From Nextgov.com: White House ordered to search employee computers for missing e-mails
Directive, which includes memory sticks, CDs and DVDs, is part of an effort to find messages from a period of more than two years.
A federal court ordered on Wednesday all employees working in the Bush White House to surrender media that might contain e-mails sent or received during a two and a half year period, in hopes of locating missing messages before President-elect Barack Obama takes over next week.