Two watchdog groups that sued the Bush administration over 22 million missing e-mails said computer technicians have found or reconstructed the documents and are settling their lawsuit. The issue dates from 2006, when congressional committees demanded documents related to the White House firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
While the e-mails have been recovered, they will not necessarily be released; the National Archives must now determine which of them may be released under the Freedom of Information Act. Former Bush officials said there had never been any effort to hide the e-mails. But activist Anne Weismann said they never would have been located “but for our lawsuits and pressure from Capitol Hill.”
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