Millions of Bush administration e-mails recovered

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Washington (CNN) -- Computer technicians have recovered about 22 million Bush administration e-mails that the White House had said were missing, two watchdog groups that sued over the documents announced Monday.

The e-mails date from 2003 to 2005, and had been "mislabeled and effectively lost," according to the National Security Archive, a research group based at George Washington University.

The archive and the liberal-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sued over the issue in 2007, said Monday they will settle their lawsuit under an agreement with the Obama administration.

The controversy dates back to the Bush administration's 2006 firing of the top federal prosecutors in nine cities.

After congressional committees demanded the administration produce documents related to the firings, the White House said millions of e-mails might have been lost from its servers.

[KC Scott]

To: Connie.R
From: W.2
Date: 7-7-07
RE: message

connie, ya think we could sign this crazy 007 feller up and drop him into aphgan... afgin... Uhhhh Obama Ben Ladens place?

W 8==D

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Thought I would share with everyone something that
happened on Tuesday night … and I hope that you will all pass
this to other AOL members.

While I was online Tuesday night, I was sent me an IM and
told me to checkout the profile of another AOL user named
CRAZY70707. Not really thinking much about it, I pulled the
profile up … and in big red letters, the word “FROZEN” was at
the top of this profile. At first, I thought it was some kind of a
joke, but when I went to click the profile off of my screen…I
couldn’t do anything…I was, as the profile said, frozen.

I sat for a few moments thinking the joke would go away and I
could continue my time on AOL. This wasn’t the way it was
going to happen. The only way I could get out was to
cntrl/alt/delete. When I was able to log on again, my
computer was sluggish so I logged off again. A few hours
later when I decided to try again…I clicked on my AOL icon
and a warning came up that I would need to reinstall AOL…it
had been completely wiped from our system.

When Alan got home, he called AOL to see if they could tell
what happened. When he told the AOL rep about
CRAZY70707, she pulled the profile up and guess what…as
you might have already guessed…her computer froze up as
mine did. We had to reinstall 4.0 and 5.0 again … and we all
know how much of a pain that is. We have lost everything in
our download file, as well as everything stored in our favorite
places.

I am sending this as a warning to you all. Do not pull this
profile up…whoever this person is, he’s an idiot … he’s been
reported and I am hoping that AOL is smart and will
discontinue his membership. In the meantime, however, don’t
get stuck in the same mess that we were … and, by all means,
pass this to as many people as you can.