system in
2002.
White House Chief Information Officer Theresa Payton assured the
committee that her office is working actively on a multi-step
restoration process.
When pressed by Davis, Payton also said she felt "very comfortable"
that they would be able to reconstruct any remaining lost documents
from "disaster recovery backup tapes," although she said that process
would be time-consuming and could cost at least $15 million.
$15 Million? WTF? guess who pays for this? When are we going to put a stop to the madness!
JB
The problems for the Bush administration apparently started soon after
the White House decided to shift its e-mail system from Lotus Notes to
Microsoft Exchange in 2002. It also replaced the automated records
storage system devised by the Clinton administration with a system that
one of its own experts described as "primitive".
Like we didn't see this coming
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1 Devin Olson Permalink Mistakes and ignorance can be forgiven. Deliberate stupidity really pisses me off.
(This event touches on some of the reasons why I left my "cushy
federal job" for the private sector).
-Devin.
2 Michael Smelser Permalink Uh-Oh... Emailgate.