we can listen to your phones but you can't investigate us! [Politics/Religion]

It would be costly and time-consuming for the White House to institute an e-mail retrieval program that entails pulling data off each individual workstation

  

I'm not defending this administration on anything but... 

It's the White House.  Doesn't it stand to reason they have scores/hundreds/thousands of highly sensitive emails on their systems?  Closed systems with NSA type protection schemes, so on, so forth.  It strikes me that ANY administration would be very reluctant to just "turn it over" to some judge with all the associated potential security leaks.

These guys are wankers, no argument, but I can kinda see their point.  I think every administration would feel the same way.  We know the last one did.