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Uh...350 billion, divided by 300 million would be 1,167.00/person, not 1,000,000 per household. Despite all that's been done, the Bush administration has not changed the decimal system.

Excuse me for being concerned but the 350 billion dollar stimulus package that our government is about to enact confuses me. In America their are approximately 300+ million people why can't our government give that money to the people at 1 million per household, allowing each family to pay off their debt, i.e. mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and so on. This not only would save the American family but also influx money back into banks, credit card companies, Auto manufacturers and so on. It seems to me to be a simple math equation spen 350 milion plus give it to the hard working people of this country which are the backbone of what America stands for, let us save our own country as oppsed to giving 350 billion dollars into the hands of the greedy capitalists who got us in this mess in the first place. It is a win win scenario. And as far as the G-7 is concerned after the dust clears and we as a people have saved our blessed land then sit down with the G-7 and figure out how to manage our world so that this type of saving tactic will not have to be used again.

Concerned in California

You ask what right have I lost. How about one of the most sacred rights, that being the right to be secure in your property and possession. The Patriot act authorizes government agents to enter secretly and without warrants into any home or business in the United States of America.

If you don't think that that is a degradation of your constitutional rights, then please, read both the constitution and the patriot act.

I hope they will find enough in those e-mails to send all those warmongers to jail, I don't care that bush is just stupid – ignorance doesn't excuse killing thousands of innocent people just because you want to have a revenge for 9/11.

Dear ex-Republican:

Here's how your scorecard will look AFTER Obama
1) Civil Liberties, Constitution, Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Opporotunity gone
2,3,4,5,6,7 unchanged
National Debt 20 trillion....5 times larger...He'll make 14 in his first year!
9) Unemployment...you think 7 is bad...try 20%
10) Indoctrination...er....education system non-existant
11) Total socialized health care (see 20 trillion dollar debt)
12) No torture....one for Obama here...the 2 guys we actually tortured will like this
13) WMD's not found....unless one of them lands on us
14) economy gone forever
15) Housing crisis over due to 15+% inflation rate...but can you afford
$20 loaf of bread or $20 a gallon gas
16) keeping us safe.....we'll see

what is email ?

if they were doing their job correctly, then why would it be a blow?

Some poor folks are addicted to drugs.Some folks are addicted to spewing hate on blogs,lets pray for both.Good night and good luck.

I'm tired of this crap can't we just move forward?? It seems like the Democrats are stuck in the past and can't get over the blame game. Your savior has been elected maybe it will all be bright and sunny next week. If not we have to work as a team to fix our country not play games and throw stones. Time to roll up the sleeves and move our country forward learning from past mistakes. It almost seems to me like there is an underground movement to divide America so we will fight among and destroy ourselves.

The most significant emails have been shredded already. Duh.

This is the Bush/Cheney administration we're talking about.
Remember??!?!?!?!?!?

God is punishing this country for electing an idiot.
Millions of citizens suffering economic hardships must not be joking matters for George Bush. Wars must not be a game for him to play.
He should write a book and entitle it "Mission Accomplished: America Destroyed".
He must be tried and executed for negligence, deceit, war crimes.
Such a despicable miserable failing idiot !

8 years of partying & using "terrorism" as an excuse to get rich, snatch up all the Iraqi oil & play wargames with all the other Masters of the Universe neocon lunatics who can't get over the end of the Cold War.

Now, the bill's come due, the public's wise to your games, & even the God-Squad Evangelicals won't help b/c half your "moral majority" is gay, has a pregnant teenager or is in prison for taking bribes.

So what are you left with Chicken Little? OBAMA'S MIDDLE NAME IS HUSSAIN!!!!! HOW CAN HE PRESIDENT WITH AN ARAB SOUNDING NAME???

They have probably gotten rid of them already

Kinda messes up your legacy when we have those emails don't it?

History will never just you kindly Bush.

We will never forget the Worst President Ever!

Whatever. I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, Bush and Cheney will get away w/all of it. I won't waste my time believing these teaser articles.

maybe it will be made into a hollywood movie

to mike philly the only person who is goind to pooping their pants is yuo whe the president elect destroy this contry. i can't beleve they are stupid people like you uot ther. i see to me you don't care about this country if dont like here theme move to africa you make like that better but not destroy this contry some people care about what we have. that are cofinder this for us and are troop tha have keep us safe.
cheney & bush will all way be the best president that we have.

i hope that they find all the paper and birfh certifica paper from obama as far i no he is not usa he liear to get were he is and this country is in danger now.

WHY DON'T THE SORRY GOVERNMENT LEAVE BUSH ALONE AND GO AFTER THE REAL CRIMINALS. BUSH HAS BEEN THE BEST PRESIDNET SINCE WE HAD REGAN. BUSH AS DONE MORE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND HAS LOVED THIS COUNTGRY MORE THAN YOU WILL FIND IN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT IN A LONG TIME. CARTER, CLINTON, NIXON, KENNEDY AND A LOT OF OTHER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT TRIED TO GET ALL THEY COUND OUT OF OUR CIUNTRY AND NEVER PUT ANYTHING BACK. THEY DID NID NOT CARE THAT THE ENEMY MAY TAKE OVER OUR COUNTRY AND NOW THE BEST MAN IS LEAVING AND I AM SO AFRAID THAT THE TERROIST WILL COME IN BECAUSE THEY SEE HOW WEAK OUR DEFENSE IS AND OUR FINANCIAL PROBLEMS WHICH PAULON MADE E MESS OF IS IN JEPORDY AND WE MAY BECOME A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY LIKE THE ONES WE ARE TRYIN G TO HELP.

Those e-mails could be the smoking septor!

From an earlier post: "You asked for facts: Here they are:
1) Civil Liberties/Constitution completely destroyed with the Patriot Act
2) Two wars, no victory
3) Two Towers, it only took 4 planes to bring them down"

Wow. Are you on drugs or what? Constitution completely destroyed by Patriot Act? Have you looked at the congressional voting record for this for both parties? And how has the Constitution been "completely destroyed".

The problem I have with this kind of simplistic reasoning is that it fails to admit that we haven't had a major incident, probably because of things like the Patriot Act. And guess who would have been the first people SCREAMING at Bush for "not being tough enough" if something HAD happened without these actions...yes, YOU! Sadly, this nation is full of whiners and Monday Morning Quarterbacks, and the hatred for Bush completely whacks out your perception. Fine. Revoke the Patriot Act, and don't bother with some of the other things being done for security. When we have a major terrorist incident, you can bet that there will be heat like has NEVER been seen, and it will be laid right at YOUR feet...and the rest of the Democrats.

I can't wait for Bush to be out of office, not because I don't like him, but because it's going to be VERY funny to watch all you Bush haters continue to blame him for all kinds of stuff, and then of course when there will no longer be any rational way to blame Bush, well, you'll continue. Some time after that, when even irrational arguments don't work, you'll just go silent rather than be honest with yourself.

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy."
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON

This is Bush's legacy to America-many, many people now believe that torture is justified, that spying on fellow citizens is justified, that stripping away our Constitutional rights is somehow necessary in the name of "protecting the homeland." (By the way Hitler first coined "homeland.") This is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld and John Yue need to be brought to account...evil does not combat evil, and just because Bush said he could ignore laws does not make what he did legal. Doesn't it bother people that he and Cheney are now bragging about their crimes, as if they aren't crimes at all? America must be cleansed of these ideas before we become a different, suspicious, warring people and America ceases to exist.

"You all are a bunch of nut jobs."

I couldn't agree more. Life was so sweet back in the 90's. This whole decade has been a nightmare, quite honestly.

If you want to hold one administration accountable, then hold the incoming one accountable. Start by investigating fund-raising deeds.

What took so long ? Too late for impeachment !

Why don't they make this a reality show to see who can find the missing emails?

LOL...

Bet they won't. They have a lot of stuff to hide, and under that smirk, I bet GWB is worried...things are coming unglued.

Finally. How crazy to think it even a question. I think that they should be tried for war crimes.

What about Bill Clinton's emails and documents? Quote from NY Times: "Citing executive privilege, President Clinton today rejected subpoenas from Congressional Republicans to turn over records of private deliberations that led him to offer clemency last month to 16 members of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group." Gee sound similar to a current situation. Maybe this is why Obama wants to keep his blackberry. This way he can make his emails disappear.

Jail him and inject him..!!

Let's get him out our society!!

What about Bill Clinton's emails and documents? Quote "Citing executive privilege, President Clinton today rejected subpoenas from Congressional Republicans to turn over records of private deliberations that led him to offer clemency last month to 16 members of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group." Gee sound similar to a current situation. Maybe this is why Obama want to keep his blackberry. This way he can make his emails disappear.

In reading so many posts here, it is like reading things that illiterate and "foreigners" have posted. Weird!

I voted for Obama. I never liked Bush. I am just telling it like I am reading it... and my point??? Are the people who can't speak good English taking over out country? Seems like it.

What a waste of time.

Where has Bush been the past couple of weeks? Did he quit? Oh wait, that's a good thing.

If Bush, Cheyney and Rumsfield go to jail for war crimes...then the phrase "Mission Accomplished" will really have some meaning.

Well, well, well. Its finally over! I didn't vote for Bush in either two elections, and smacked myself upside the head when a majority voted him back into office again buying into all his hoopla. The truth is these politicians don't trust you to choose the president, they think most of you are stupid. Maybe Obama is different though, that remains to be seen. But one thing is definitely for sure, hard times aren't over yet.

Bush and his gang are safe while they stay in the US. But no foreign vacations... Or they just might end up in a war crimes trial.

I remember the stock market at an all time high. Home ownership at an all time high. Who is responsible for this. This was reported in the fall of 2007.

Will the White house stop Mayor Bloomberg and the MTA from increasing fares for the common folk ??

Those emails should be thoroughly investigated, to find out how he and Cheney have unlawfully profited from the Iraq war, and use it to bring them to justice. If his own country doesn't have the guts to prosecute him, then the world should, for crimes against the humanity. The invasion of Iraq has no justification whatsoever. All those people killed and maimed are his fault only, and he just gets two shoes thrown at him, and even missing its target? What s lucky S.O.B.!

It seems the Republicans should be calling for investigations of Bush after he leaves office most of all. If Repub politicans and their supporters call for investigations, they will have a leg to stand on should they feel Obama is going to do something that needs investigation. After the lack of investigations for torture, cooked intelligence, screwed up war and the war and hurricaine profiteering, I can't imagine what Obama would have to do to warrant an investigation.
In addition, Repubs have to go after BUSH if they have ANY HOPE of coaxing some Independents to vote Republican. They voted against the man the Repubs want to protect. You are showing them they are either wrong, or that Repubs don't believe in accountability for Repubs. Could extend your stay in the desert a couple of decades.

Hi Mr. Mears. Great story. Are we related. I live in Chas. SC?
write back to me if you will.

This a waste of time and money... Bush and Cheney certainly were not perfect and made mistakes and errors. They made bad decisions but if you looked at all the politicians included the Clintons and Obama you could dig deep up enough to hang them all. Lets not keep wasting time and money and effort for revenge. Remember everyone including congress both democrats and republicans supported the war to begin with and only when things went wrong did anyone start complaining.. I for one want a government that will protect me. If we can save one American life then I think we do what we have to. I want a president that is for America not the rest of the world and I do not care how other countries think of America.

i hope that he does delete these emails and just tossed in jail. i know what they can do with the jail in cuba once and the detainies are gone, put bush and all his people down there and treat them the way that the prisoners were treated. talk about getting a taste of his own medicne

Darn, I wished iwould have gotten that notice before I pressed delete

This is just yet another attempt by the bitter far leftists to try and dig up dirt and trump up false charges against President Bush. It amazes me how many of the far left can't get over the 2000 and 2004 elctions. There would never be a court order to get President Clinton's emails and there was an impeachment trial.

I'm sure that Obama will leave some interesting emails as well.

Chaney is going to do what he wants any way. He seems incapable of recognizing that there is a line separating right from wrong, truth from falsehood, and common decency from that which is so uncouth.

As a liberal, I love watching bickering between the two-sides. As you can see below, the GOP will argue with highfalutin verbiage and hazy words, and the Dems will come back with facts. Every time.

Just an observation.

"Executive privilege" means never having to say you're sorry. Don't let the delete key hit you on the way out, Mr. President.

WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! NO, WHAT WE JUST WATCHED THE LAST 8 YEARS... IS THE JOKE... BUT IT WAS NOT FUN TO WATCH.... BECAUSE WE ARE LYING BLEEDING ON THE FLOOR FROM THEIR RAPE OF THE NATION!

It was real and it was fun... but it was NOT REAL FUN... or we would be laughing instead of crying!

Anthony Ravenell January 14th, 2009 6:03 pm ET

We all know that the Bush administration had done illegal acts. We don't need another lengthy fact finding mission only to find them guilty. President Bush knows that his legacy is tainted and history not the courts has judged him as a failure despite what he thinks about himself. Let him go to Texas and be remembered as the "Worst President In Our Nation's History".
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ANTHONY RAVENELL.... LET HIM BE IMPEACHED! Then I will be happy!

these guys consider themselves above the law.......only God can judge them.

Yeah, Bush handed the banks and auto companies a blank check. He was AGREEING with the democrats. Did you forget that he took their side this time???

Bush is the reason abortion is legal....He should have been washed down the drain 61 years ago....Or she could have hooked him with a coat hanger and save the world from this A.s.s.h.o.l.e..

obviously, we are impatient for change.

""- it was BUSH who handed out all the money to the banks and auto industry. What have we seen for that generosity? NOTHING! ""

What exactly are WE supposed to see? I didn't buy one of those crap cars on purpose, but now OUR government is haning them the money anyways. ANd it is true that OBAMA cannot wait to hand them more! He is trying to get it done before he is in office!

Comes January 21st, one must bring him to Justice

The American failed to do what the iraqis dead by bringing Saddam to Justice, This man brough shame to our country. He is responsible for the death of over 4000 Soldiers, 30,000 injured and 9-11 as well and the death of over half a million iraqis and we list count of the injured. Brought us to most secretive excutive branch that answers to no body. The Americans need to learn a lesson from the iraqis and bring this man and his cronies to justice

Yeah, like these crooks and thieves are going to start following the law now, when they only have 6 days of being above it left?

As if.

this is good and well as long as bush or anyone esle doesnt "bleep" some emails,,mmmm this could get very interesting ,, ya think???

Umm...what exactly do you think they will find? Say they find out Bush is responsible for every single thing you conspiracy theorists are posting here. What do you honestly think is going to happen to him? Nothing right? He's a president whether you cry babies like it or not which means he can basically do whatever he wants. I'm from Chicago. I'm used to this level of corruption. I just don't get why you ride the coat tails of Obama so hard when he is no better. Doesn't matter which president gets into the office. Every single one is corrupt and can't change anything in the US. Cry all you want about Bush did this, or Obama is going to do that. Nothing changes. Voting doesn't matter. The economy can't be fixed by presidents and the bailouts are a mistake. Everything adjusts. Let it be.

@LB January 14th, 2009 6:17 pm ET
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You asked for facts: Here they are:
1) Civil Liberties/Constitution completely destroyed with the Patriot Act
2) Two wars, no victory
3) Two Towers, it only took 4 planes to bring them down
4) Osama Bin Laden still alive
5) Al Quaeda, many say stronger then ever
6) World Image, destroyed
7) Military Strength, reduced
National Debt quadrupled, from what used to be a surplus
9) Unemployment worse now, then when Bush was in office
10) Education system worse
11) Health Care worse
12) Torture
13) WMD's, not found
14) Economy in Ruins
15) Housing market in a free fall
16) Keeping us safe, NOT....ever watch the clip of two towers being destroyed as he reads a kindergarden book? His watch, His failure

So why don't you tell US something, just SOMETHING, ANYTHING for that matter, that he did. NOTHING got better with him, everything he touched, is worse now, then it was then. He was an absolute failure.

j'bo

"Exactly what rights have you lost? Be specific. For all you liberals, that means no hazy, spurilous, vitriolic comments. Give me one fact if you can"

How about the right to privacy, remember the PATRIOT ACT? That document basically stripped away half our constitutional rights, all under the guise of "national security". How about the right to a fair and speedy trial, or the right to due process, or the right not to be questioned without legal representation?

The last 3 things have only applied to the foreign fighters being held in Gitmo, but could have easily applied to anybody that the government deemed a "terrorist", or "enemy of the state". I personally hope that President Obama and the Congress overturn the PATRIOT ACT within the first 30 days.

LB – it was BUSH who handed out all the money to the banks and auto industry. What have we seen for that generosity? NOTHING! To call PE Obama an idiot just shows your lack of knowledge. He is inheriting a MESS – we'll be lucky if he and Congress are able to do something to help us all – yes, even you! Idiot,

I just hope some of this administration is prosecuted for its crimes! Honestly!

All this information must be on some server backup tape that is housed in the salt mine for safekeeping. They need to talk to the database and server support staff to find out where it is kept. Every competent data center saves the backup tapes for disaster recovery.

Make sure they preserve Cheney's too! Tho I would not recommend it be available to just anyone – it takes a special kind of person to look at what evil likely lurks in his "sent items" and not be affected...and no GW not your kind of "special".

These emails are covered under the Hatch Act. That there is even any debate as to whether or not they should be preserved is something that would take place in a banana republic, not America.

I bet the next Headline Reads – Emails Destroyed Because.........
or As We Said Previously They Were Destroyed........or Maybe.......
Cheney's Emails are Under Executive Privlidge ... And then during the firing of staff issue they lost how many hundreds/thousands... what are the odds they could preserve anything – Image comes to mind!

Bush and his band of badies have shown no respect for the Constitution so I'm sure they will have no respect for the orders of a mere judge.

On January 20 "the heavens and angels will sing."

Half of you think Bush was a disaster as Prez. OK, you can state that, but how about backing it up with real facts??? Of coursrte he made mistakes, but taking out Saddam was not one of them! DUH! We will see how much "change " is really done. This idiot you elected hasn't proved anythiung yet. He seems to be all too eager to hand out money we DON'T have. Also, since my income is nearly 100k for the household, I am sure I will be deemed "wealthy" and thus responsible to support the less fortunate. BAH!!!!!!

Exactly what rights have you lost? Be specific. For all you liberals, that means no hazy, spurilous, vitriolic comments. Give me one fact if you can

Well... Its a lot easier to break something like Bush did than to fix it, which Obama, with our help, will do in about 7 years-

Considering that Obama is committed to have the most opaque presidency in history, and has already repeatedly demonstrated his disdain for the Bill of Rights, who cares?

Wow. I really feel for some of you . You have had it so hard the past 8 years living under this ruthless dictator. So many of you have suffered greatly and have gone without. I'm sure glad i live in the good old USA instead of where you all have been living

I was watching CNN early and I saw Osama Bin Laden making a video tape, walking around he looks healthier than a horse, if anyone can answer this question for me please feel free to do so...

Why we haven't caught this man yet? he is walking around making a video like he is on MTV giving shouts out and everything, they can find a man that haven't paid his child support but they can't find Bin Laden , I think we should call Joey Greco the man from cheaters he can find anybody.........

Did anybody ever find out why Rush Limbaugh had a bottle of Viagra when he went to Honduras to play golf?

Last time I checked, Viagra and golf don't mix.

We all know that the Bush administration had done illegal acts. We don't need another lengthy fact finding mission only to find them guilty. President Bush knows that his legacy is tainted and history not the courts has judged him as a failure despite what he thinks about himself. Let him go to Texas and be remembered as the "Worst President In Our Nation's History".

I wonder if the judge was a democratic operative. I did not notice CNN labeling the judge one way or the other. They normally do that so that everyone knows if the possibility of bias exists. Well they report if it helps a liberal, but not when it’s a conservative. But since they did not, here are some facts. He was a political appointment by Clinton in 1997. Additionally he is also African American, not that it matters, but since African Americans vote 91% democrat the chances of him being biased are very strong.

I am confident that in another four years the Republicans will do the same to Obama. You know payback is a spiteful thing that democrats seem to have mastered with the help of left leaning media organization like CNN helping them every step of the way.

But I digress; I hope the lawyers make a fortune off this from the hate filled lefties that will never end their hated of anyone conservative. They deserve to know if all their hair brained lies have any credibility. You know like Pelosi's statement that “Bush secretly has Bin Laden in jail and is going to bring him out just in time to win elections." What an idiot she is, and you Democrats believed her Ha Ha Ha. Not that it is unusual for a left wing nut to believe any lie and conspiracy theory out there that tarnishes conservatives.

And I bet dollars to donuts that they will run an update often to keep you lefties happy, unless they find nothing then you will never hear the truth. Its only news if it hurts conservatives at CNN. Actually that should be their moto.

That's a BIG win for JUSTICE! Question is WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?

What the far-right-nuts posting here do not get, understand, comprehend is that BUSH & CHENEY ARE GUILTY of TORTURING, and CAN be brought to trial at the Hague for war crimes! You people of the far-right can continue to live in denial and reject the TRUTH. That's why the courts had to force them to keep the emails. Of course, wink.... wink..... we ALL know that the Bushies deleted, shredded and otherwise got rid of evidence that would condemn them!

Mike Mundy, Houston, TX January 14th, 2009 3:45 pm ET

All of you lefties are a bunch of speculators and conspiracy theorists of this administration. What you should be concerned with is Obama's reasoning with wanting to meet with Hamas, who want Israel wiped out and convert the world to Islam!

Perhaps some of you smelly and fat coffee shop nerds should close your laptops, put down the glazed cake donut, take a shower for once in over 2 weeks and clean up your acts!

hey mike mundy from texas, so why are so concerned with israel, could it be some sort of religious thing,, God looks with favor upon those who look with favor upon Israel.... i am sooooooooo glad, that you and so many other of my fellow countrymen are willing to give more money to Israel than anyone else for religious reasons.... gee thanks, its not like i could have used my own tax dollars for my own purposes, but people like you who feel you have a religious obligation to israel, have given the okay to give all of our money to one tiny little country.. thanks alot, now why dont you take your bush blinders off and realize you support a corrupt administration who serves their own agenda and only theirs...

take a shower and wash that bush filth off, you stink

WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!,

kind of like all we heard from the right pundits that these last 8 years have been Clintons fault?

Herman @ 3:44-

This is rich...the White House e-mails are going to indict Democratic members of Congress? Wow, right wing delusions are getting more and more out there.

In regards to power-when one branch (the executive) is driven completely by one party and one ideology, it can be pretty powerful as we have seen the unchecked power and corruption of the last 8 years.
The legislative branch is usually not powerful because the balance of power is so close and one side can pretty effectively shut down the other. Let's see what happens in the next two years before the are any declarations.

Haha Ernie I'm not worried...unlike our last prez, Obama will uphold the constitution! 'specially the 'right to bear arms'! And, to throw in an extra, maybe even the right to arm bears!

@ Joe Kirby......you forgot he's a Muslim who sat in a Christian church for 20 tears, genius.

Did Rush and Hannity starch your brain when they returned it from being washed?

if the president does it, then its not against the law

lol...

so.. if the emails are missing, will we know, and if so, what are the courts going to do about it,,, i want to know what the consequences will be for the re-writers of the constitution.

By the time they 'see' these documents and emails, they will have been gone threw. Sifted of all the speculation and proof of idiocracy. This is what happens when you give someone with Parental power... power of his own. I'm still wondering how those 2 got re-elected. Probably the same reason the Patriots were so 'awesome' after 9/11

This should always be done should it not?

I CAN'T WAIT FOR HUISSAIN OBAMA TO TAKE OVER!!!!!!!!

IT'S GOING TO BE SOOOOOOOO FUN TO WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE OBAMA SUPPORTERS MAKE EXCUSES AND CONTINUE TO BLAME BUSH THROUGHOUT HIS 4 YEARS IF HE LAST THAT LONG!!!!

I think that's a good thing i don't know though

rocky January 14th, 2009 5:18 pm ET
Too bad we don't have anything better to spend time and money on. Why is it possible for a small group of special interest morons to waste so much of our tax dollars on STUPID stuff.
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Perhaps you've forgotten (or more likely wish to ignore) the waste of taxpayer dollars used to catch Clinton in a bj controversy without any substantial findings by Kenneth Starr pertaining to the "White Water scandal", his initial responsibility. Some where around $76-million tax dollars were wasted for no good reason. To you and your ilk, it's a waste of tax dollars when Republicans are investigated for REAL crimes but not when Democrats are hounded by a lawyer. And don't you guys hate lawyers?

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." John F. Kennedy, September 14, 1960

Jim C, are you serious? Do you really think Saying Obama will be like Clinton is a bad thing when it comes to the Clinton years? The Clinton years were the most prosporous years in American history. More jobs were created than both Bushes combined. Do you really think if we moved away from the disasters that were created by Bush to a Clinton-like economy, that would be a bad thing????? I really really hate people who try to rewrite history. Just because you say stupid things loudly, does not make you right. Let’s say this clear for all of the far right people on this blog, Bush’s presidency can not hold a candle to Clinton’s. The job market blossomed during the Clinton years! Go and read any recent history book and look at the boom years that was the 8 years Clinton was in office. I swear, Republican minded people are hard to figure out. You can watch everyone around you losing jobs and suffering and yet you say, “Obama will destroy this country”. You all are a bunch of nut jobs.

How can the Bushists preserve what they've already destroyed?

I think the losers (being the Repubs) need to take a 10 year course in truth vs. fiction. I don't recall anyone ever saying that the corruptiveness of the Republican party erases all of the corruptiveness of the Democratic party – which you consistently allude to. If you take every acquaintance, person you attended a meeting with, went to school with, lived next door to, spoke to in the hallway of the Senate Chambers and dissected them for some sinister act they participated in by knowing these people..................who would be left. Those of you who voted twice for Bush, who actually stole his election (which you'll never admit) ought to find it somewhere in your conscious to at least give Mr. Obama a year of his presidency to see if our country won't be in a better place. We gave you 8, and for what?

Why would anyone want to be President now in America?

You can't even be a human being! 300 million emails all being viewed by all to see. Wow!

Monica in Seattle, Obama is going to take your handgun from you girl.

Oh, yea, Why would they listen now?

There are a lot of angry, ignorant, frightening neo-cons out on this board today. They all need to get a clue and figure out that the President of the United States of America is NOT above the law, never has been and never will be, and that he or she works for US. This is OUR government and our elected officials are answerable to us. Period. That is why any e-mails of an incriminating nature regarding the firing of US Attorneys, WMDs, etc. must be released. As the CEO of a corporation, you would not allow your employee to embezzle millions of dollars and delete the e-mails that might provide proof. Same here, only we are the CEOs.

As far as Bush and his WMDs, he acted on faulty intelligence, people make mistakes and sometimes believe the wrong information. However, in this case, the information was provided by individuals and organizations with a definite anti-Saddam slant. Those individuals who encouraged Bush to invade Iraq, regardless of Iraq's lack of involvement in 9/11, were those same individuals who signed the letter sent to Bill Clinton in the 1990s. That letter, from the organization PNAC, requested the removal of Saddam Hussein nearly 10 years before our invasion of Iraq. If Bush had truly considered the source, and truly wanted to make the correct decision, he would have discounted those opinions of the demonstrably rabid coup-mongers. But he didn't and that makes him responsible for an unjust invasion, unjust occupation, and the unjustifiable deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis.

@ Terry

"The American political dialogue just hit a new low"

Sorry, Palin still holds that record in light of her consistent mangling of the English language.

@John: "When will we ever move this country forward instead of backward" I'll tell you when....when the voting electorate take their responsibility seriously....when they can correctly analyse and respond to a situation when they are asked to vote for a person who all his life has shirked duty, gotten other people to take on his responsibilities, failed at every endeavor he ever attempted, only to be bailed out by Daddy's influence and money.....when they can correctly analyse and respond to the situation when by some nation-wide lapse of reason a problem child got into office, only to continue the very same track record of failure that was evident before the first election. Many of us have put up for 8 long years with the abhorrent failure inflicted on this country, twice, by many of its own citizens, knowing from the start that horrible choices were being made. And we have watched over the last 8 years as only so very slowly many finally realized their mistake. We as a country should look back in hopes of learning lessons so we do not repeat failure, and maximize our chance for success, going forward. I think 2000 was an unfortunate example of doing what you propose now, to move forward for the sake of moving forward, without the requisite analysis of the past and what is presently before us. There are some things this country has to hammer out, some evils it has to exorcise, otherwise the stench of [R] failure will be with us for a very long time.

There should have already been a system in place to backup all email from the White House. Obviously this order will be circumvented. National Defense issues are the only ones we don't need to know about. All else should be a matter of published facts. Enough with the corruption in our government. Here's a new motto Americans need to be chanting... "Jail, baby Jail!"

@ rocky......sir, there is nothing stupid about up-holding the laws of our nation and punishing those guilty of violating those laws.

ooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa get them all please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

excellent points terry!

This outgoing administration needs to be accountable for its actions. There have been more of misdeeds in these past 8 years than any other past administrations collectively. I'm very glad the Federal Judge ruled as he did.

Scott, January 14th, 2009 4:06 pm ET:

The already GOT rid of the backup tapes! You must have a bad memory if you already have forgotten the "five million missing emails case" from a few years back.

They did not delete the tapes, they installed a system that would FAIL to make the backup it was supposed to make but instead delete the originals (and then they used RNC accounts for the real salty stuff). There where hearings and everything in Congress about this, don't you remember?

Joe... youd better see a doctor real soon. that much anger and rage is going to cause you to have a stroke, buddy.

I am a democrat so you know I didn't vote for Bush, but when he was elected I gave him a chance not for 4 years but for 8 and as soon as a democrat President get elected these MUDD DUCK REPUBLICANS starts screaming Obama is going to fail give the man a chance, I guess your 101 K Plan is looking pretty good right now stop complaining, I sent Bush 300 emails asking if he could lower my health care plan I guess he didn't get it...........make sure you check the draft, sent, & junk mail messages.........

Please stop yelling at each other. The US Constitution mandates that all Presidential records and communications be saved. THAT IS THE LAW. Deletion of E-mails or diverting them via private E-mail accounts is a crime, regardless of the Party affiliation of the Prez.

This could get VERY interesting, hope those emails are made public and anyone involved in wrong-doing goes to jail. Including Bush & Cheney!!

Counting the days until this corrupt & inept administration leaves Washington!!

Do you ever wonder where the comments you post (always your best) go when you hit Submit and they just disappear?

5 and a half days, just five and a half.
I thought that after I finished bootcamp I was recovering from shock, I'm going to need 40 years of therapy after Bush.
Oh yes, to all you chickenhawks, it's not a mistake, yours trully, Darth Vadik, was in the Marines for 6 and a half years.

TO HMM. I dont care if Joe Kirby is white, black or green. He is a bigot and should be dismissed. The days of people like him ended long ago. They are just too stupid to realize it.

They have not obeyed the law for 8 years.....Now the pardons will begin..........5 days till the nightmare is over and we send SHRUB back to Texas

crook and lie all media love it as long u liberal.

cnn pls post this...

"richard":

Good to know you're counting. I'm sure you can't WAIT to sit in the front of your television and watch every second of it. I hope you drown in your own years.

6 DAYS UNTIL AMERICA IS SAVED!!!

To a group that put the Constitution through the shredder, I don’t think doing the same to a few emails will mean anything. I thought it was funny when Larry King asked Bush the other night if Cheney ran the show and he just laughed. I don’t think we should dismiss these two thugs too quickly. They should be held accountable for making up their own laws to suit them. Six more days won’t come soon enough for me.

Too bad we don't have anything better to spend time and money on. Why is it possible for a small group of special interest morons to waste so much of our tax dollars on STUPID stuff.

This administration obey the ruling of a judge? Psssst not a chance.

SHOCKER!! This has been the least transparent adminstration ever. Neo- Cons don't care about ethics they care about end results. Investigate Bush-Cheney and that will truly re establish America's so called Democracy of the people.

Mike Philly, "Cheney and Rumsfeld must be pooping their pants over this. ..."

The American political dialog just hit a new low.

I have little to no hope that the Bush team will be held accountable for their numerous "high crimes $ & misdemeanors." Nancy Pelosi should NOT have taken impeachment "off the table."!!!

We Americans elected Bush to a second term, knowing full well what kind of president he was, though I personally voted against Bush four times: twice as governor and twice as president.

I don't want to spend a lot of our national energy trying to prosecute a bunch of guys who were doing exactly what we knew they were doing. We went along. Our protests were feeble at best until the economy imploded. There were times during the campaign when the majority of Americans said they were going to vote for McCain.

We have more important things to do.

AWWWWWWWWWWW... You silly Americans, you all whine and complain about your current President, and you all blame everyone else for the problems your government has thrown the world into, but all over look one simple thing.... MOST OF YOU VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE... After the mess he made of things with in the first four years as president most of you thought hey lets vote for him again. Good Job the rest of the world is suffering because of the Bush Administration. I think you all owe the rest of us (NON AMERICANS) an apology for what the rest of us (NON AMERICANS) have to suffer through . You all wanted Clinton impeached for a blow job, look at what Bush has done.

Bring the troops home OBAMA is the least you could do.....

I wonder if he lost his just like Bill Clinton had all his deleted somehow. You people that report garbage like this need to get a life.

Hey Joe Kirby!

Just to set you straight – it's put your hand OVER your heart NOT CROSS your heart (unless your man boobs are bigger than my D's) when hearing our National Anthem! And for the record, I have NOT been proud to call myself an American in the past eight years because of the joke into what Bush & Co. has turned this country. You're going to hold Michelle Obama's statement against her? I'll stand with her! And before you go screaming 'hippie, vegetarian, pot-smokin' liberal from Seattle,' I'll have you know my handgun is probably bigger than yours.

Cheney already had them deleted.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!! HERE HERE!

Not a chance, will not hold up; can you call in some experts and have a magical system error...oops. Not my fault, these darn machines keep acting up. E-mail, what e-mail. Oh wait I just recieved a notice from the bank of Nigeria that I have won 1.7 Million dollars. I'll forward that on the the judiciary.

Joe Kirby

congratulations-you were able to fit all of the right wing frothing at the mouth talking points into one paragraph. You and Mundy should get together for some chew and hi -fives

Jeanne from AZ, based on your skewed ideaology, I too am glad you don't have any children.

Good point, Joyce. Lucky for us, email has to go through various servers to be delivered, and betcha that those records have been locked down!

The Bush haters have six more days.

Then its time to actually do something rather than cry like the babies the Democrats have been for eight years now.

If Bush , Cheney and Rumsfeld get away with this,I don’t see how anyone can ever believe that our system has preserved any justice at all
for our future. They should be tried in an international court for their crimes.

Who are you people who think that just because your views differ that greatly from those of Republicans that the leader of said party is an outright evil criminal who needs to be investigated and prosecuted and even worse??

Say what you will about the man's judgement or intelligence or public speaking ability, but to run amok screaming over and over that the guy was ill-intentioned or unpatriotic or racist is absolutely ridiculous. Anyone who has met the man in person – Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative, Media, Lobbyist, Athlete.... they all say the same thing. That, while questionably suited for the job, he loves this country and always meant well, despite the outcomes. You people screaming for torches are no different than the racists who hate based on skin color.

I"ve got a great record. I've never voted for a Bush or a Clinton. I voted for Barack because I'm good at judging character.

I may have lost many elections, but my soul is rested.

We've had a dictatorship for 8 years. Who in their right mind thinks that Bush and his cronies will listen to the law? It aint gonna happen.

I'm still waiting for the idi...voters who put him in office to apologize. That won't happen either.

Oh well, he'll meet his maker soon enough.

You can all go to hell... I'm going to Texas ! – signed...Another great American

Go to jail Bush and take your hate mongering right wingers with you.

Whoops ! Too late ! They were all deleted a long time ago.

What makes anybody believe that this man and his croonies would do anything that they are told to do. Never will happen !

@ TCM

I just know The Boss is gonna bust out "Born in the USA" at the inauguration just for you whacky birth-certificate conspiracy theorists. Keep clinging to it...I'm sure 9 out of 10 psychiatrists would agree it's a healthy fixation.

I just want to punch George W. Bush in the face, but then I remember my grandmother raised me right.

You guys are totally mistsaken. Cheney didn't shred anything cuz if he stands too close to the shredder, it causes his pacemaker to go all crazy.

TCM it is pretty funny how you have had your head in the sand for the last 8 years, and the entire election season. Have you not heard??? Obama's birth certificate was presented ages ago!!! As far as him being anti-American?? How do you figure? He is the American dream! He worked his way up from nothing, all the way to the top spot in the country. You are obviously a fool.

The judge would have to be a "Kennedy".

Let's make sure tha Obama's ALL get preserved as well. And NO Blackberry.

Here we go again. What about the Clintons, why weren't they investigated? Or how about Obama proving his citizenship. No judge gave the order on that despite how important it is. Oh wait, he finally did produce one way, WAY after the fact.

This is getting way out of hand. The left will realize this soon, VERY soon. 6 days come to think of it.

It would be interesting to view the Emails after 9/11. Bush Administration was told "NO WMD in IRAQ" . . . BUSH insist the information he received, was misleading. Bush, just like ALL American's, got the REPORT from the INSPECTOR'S--NO WMD IN IRAQ !!!

True, that unfortunately none of this will result in criminal indictments. However its important to uncover the smoking guns in those files for posterity so the Bush-apologists can't substantiate their revisionist history.

There's only one reason to show reluctance to handing over emails or any other documentation:

You are hiding something. Plain and simple.

Can't catch me if you don't know the details! Ever since Watergate, Cheney and others always knew that too many details regarding the goings on would spell death to any administration desiring to get around the Constitution. And it was that aim to hide any and all transactions, even e-mails. So it is nice that this might be around so as to uncover the detritus under the rocks left behind by this administration. This might even be better than the Nixon tapes!

Thomas,

I agree !!! This was a GOOD use of our tax dollars.The American people deserve to have a government thats transparent and accountable.

Whether this court ruling appeases the psychotic partisan left is a moot point.

The question from Mike Philly bemused me enough to answer his heartfelt concern about accountability and justice.
Believe it or not, like it or not we will ALL of us be held accountable and justice WILL be served. Not by your standards, not by my standards but by the ONE who has set the standards.
I will gladly trace the Bushes footsteps to that seat of judgement. Can you say the same thing of your new found "Messiah" who's top priorities include killing human life in the womb and ensuring that gays can thrust their lifestyle upon those who want to avoid it in the military and elsewhere.

Good, the whole place was corrupt. Some of the people sent George Bush there to do a job, not butcher the Constitution.

Bush Administration, I don't think Attorney General-designate Eric Holder are going to let you guys get off that easy. Now is the time to panic. Bring in the burn bags and the heavy duty shredders.

Wait Bush did that? I thought the facts said he didn't, ya that's right you left wing nuts only listen to the other left wing nuts.
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Terry,

No left wing nut here. If you belive that Bush and/or Cheney had nothing to do with outing Plame then you're as naive as a newborn baby.

Just 'cause a judge ordered it, doesn't mean Bush and Cheney has to listen. They are above the law..you betchya..

thomas seeing that the psychotic left pay taxes too they have a right to ask for an investigation and the judge had enough info to warrent as such...

i love how ppl on the right talk as if they are the only one who pay taxes...get a clue and get off your high horse...no wonder you guys lose elections.

And knowing how quick this administration is to follow the law, those e-mails will be long gone before anybody realizes it.

The Bush Administration started wiping its bottom with the Constitution from the day it entered the White House and hasn't stopped since. What makes anybody think this crowd will suddenly "get religion" and follow a judicial order? This is the same crowd that thumbed its nose at the Valerie Plame scandal and basically told all of us to get over it!!!

And personal to Terry in Lakeland, FL:

When does YOUR Commander-In-Chief stand up and accept responsibility for his actions and those of his administration?! Oh, that's right, I forgot, you're the right-wing and that never happens!!!

Gee, I sure hope that Harry Reid has a threatening letter ready for this occasion.

It's amazing to see the comments of some of the people here trying to turn this on Obama and the man isn't even in office. Please, how does this have anything to do with Obama. This was the Bush administration to you guys how are making these comments. My goodness.

Remember, Stalin killed 12 million of his own people and died of old age. Nothing will happen to bush and cheney. I won't even capitalize their names.

This reminds me of the missing watergate tapes. Maybe the Bush administration will provide transcripts of the missing emails...

"this will be a non story in 8 hours"

It was a non-story 8 hours before it was printed.

Democrats are so hateful, 6 days till the death of America

so now that we have a black president we are talking about all the e-mail , I think that the judge who issue the court order is trying to suck up to the new elected president and trying to suggest that there was some bad discrimination e-mail about black people that might damage the bush administration which is already damaged by the stupid action they been doing from the war on iraq to the war on gaza, I am sure that there are lots of damaging e-mails.
thank you very much.

THE POINT IS OUR GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE TRANSPARENT. I DONT CARE IF BUSH ORDERED A PIZZA VIA EMAIL; I WANT TO BE ABLE TO FIND OUT. IF HE WANTED PRIVACY HE SHOULD HAVE STARTED HIS OWN PRIVATE OIL EXPLORATION COMPANY.

OH, WAIT, HE DID, AND RAN IT INTO THE GROUND.....

Rainbows and Unicorns for all on Jan. 20th.

Why would we be under the impression that they will follow this court order? Dubya and his administration has yet to follow the rule of law. They will simply get rid of them and if they are ever put under oath will use the tired "I don't recall" political get out of jail line....

BTW Joe Kirby ~ just a guess ~ but by chance are you a plumber. ... with bald head ....kinda perpetual dumb stare ......slight grasp of the english langauge or reality for that matter?

I wonder how many people know that the Bush administration used laptops provided by the RNC in attempt to circumvent the law requiring preservation of e-mail that deals with official government business. Why would they do this but to hide something?

There can be no legitimate fear for national security because the records are to be released to the National Archives, not the New York Times. Anything truly a matter of security would have been redacted before release to the public. The only possible reason for a stunt like this is to withhold evidence from future generations.

More good use of our tax dollars to apease the psychotic partisan left.

Bush and Cheney should be investigated to the fullest extent!!!

I wonder how many law's governing the operations in the White House will be changed during Obama's administration. No way he will release his private emails, recordings, letters, etc... Further, when people yell foul he and many fellow Democrats will play the race card AGAIN saying that anyone who questions Obama's motives are racists. He already has violated the Constitution in his appointment of Hillary Clinton to Secretary of State. He appointed a tax evader to the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Who's next? Dr Kevorkian as Surgeon General? Hey Obama! Why not just send a nuke straight up and let it come back down on the United States and kill us all now? Why make us suffer before you destroy this country? Do it fast, like pulling off a band-aid.

WOW...how fast the judge acted on this....too bad they couldn't act that fast on other important matters....like...oh...let's say birth certificates for presidential candidates....and when they do act on it, not to merely sweep it under the carpet to further their own liberal agenda.

It's amazing how hypocritical dems are; after the treasonous act of supporting one of the most anti-American families that will occupy the White house......and you pukes are criticizing Bush? Just wait until the terror starts hitting in this country because of the waffle you've elected....

Too bad better than 80% of those e-mails and documents will be blacked out! Its called controlled information! CNN wrote the book on it!

Sounds like a liberal leaning judge trying to make a name for himself. Possibly get in good with the Obama dimwits. Stupid liberal pukes.

The only justice will be criminal indictments against the entire Bush administration.

John, you would be surprised how stupid people are. With this Administration, nothing surprises me.

Since when has this gang ever obeyed the rule of law??
Of course, we've got a mayor here in Detroit (and his mistress) in jail over text message regarding perjury..Hey, maybe this'll work, after all!

What exactly will change in your life, your children's life, etc etc... if you know what GW's emails said? Really, seriously think about it... Even if he had a big curly-hair winky, smiley face emoticon after his email to his chiefs of staff saying that he wanted to go to war to avenge daddy Bush, or sending naked pictures of Cheney to Bill Clinton, or whatever else he's being alleged with in his emails... How does that concern us?!?

There will NEVER be full disclosure of anything. It's bad for national security, and it's frankly none of our business! We elected this man to make decisions for our country, and he has done so. It is NOT our place to second guess those decisions, and demand to see the intelligence that went into it. Just quit with the theories, and realize that the court has no place in this... all the left-wing conspiracy theorists and the new right-wing ones getting ready to come crawling out of the woodwork need to suck it up and find something better to do with their time.

I say good for them for not disclosing it, good for them for shredding things that have no place in our "almighty" courts (maybe they should go back to investigating steroids in baseball?), good for them for standing up to these liberalist morons who think that we can all drink tea and eat crumpets and braid each others hair "and the world will live as one"...

To sum it up - the courts, on paper, can tell the executive branch what to do... But, come on..... seriously... he's the president... he can, and will, do whatever in the heck he wants to do... and will smile that great smile the whole time he does it.

I can see Bush packing up all the empty liquor bottles from under the bed.

Just like Bush said of the Patriot Act, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about."

Joe Kirby, you are a tool. That name must be an alias for who you really are, Sean Hannity.

Republicans are out, we are in. Quit whining

I am so loving this...what goes around after 8 miserable years comes around.

you people so dis regard the fact that congress sent these boys to war.
over CIA evidence. The same evidence bush looked at.

Wow, the last 8 years have been terrible? Really? Amazing how it started to get really bad after the Dems took over in 2006...I guess you libs only cherry pick what you want for your cause. I guess NO ONE made any money when times were good...cowards!

Anyways, Eagles will win its 1st Super Bowl.

One point often missed is that the Bushes are third generation crooks. Of course, GW mastered the art of cookery. You think not then see the facts, his team of Rummy, Cheney and the rest of the neo-cons was one he inherited from his papa.

To joe kirby and Mike Mundy anyone else still angry over the election results:

Like it or not, in six days we will see Barack Obama take the oath of office and become the 44th President of the United States.

As a wise man once said, sometimes you can't control the situation — all you can control is your attitude toward it.

Even if you did not vote for Obama, and even if you wish anyone else but him were becoming president next week, we all need to unite as Americans to work our way out of the economic crisis we are in.

Anger and bitterness from those who opposed Obama — or smugness and arrogance from those who supported him — will only keep us mired in the misery we all want to escape.

So, the guy misleads the country into war, hundreds of thousands are killed, he authorizes torture and this is the best our democracy can do. Its sad and pathetic. I thought democracy was suppose to empower the people, but of course Bush is beyond our power. This makes me sick!

Sho what? It can't be any worse than what the Clintons did? At least all of Bush's friends are still alive and not dead, or trying to carry stuff out in their underpants...Unlike the whole Clinton to Bush transition.

Its too bad Bush couldn't get the chairs reupholstered when he moved in after the "cigar-man" desecrated the Oval office.

Get a grip, this is a no-news issue.

wow, you guys are funny, So what, 300 million emails. Do you really think that if something was going on secretly that they would EMAIL it.... with all the hacking going on. I guess we will find out allot of steamy details of the staffs private jokes and lives. Wow, am I interested in that. Oh, and just remember. what goes around, comes around. What is good for this one, will be good for the other ones. Set a new precedence. When will we ever move this country forward instead of backward

Joe Kirby.. You are white I'm guessing.. lol- Good for you being born with that skin color~ What an accomplishment!

Mike Mundy, Houston, TX.....

Maybe you can take the tobacco that your chewing out of your mouth and take off the cowboy hat long enough to look in the mirror and see what's wrong with the country today...you republicans

Dear Anonymous in Seattle,

Reading the NY Times and People Magazine does not constitute serious research. Sorry to burst your bubble.

The tail wagging the dog,until they both tire! This will be challenged,then reversed,thus going to the appeals court,then onto the Supreme Court who will refuse to hear it,and throw it back to the courts,who indeed eventually find lack of evidence? Case closed,...

Oh please, like they will start obeying the laws now. Why should they when nobody ever has to face the consequences of their wrongdoings, whether legal or just immoral, right Bush?

By the way,

Why all the frustration? If you still like the Bush administration, you got your way — two terms. Quit complaining, at least until the rest of us decide he should stand trial as a war criminal.

If you don't like the Bush administration like the vast majority of the people in this country, you have the majority of your fellow Americans including yourself to blame. To many of the people in this country practice sloppy voting habits. You vote for the guy because you would like to have a beer with him. You vote over religious issues. Why not vote for the best leader, based on issues that matter to all Americans, like consumer protection, foreign policy, the economy, and healthcare?

Or maybe — like most Americans — you're too wrapped up in your 9-5 job, carting your kids to and from school/soccer practice, and your television. Perhaps you were too busy to pay attention.

Friends, this disastrous past 8 years — regardless of what you have preached or how you voted — is everyone's baby. Lets just be honest about that, take responsibility, and do better next time.

By remaining so complacent as a whole, we are begging crooks and schemers to take this country over.

I really have got to stop reading all of these comments. I cannot believe that you all are so obtuse. Do you not understand how serious this is???
You are so wrapped up in you idealogical positions that you aren't seeing the real threat. If we continue to allow the systematic breakdown of our rights, the laws then we might as well dispose of the Constitution and just let the government become a kingdom or dictatorship. This adminstration has circumvented virtually every check and balance. They have rendered the Congress to ineffective, have stacked the Justice Department, Civil Rights Department to their "Team, have stomped on everything that America has stood for. They have lied to the American people and they have bankrupted this country. Hopefully the next Administration is good and lucky maybe by the time I die the Country will be where we were 8 years ago.

I certainly am thankful that I do not have any children to have to live thru what I see as a devestated America.

jim, first of all Sandy Berger paid for what he did, which is more than anyone in the Bush Crime Family can admit to. second, the documents in questions were COPIES of documents he wrote himself.

Ed – not a covert agent? Did you even read her book? Let me guess you're still bitter McCain lost and Rush is telling you to find any angle to bolster the idiot Bush before he leaves office. Get real. She was covert. She was outed by the WH Administration et al. And, that amounts to treason. Period.

Bush and Cheney are criminals, so is Rove and they should all be brought to justice.

Fortunately, as stated in the senate confirmation yesterday, the new secretary of state and foreign policy direction for this country will rebuild the destruction of the non-poliferation unit within the CIA and actually do something *useful* in the war on terror. This country will be much better served when new leadership that have both an IQ and integrity are in place.

I thank fcking god(pick one) Bush and Cheney's rule is near its end.

Chris

Whoops ! Too late ! They were all deleted a long time ago.

What makes anybody believe that this man and his croonies would do anything that they are told to do. Never will happen !

give them all blackberries then we will all be safe

Why go through all this nonsense on emails!!!!! and other crap........when non of it will put Bush or Cheney behind bars...........If some just had the balls to put them behind bars for at least 24 hours. That would make me happy............but he's lied, stolen, caused deaths and yet he get to go home to his new home he purchased. All the Loopholes a Lawyer can find............It's a shame no have found a Loop hole for the people of the US to Sue the President for all the mess he has caused!!!!!!!!!

Bush should ignore it just like the Clintons did – Seems to have worked for them. And let's not forget all the crooks BO is bringing in in addition to the Clinton team. They get away with it so why shouldn't Bush. Mike Philly – You talk about the Bush administration breaking laws yet BO has broken so many already with his donations and I didn't see you mention that

Keep in mind nothing is ever really deleted, I don't think these guys are smat enough to be able to get rid of the hardware and oh say the backup tapes.

Crooks.....all of them.....Can't wait till there gone and the truth all comes out!!! Prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

Hey, Joe Kirby.....where have you been living these last 8 years....................give me the Clinton years anytime over the 8 yrs of hell we have had to put up with Bush. Good Riddance!

Bush and Cheney have treated the courts and the US Constitution as a pure annoyance...something to get around by using the Whitehouse hack-lawyers. They feel like they are above the law. This should have been challenged years ago. This election shows that more people are sick and tired of the abuses. It's our government NOT Bushes' government. He was sworn " to protect and defend the constitution." Not twist it! Any violation of law by this Whitehouse has to be procecuted to the fullest. wire tapping, torcher, outting CIA agents, destroying documents. Just to skim the surface !

CNN where is my extremely thoughtful post? took me 15 minutes to gather my thoughts and then you don't even post it. Oh well here is a short version.

Mike Murphy get a grip dude and me thinks Joe Kirby is actually Sarah Palin. Hey Sarah, it hurts doesn't it? yeah I bet it does. Oh well you'll get em next time.

Time for some justice to be served up to the criminals that have occupied the WH for the last 8 yeasr ... NO ONE should be above the law!

Mike Mundy – if reasoned political discourse and something akin to reality were rock 'n roll, then you are definitely Celine Dion.

Gosh, maybe now the Obama Administration will ressurect Sandy Berger, he can take everything and stuff it down his pants and walk right out the front door. No worries...

I mean, everyon eelse from Clinton I and II are here for Clinton III, starring William Jefferson Barack Hussein Oblinton

Does anyone think for a minute that these idiots will actually abide by the law? Get real. So a court order states they have to abide by the law, then some crackpot dipstick in the justice dept starts spouting off about the unitary executive theory stating that the president is omnipotent and, because of his omnipotence, cannot be held to account for anything. Additionally, the government is rife with "pinkos" and "left leaning libs", who cannot be trusted with such state secrets, etc.. ad nauseum. Yada yada, on and on, blah blah blah

January 20 cannot come fast enough! G'bye George and DICK! Gooooooood riddance!

Too little too late.

Wow Mike Mundy,
What an intelligent and articulate criticism. You Republicans sure know how to "wow" the world with your keen intellect. I'll have you know that I shower daily and maybe if you spent some time on your laptop...doing what us lefties refer to as "research" (crazy, I know), you might be able to come of with a more constructive and articulate comment. By the way, preservation of emails and documentation is a LAW written to hold our government accountable to us THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I'm not quite sure how, or why, you would argue against such a thing.

But deleting those emails is keeping us safe from the terrorists.

CNN–can you give us an update on David Kernell, the son of a Democratic Tenn. Legislator who hacked into Sarah Palin's e-mail account and then published it.

He was supposed to go on trial Dec 16 and could be given a $ 250.000 fine and 5 years up the river.

Please put your update on the Ticker.

Thank you.

It is amusiung to hear the right wing groaning when Bush is forced to obey the law. He and his staff knew the rules all along, and now, because they're told they must obey them, they cry foul or hiss about "conspiracy theories." This guy was a disaster as President. It's time to admit it and move on.

Our soon to be President finally has something positive on his resume'. Let's see, so far he has been an admitted drug user, a fund raiser for ACORN which is a semi-legal outfit that seems to hate whites and help blacks, a friend to white hating minister Wright, a friend to muslim Farrakan, a friend to terrorist Ayers, a husband to a 'never been proud to be an American wife' (who got a 300% pay raise the week he got elected to the senate), a friend to a Syrian swindler (Resko) who helped him get his house, but finally he can put on his resume' that he is the President of the US (but hates to wear flags and cross his heart for our national anthem.) Makes me proud to be an American and watch him CHANGE America back to the Clinton years and pursue Socialism.

Bet that shredder has been worked so hard...its SMOKIN~!

They have probably worn the DELETE letters off the buttons of their keyboards!

Careful criminals they are...

The crooked democrats have destroyed their emails for their support to the war... If Bush destroys them he is only following their footsteps. BTW – Valarie Plane was not a covert CIA agent...

I would really love to see all the emails released, to see who, what, when, where, and how everyone was involved. It might make some heads really spin...but, again, they'll never see the light of day.

I am sure this crooked administration is busy trying to figure a way to get around this court order. lol

Well too bad they already deleted all the ones that say anything worse than "Is this Starbuck's or Seattle's Best?"

They'll just delete the e-mails anyway. What will they do, send them to life in prison for deleting e-mails? Chances are the contents of the e-mails contain far more incriminating information that would get them in deeper trouble than if they just cleaned them out. Sad, we most likely will never know what happened behind the scenes. Cheney is a criminal and belongs behind bars.

My, my, my, what will all the consiracy theorists have to vent about after January 20, 2009, when President Bush leaves office?

Oh yeah...there will be another group of conspiracy theorists questioning Obama's ethics and deceptive actions as president.

All are only a bunch of know nothing whiners.

They need to get ahold of the hard drives on their computers. You know they've long since deleted any evidence.

All of you lefties are a bunch of speculators and conspiracy theorists of this administration. What you should be concerned with is Obama's reasoning with wanting to meet with Hamas, who want Israel wiped out and convert the world to Islam!

Perhaps some of you smelly and fat coffee shop nerds should close your laptops, put down the glazed cake donut, take a shower for once in over 2 weeks and clean up your acts!

Even if they delete the e-mails, nothing is ever really deleted on the internet. It'd be easy enough for a computer wiz to get the e-mails back.

What a waste of paper!

Send in the US Marshals !!! Screen the trash !!! Filter the sewer pipes !!! Strip searches !!! Cavity searches !!! Exempt NO ONE !!

let see obama's email's and how about clinton's (hillary's) email from her time in office

The emails will never become public because people like Dingy Harry Reid, Stretch Pelosi, Barnyard Barney Frank, The Messiah Obama, Hillary, Lurch Kerry, Dentures Biden, The Swimmer Kennedy and the like will have their names all over it, and the truth will prevail and hurt. You people really believe that the executive branch of government has more power than the legislative may want to study up on your constitutional law. It is not going to be pretty, and this will get hushed up in a NY minute. You wait and see...poof, where did they go?

I have no problem with having to save 3 million+ e-mails or the idiot democrats that will take their mean spirited always backward looking view on life and think that any of it really matters or that anyone really cares other than other mean small minded backwards looking Democrats.

Of course, there will be some kind of "computer error" or "rogue virus" that destroys everything.

Remember the 17 minute segment missing from the Watergate tapes ? Today it's 17 million missing emails.

I love the righteous indignation! Where was this order when the Clintons left office.....gee I wonder...

I think if they fail to comply, we should make them a HUGE, unprecedented example of these domestic terrorists. It would send a beautiful message to the world if we were to lock up Bush and Cheney at Levinworth, for LIFE, and only when all documents have been released, will they. But they will only be released to stand trial for ALL war crimes and constitutional laws they have broken...

Triple life sentences for EACH of them. Make an example out of the terrorists...Bush and Cheney

This request was given to Clinton as well. His aids ignored it just like Bush will. Both of these parties are corrupt. You kool-aid drinkers just have blinders on.

Someone needs to smack this Judge upside his head!!! This isn't a witch hunt!!

...Better late than never !!!

I can only imagine the concern of Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Clinton, Waxman, Schumer, Rangel, and Dodd as the emails show how much they knew.

Let's all stay focused on the past. The present and future will take care of itself.

Hmm. They've only had almost 4 years to destroy all those emails... wonder if they got around to it.

If they dodged all the subpoenas in the past, they will dodge them all again for this. Absolutely zero accountability.

This always should be standard practice, they don't own anything that's paid for and purchased by American taxpayers.

Finally. Let the investigation begin. They are requesting emails starting from March 2003. March 2003 is win the Iraq war began. Let's hear all the juicy details that the Bush Administration has been withholding for 5 years.

'Bout time. After turning the DOJ into a political-patronage chop shop I'm honestly surprised they've ordered Bush to preserve these records.

Sadly, I must concur. This administration seems to have ignored Constitutional law before...why would they care now? What could the Courts do? Jail him?

Or the administration will just start crying "State secrets!" again and put it all back into hiding.

Is it sad that I feel so cynical with this Administration??

That's great, but it's a little too late. The guy that can help in the e-mail investigation died in a mysterious plane crash in Ohio. He was a federal witness and the prosecutor had just recently requested protection due to threats from Cheney's henchmen. Hmmmm.

Yes ... even I preserve my emails for some length of time!

this will be a non story in 8 hours.

And the teflon begins to crack.....

who cares

This is a fruitless order. They wil do what they want, just like they have for the last 8 years. Nixon must have been Bush's role model.

SO WHAT!!??

Gosh, I'm glad the court weighed in.
I'm sure Cheney will keep records of all of his meetings and notes.

I doubt the shredder will even slow down.

Who believes for a single second that the Bush administration will follow the judge's order? These criminals will walk scott free!

I mean, c'mon, they outed a CIA agent.
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Wait Bush did that? I thought the facts said he didn't, ya that's right you left wing nuts only listen to the other left wing nuts.

Aww, c'mon......they're all 'boy scouts' after all!

PSYCHE! ! !

The judge has essentially said not so fast buddy! Good ruling.

Exactly what makes anyone think that the Bush/Cheney crime syndicate will start paying any attention to what a court or judge demands?

Prepare for a flood of preemptive pardons any minute now for crimes ranging from torture to document destruction to outing CIA operatives.

6 days till the end of the Bush administration.

About time.. but I guess they had to give the idiots in chrge time to destroy the incriminating ones BEFORE this order came out.. I can hear them now "but we didn't KNOW that we could not destroy them.. wink wink" but then again bush can just say it is "executive privildge' and destroy them anyway so why bother with the courts bush has not listened to them yet

idiots

What makes anyone think that traitor-liars Bush and Cheney are going to start obeying the law now?

I mean, c'mon, they outed a CIA agent. You can't get much lower than that. Oh yeah, you can.

And, they did.

Cheney and Rumsfeld must be pooping their pants over this. You know that this administration couldn't wait to destroy the evidence of so much wrongdoing. Still, you have to wonder: In a world where OJ Simpson got off for killing his wife, where the Bush administration was able to break so many laws and kill so many innocents, in a world where Bush was able to steal his way into office in the first place... Will any of these crooks ever really be held to account and brought to justice? Doubtful.