A federal court has slammed into the Bush White House for losing millions of emails relating to the crucial policy decisions.

In a four-page opinion, Magistrate Judge John Facciola said the White House ignored the court's instructions to search a full range of locations for all electronic messages that may be missing.  Instead the Executive Office of the President is only looking in areas subject to the requirements of the Federal Records Act.  Bush has ignored the preservation requirements of the Presidential Records Act.

Initially the Bush White House claimed that no records created in an office covered by the Presidential Records Act were covered by the Federal Records Act. When this was proved wrong  Facciola ordered a search of all offices regardless of which law covers a White House office.

Facciola slammed the White House for not previously conducting a search of individual workstations as the magistrate had recommended in a report last April.