The Bush administration has not found disaster recovery files for White House e-mails from a three-month time period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of Iraq may never be recovered.
That period was one of the most crucial of the Bush presidency. The United States launched the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, and
President Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1.
Two federal statutes require presidential communications, including e-mails involving senior White House aides, to be preserved for the nation's historical record.
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