
Older <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/white_house_e_mail">White House computer hard drives have been destroyed,</A> the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing emails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an email recovery plan that the court proposed.
It has been the goal of a White House Office of Administration "refresh program" to replace one-third of its workstations every year in the Executive Office of the President, according to the declaration. Some, but not necessarily all, of the data on old hard drives is moved to new computer hard drives, the declaration added.