White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records

An anonymous reader writes "The White House Office of Administration is not required to turn over records about a trove of possibly missing e-mails, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the agency does not have 'substantial independent authority,' so it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act."

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Ah well, that's okay

[Skyshadow]

Openness is overrated in democratic societies, anyhow. I'm sure they wouldn't be keeping this all a secret if it weren't in the best interests of the people.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go send my credit card numbers to these nice former Nigerian heads of state.

don't worry about it folks

[circletimessquare]

if you can't get the transparency from your democratic government that you deserve, petition the chinese government to air their copies of our government's email

i'm sure they have a copy of the inboxes in question sitting around somewhere

thank god for shoddy us government computer security and snooping totalitarian regimes: securing the transparency in our democracy that we deserve!