Memo: FBI Destroyed Evidence in Bin Laden Case After Glitch With E-Mail Surveillance System

AP ^ | May 28, 2002 | D. Ian Hopper

[Dog Gone]

I'd rather they destroyed them all than kept them all. It's as if they accidentally opened and copied everything sent in the US Mail. If I'm not a suspect, and there's no warrant, the government has no right to look at my email.

It is unfortunate that terrorist emails were also destroyed, but they are inept, obviously.

[NativeNewYorker]

a March 2000 memo

Just for the record.

[Fish out of Water]

*Index Bump

[aristeides]

Comedy of errors, or deliberate?

Anybody remember what was going on with the missing White House e-mails at this time, March 2000?

[Senator Pardek]

Anybody remember what was going on with the missing White House e-mails at this time, March 2000?

That the first thing I thought, too. Probably no connection -but it's an interesting coincidence, nonetheless.

[Eroteme]

Good eye. It was precisely March 2000 when the White House email story was breaking wide open.

So why would someone at the FBI panic enough to destroy all info, including legit surveillance on bin Laden associates?

Possibilities: 1) The person(s) whose e-mail was illegally captured was well known and powerful, or 2)the rapidly escalating White House e-mail situation served as a heads-up to create, in advance, reasonable explanation for a trove of missing data;

...or 3)as an extension of possibility #1, e-mails captured by this bin Laden unit may have mirrored one or more of the supposedly irretrievable White House e-mails.

[Sub-Driver]

and by choice the FBI deletes stuff?

[aristeides]

I was thinking of your (3).

[lelio]

The FBI technical person was apparently so upset that he destroyed all the e-mail take
Yeah that's a good one. The FBI's version of "the dog ate my homework"

[Mo1]

...or 3)as an extension of possibility #1, e-mails captured by this bin Laden unit may have mirrored one or more of the supposedly irretrievable White House e-mails.

Well it could be very possible

BTW .. weren't those emails suppose to have been recovered?? .. what ever happen with that???

[OldFriend]

More legacy for the evil ones and their evil piglet.

[Reactionary]

Oh, goody! Another "glitch" concerning e-mail! Another "snafu!" Another lame attempt to say that a "technical glitch" has destroyed evidence.

Sounds hauntingly familiar, doesn't it?

And I believe this crap like I believe that space aliens invented sliced bread.

[Reactionary]

You forgot possibility number four.

That the FBI itself was implicated by the e-mails that were destroyed by a "glitch" or "snafu."

[flamefront]

Yet more "leaks" of the Clinton defense that it all was a "SNAFU".

[flamefront]

right

[OwenKellogg]

>>> Anybody remember what was going on with the missing White House e-mails at this time, March 2000? <<<

This was from September 2000, but has some relevance possibly: Secret off-site e-mail tape depot revealed

[Tymesup]

Paging Judge Lamberth, paging Judge Royce Lamberth.

[backhoe]

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