Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives

ColdWetDog writes "The New York Times reports that the soon-to-be-disbanded Bush / Cheney White House threatens to overload the National Archives with close to 100 Terabytes of data. This includes the Barney Cam and even 'formats not previously dealt with.' By way of comparison, the Clinton White House dumped less than a single terabyte into the archives. Of course, Mr. Cheney, always the Good Citizen, tried to help out when he 'asserted this month in a court case that he had absolute discretion to decide which of his records are official and which are personal, and thus do not have to be transferred to the archives.' Glad to see that somebody over there is trying to clean up the cruft for posterity."

Formats not dealt with?

[eggman9713]

'formats not previously dealt with.' If they can't open on a typical machine, they are probably just corrupt. Wait a second...

Re:Not much of a threat

[MichaelSmith]

You'd think the NSA would have it all archived anyway.

Re:For the uninformed..

[Yvanhoe]

Because, clearly, he has an archive folder as "president of senate" and "vice president". It is far from insane to suppose he also has a folder labeled "questionable documents" he will put in the archive less likely to go public.

Re:You must be kidding

[Anonymous Coward]

We demand honest criminals!

Re:100TB

[Firehed]

I hear you can't look at porn on the White House computers. NOW does it sound impressive?

Re:More to it than that

[TheRaven64]

they need to know exactly what the old administration was doing and why

The 'what' is probably relatively easy to answer. The 'why', I doubt even they know...

Make that 101 TB

[SupremoMan]

As a last addition, 1 TB of data was added to the archives. It contained all the news footage, replays, and parodies of the shoe-throwing incident.

Wow! So many HDs

[Anonymous Coward]

100 TB! Wow! That's about 60 hard disks or so! And I don't even want to imagine how much money you'd have to pay for those drives - it'd be a *four digit sum*!

Re:Wouldn't work here

[John Sokol]

>somebody has to look at it before it is added to an index.

Sure, they can just outsource it to India...

Re:It's just unreal

[HexaByte]

And Obama isn't a third Clinton administration? :-)

No, he's the second Carter administration!

Re:It's just unreal

[Zorque]

Expressing an opinion is something entirely different from a troll, and Dick Cheney is an objective scumbag. Anyone who thinks he's an honest or caring person is verifiably wrong. If the comment said something like "Every Republican should die" then that would probably be a troll, but saying that a senior party member will continue to have a large interest in the party after his tenure is both true (for any major party, not just the Republican party) and defensible.

You really should drop your persecution complex anyway, getting mad at left-leaning people's presence on Slashdot is like getting mad at a cow's presence at a farm.