Remember those emails that went missing during the Republican Bush/Cheney administration?  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW sued the Bush Administration in September of 2007 hoping to force the White House to recover the missing emails.

It now seems the case is nearing settlement and many of the emails have been recovered.  These emails would include many that were sent during the outing of Valerie Plame, the resulting scandal and the ‘Scooter’ Libby mess.

From Mother Jones:

Restoration of missing emails promises to be the trickiest part of the settlement agreement. The White House first ran into archiving problems in 2003, but didn’t begin to address the problem until October 2005. Only in the final days of the Bush administration did the White House begin working with contractors—including software giant Microsoft—to find missing messages. The emails could potentially shed light on a range of historic events and nagging controversies, including details about the lead-up to the Iraq war and the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA identity.

The White House said earlier this year that between 10 and 20 million emails have been recovered that were either mislabeled or lost. Some of the emails were resurrected from backup tapes covering days when White House analysts believed there were suspiciously low counts of archived emails, indicating that messages were not being captured. (In January, the administration transferred nearly 100,000 backup tapes to the National Archives.) Many of the emails in question can be requested under the Freedom of Information Act beginning in 2014, five years after the close of the Bush administration.

The final settlement of the emails case would be another major victory for transparency advocates and one more concrete step the Obama administration has taken to live up to its pledge of improving government accountability. In late November, the White House agreed to release most of its visitor logs on a regular basis—an unprecedented move. Earlier this week, the Office of Management and Budget released a new government-wide open government directive, complete with tough, verifiable deadlines for agencies to improve transparency. Before the end of the month, the administration may also release a new declassification policy that focuses on openness.

Read the rest here  http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/exclusive-white-house-emails-case-nearing-settlement

Now you see why I say this could get really interesting.  How soon the public will see these emails, I don’t know, but just that they have been recovered is a giant step in the right direction.  Don’t hold your breath waiting to see more about this in the main stream press, Tiger Woods or some other current celebrity scandal is far more important to them.  Cheney the Dick cannot be happy about this.

Enough said.