THE BUSH administration has destroyed countless emails during a crucial part of US history in the interests, it claims, of saving disk space.

According to the Washington Post, the mails related to the first three years of the Bush administration.

Problems that Bush faced were little issues like the Iraq war, the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson's name and the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes.

Any hope of history finding any answers to those questions in emails have been squashed because while the White House felt it was important to back up the emails, it claims it felt it could save a few quid by wiping.

Classically a White House spokesman Tony Fratto said he has “no reason to believe” any e-mails were deliberately destroyed because the wiping was routine.

Apparently the most powerful office in the land used the same backup tape each day to copy new as well as old e-mails, he said, making it possible that some of those e-mails could still be recovered even from a tape that was repeatedly overwritten.

For some reason, this state of affairs was not noticed until the White House was involved in couple of court cases. µ