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White House Ordered to Preserve All Email
Verunks writes "A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether e-mails have been destroyed in violation of federal law. The issue surfaced in the leak probe of administration officials who disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity. ' The Federal Records Act details strict standards prohibiting the destruction of government documents including electronic messages, unless first approved by the archivist of the United States. Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes. The judge's order "should stop any future destruction of e-mails, but the White House stopped archiving its e-mail in 2003 and we don't know if some backup tapes for those e-mails were already taped over before we went to court. It's a mystery," said Meredith Fuchs, a lawyer for the National Security Archive.'"
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Since AT&T has been spying on everyone since spring of 2000, why not ask them for copies of Whitehouse and NRC.com emails?
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She said she has seen some news reports that some court has ordered the White House to preserve all emails, mails and such records. But she has checked her emails just a minute ago and there is no such order there.
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Unfortunately, the court order was sent via email, and was filtered along with all judicial and legislative correspondence, directly to the Trash.
And so it continues...
Why shouldn't we get to see their emails? After all, if they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide.
Oh, wait...
Yeah, now all the terrorists have to do to bring down the US government is to send lots of emails with really big attachments to vice_president@whitehouse.gov.
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This just in: archivist reports that 18.5 minutes worth of presidential e-mails contain nothing but whitespace.
"Slow down, Cowboy! It has been 3 years, 7 months and 26 days since you last successfully posted a comment."
What Republicans told me and the rest of the world for the past 7 years:
If you're not guilty, you won't mind being searched - so now we have to search you much more closely. Mr Bush, please drop your drawers.
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