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White House Press Secretary's Tweets Archived

Posted by samzenpus on from the for-future-generations dept.

RedTeflon writes "The White House spokesman, who has just started using Twitter, told reporters this afternoon that he met with government lawyers yesterday to determine whether his tweets would be archived along with emails and just about everything else produced at the White House. After deliberation, White House lawyers have decided that any and all tweets will be archived in keeping with the Presidential Records Act of 1978."

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  1. The National Archives are going to love this by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look at this on the bright side -- the librarians at the National Archives won't have to strain their backs to lift and catalogue a tiny collection of 140-character messages. Must be a nice break next to the 5,000 page budget proposals they've gotten used to seeing.

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    -- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
  2. Presidential tweets by nicknamenotavailable · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, am glad that twitter wasn't around when Clinton was president.

    tmi about Clinton already, what happens at the next scandal?