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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (26520)	7/29/2000 6:41:59 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Intentionally altered...... White House Slows E-Mail Recovery UPI Saturday, July 29, 2000 WASHINGTON – Missing White House e-mail can be restored 25 times more quickly than White House officials have said, the Washington Post reported Friday. Experts from Ontrack Data International of Minneapolis, the world's largest data recovery firm, told a federal court that tests they conducted might have gone even faster if they had not been given computer test tapes set at slow copying speeds. Michael Norby, the Ontrack specialist who copied the tapes, said he believed the settings had been "intentionally altered," the Post said. Norby said he doubted the tapes were representative of the thousands of White House backup tapes containing the missing e-mail. Before Thursday's court hearing, White House officials had said it was taking their experts about 50 hours to copy each of the backup tapes. According to the Post, they described the effort as complicated work that made it impossible for them to submit all subpoenaed messages on the tapes to investigating agencies by late September. But Norby said he made a copy of a test tape last week in two hours and nine minutes. He then made another complete copy at the courthouse in less than two hours when lawyers representing the White House described the test as incomplete. Government witness Craig Ekberg denied the test tapes had been altered. He indicated that copying speeds vary depending on the age of each tape, according to the Washington Post. Ekberg's company has been monitoring the White House tape duplication efforts. The hearing followed a lawsuit by Judicial Watch on behalf of Reagan and Bush administration employees whose FBI files may have been improperly obtained by the Clinton administration. (C) 2000 UPI. All Rights Reserved.

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