It is now discovered that the Bush administration had used a private E-mail server hosted by the Republican Party during one of the
The 90-day period during which the 22 million E-mails were sent saw the controversial sacking of eight federal prosecutors in the Justice department and several other scandals of the Bush Administration.
One could argue that the government will run best if left to its own devices. Citizens may have the right to know where nuclear missles are hidden, but they don't need to know everthing about the government, things that would probably upset and confuse them. Many other sucessful democracies have provisions keeping national secrets safe.
However, the only reason these 22 million (That's with six zeros, by the way) missing e-mails, sent during the critical moments before the Iraq War, were recovered is by pressure from Capitol hill by two groups–Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive--filed lawsuits over the failure of the Bush White House to install an electronic record-keeping system.
Furthermore, after Watergate, the government is mandated to keep a record of all its communications- including E-mails. That the Republican Party went to the trouble of hosting its own server does not look like the work of an organization with nothing to hide.
Still, however, these E-mails might be nothing more than "George W. talking about baseball and pretzels stuck in his throat". Then we probably don't need to know at all.
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