. . . When the Doves Cry

The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been a harsh critic of the Bush administration for just about anything and everything. Well, after the Bush White House failed to install electronic record-keeping for e-mail when switching to a new system, it turned out that millions of messages could not be found. Naturally, CREW assumed a vast-right wing conspiracy afoot and launched a lawsuit, accusing the Bush administration of trying to hide something.

The Bush-led Justice Department thereafter attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, but when Obama was elected President, hope was renewed for CREW. After all, with left-leaning progressives in control, surely things would be different . . . wouldn't they?

Not on this issue. Turns out that the Justice Department is also trying to get the lawsuit dismissed. Ouch.

But unlike their scathing criticisms of the Bush administration, CREW was much more subdued this go around, merely fretting in mild terms that the Obama administration should do more to "adequately preserve records belonging to the American people." Just a disagreement between gentleman, in other words. How very civil of them.

And for the record, I'm sure many Americans are just chomping at the bit at the thought of being able to wade through hundreds of thousands of mispelled emails from lower level employees asking each other what time the staff meeting is or whether they should go to McDonalds or Burger King for lunch.