Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.

日前，曾以未安装电子记录存档系统而对布什政府提起诉讼的两个组织表示，电脑技术人员已发现布什任职期间白宫遗失的2200万封电子邮件。奥巴马政府也正对布什在任期间可能遗失的更多邮件进行追查。

In this Jan. 12, 2009 file photo, President George W. Bush speaks during a news conference in the pressroom at the White House in Washington.

The two private groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics¹ in Washington and the National Security Archive档案馆，档案文件 — said Monday they were settling the lawsuits² they filed against the Executive Office of the President in 2007.

It will be years before the public sees any of the recovered e-mails because they will now go through the National Archives' process for releasing presidential and agency records. Presidential records of the Bush administration won't be available until 2014 at the earliest.

The tally³标签，计数器 of missing e-mails, the additional searches and the settlement are the latest development in a political controversy⁴ that stemmed from the Bush White House's failure to install a properly working electronic record keeping system. Two federal laws require the White House to preserve its records.

The two private organizations say there is not yet a final count on the extent of missing White House e-mail and there may never be a complete tally.

Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to the National Security Archive, said "many poor choices were made during the Bush administration and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records despite the fact that they were contending with对付，作斗争 regular subpoenas⁵传票 for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records."

"We may never discover the full story of what happened here," said Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. "It seems like they just didn't want the e-mails preserved."

Sloan said the latest count of misplaced错放 e-mails "gives us confirmation⁶ that the Bush administration lied when they said no e-mails were missing."