mr. ferriero, your predecessor, alan weinstein, write to the white house counsel and said this, it is essential that the white house move with the utmost dispatch both in assessing any problems that may exist with preserving e-mail and in taking whatever action may be necessary to restore any missing e-mail. those bush era documents were also pertinent to criminal and congressional investigation. in '06, special prosecutor patrick fitzgerald hit a road block when e-mails relating to the valerie plame leak investigation went missing. fitzgerald explained, and i quote, not all e-mail of the office of the vice president and the executive office of the president for certain time periods in '03 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the white house computer system. in '09, the department of justice investigated a so-called torture memo, but one key bush administration official's relevant e-mails had been, quote, deleted and reportedly were not recoverecoverable. i understand you were not the archivist in the previous administration but i assume you agree that the irs is not the only a