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Calif
- "White
House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone." ... "The
[Republican President Bush] White House possesses no archived e-mail messages
for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the
President and the Office of the Vice President [Dick Cheney], for hundreds
of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal
White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat."
... "The 2005 study -- whose credibility the White House attacked this
week -- identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were
stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee Chairman [California Democratic Representative] Henry
A. Waxman (D-Calif.)." ... "Waxman said he decided to release the summary
after White House spokesman Tony Fratto said yesterday that there is "no
evidence" that any White House e-mails from those years are missing. Fratto's
assertion "seems to be an unsubstantiated statement that has no relation
to the facts they have shared with us," Waxman said." ... "The competing
claims were the latest salvos in an escalating dispute over whether the
[Republican President] Bush administration has complied with long-standing
statutory requirements to preserve official White House records -- including
those reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions -- for history
and in case of any future legal demands." ... "The White House is required
by law to preserve e-mails considered presidential or federal records,
and it is the target of several lawsuits seeking information about missing
data and efforts to preserve electronic communications." (1, 2)
-By Dan Eggen and Elizabeth Williamson
-WashingtonPost
Government
- Computer
- E-Mail
- Archives
- Law
- Politics
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US
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Iraq
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Military
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Intelligence
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Videotapes
- Presidential
Records Act - "White
House Tape Recycling May Have Erased Controversial E-Mails."
... "The [Republican President Bush] White House has acknowledged in a
new court filing that it routinely recycled computer backup tapes containing
its e-mail records until October 2003, a practice that could mean that
many electronic messages from the first two years of the [Republican President]
Bush administration are lost forever." ... "The disclosure raises the possibility
that the White House effectively erased e-mail related to some of the biggest
controversies of the Bush administration, including the leak of a CIA [Central
Intelligence Agency] officer's name, the start of the Iraq war and the
CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes." ... "The backups are meant
to preserve records in case of a disaster. They also serve a role in ensuring
that federal record-keeping laws are met, according to administration officials
and records management experts. Two separate statutes require the White
House to preserve federal or presidential records." ... "In their lawsuit,
the two advocacy groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
and the National Security Archive, allege that millions of e-mail messages
are missing from White House servers between 2003 and 2005." -By
Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost
Matt
Blunt
- E-Mails
- Politics
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Missouri
- Computer
- Archives
- 
Media
- "Governor
Blunt Lawsuit." ... "A new lawsuit claims that some
of [Missouri Republican] Governor Blunt's top aides instructed staffers
to delete e-mails so that damaging information could not be released."
... "Blunt's former deputy counsel Scott Eckersley filed the suit Wednesday.
Blunt fired Eckersley last September after he repeatedly told Blunt's aides
that the governor's office was deleting e-mails in violation of state law."
... "The suit alleges that Blunt's aides repeatedly told general counsels
to destroy e-mails so they could not be turned over to the media and the
public." ... "The suit says "All emails should be deleted to ensure they
did not have to provide such damaging evidence to the news media or the
public in the future". It says Eckersley informed Blunt's aides that "E-mails
were stored for a period of several years after deletion by the individual
user and were available even if deleted by that user."" ... "The suit then
claims that Blunt and his aides "Ordered that all these back-up e-mail
computer tapes be destroyed"." -By Erika Thomas with
contributions by Wale Aliyu -KOMU.com
Matt
Blunt- E-Mails
- Politics
- Missouri- Computer
- Archives
- "Blunt
ducks questions about e-mail deletion lawsuit." ...
"[Missouri Republican Governor] Gov. Matt Blunt ducked questions Thursday
about a lawsuit alleging his office intentionally deleted e-mails in violation
of open-records laws but defended the firing of the former staff attorney
who sued him. A whistleblower and defamation lawsuit filed Wednesday by
former Blunt attorney Scott Eckersley claims that top Blunt aides directed
staff in his office and other agencies to destroy e-mails to avoid providing
information sought under public records requests."
-AP via -KansasCity.com
Matt
Blunt
- E-Mails
- Politics
- Missouri
- Computer
- Archives
- Reporters
- "Suit
alleges illegal destruction of state e-mails." ...
"Scott Eckersley, a lawyer fired from [Missouri Republican Governor] Gov.
Matt Blunt's office, filed a suit today that accuses several top Blunt
aides of ordering the illegal destruction of state e-mails to prevent potentially
damaging messages from being turned over to reporters." ... "The suit contends
that Eckersley was fired for repeatedly pressing Blunt aides with warnings
that such orders violated state record-retention and open-records laws.
Eckersley's firing violated state law protecting whistle-blowers, according
to the lawsuit." ... "Filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, the suit names
Blunt, three former or current top aides and the deputy Office of Administration
commissioner, Richard AuBuchon." ... "The suit includes allegations about
a meeting convened last summer by Blunt's general counsel at the time,
Henry Herschel. At the meeting, the suit contends, Herschel told lawyers
for all departments under the governor that e-mails about state business
"would not have to be turned over in response to Sunshine Law requests
if they were destroyed and not retained."" ... "The suit also contends
that Blunt's chief of staff at the time, Ed Martin, ordered all staff members
to make sure they were deleting e-mails. Martin and other top Blunt aides
also are accused of orchestrating the destruction of the state's computer
backup system for such e-mails." -By Jo Mannies
-STLtoday.com
Secret
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Cheney
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David
Addington - Government
- Archives
- Law
- Politics
- "Challenging
Cheney: A National Archives official reveals what
the veep wanted to keep classified--and how he tried to challenge the rules."
... "J. William Leonard learned the hard way the perils of questioning
[Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney. The veteran National Archives
official challenged claims by the Office of Vice President (OVP) to be
exempt from federal rules governing classified information. His efforts
touched off a firestorm—and a counter-strike by Cheney's chief of staff,
David Addington, who tried to wipe out Leonard's job." ... "Now, Leonard
is quitting as director of the Archives' Information Security Oversight
Office (ISOO)—the unit that monitors the handling of government secrets.
He tells NEWSWEEK that his fight with Cheney's office was a "contributing"
factor in his decision to retire after 34 years of government service."
... "Leonard-described by National Archivist Allen Weinstein as "the gold
standard of information specialists in the federal government"-spoke to
NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff." ... "[Newsweek:] So how did matters escalate?"
... "[J William Leonard:] The challenge arose last year when the Chicago
Tribune was looking at [ISOO's annual report] and saw the asterisk [reporting
that it contained no information from OVP] and decided to follow up. And
that's when the spokesperson from the OVP made public this idea that because
they have both legislative and executive functions, that requirement doesn't
apply to them.…They were saying the basic rules didn't apply to them. I
thought that was a rather remarkable position. So I wrote my letter
to the Attorney General [asking for a ruling that Cheney's office had to
comply.] Then it was shortly after that there were [email] recommendations
[from OVP to a National Security Council task force] to change the executive
order that would effectively abolish [my] office." ... "[Newsweek:]
Who wrote the emails?" ... "[J William Leonard:] It was David Addington."
(1, 2, 3)
-By Michael Isikoff -Newsweek
Government
- E-Mail
- Electronic
- Messages
- Archives
- Politics
- "Judge
orders White House to hold e-mails." ... "A federal
judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails,
a move that [Republican President] Bush administration lawyers had argued
strongly against." ... "U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy directed the
Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response
to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether the White House has destroyed
e-mails in violation of federal law." ... "The organizations allege the
disappearance of 5 million White House e-mails." ... "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." -By Pete Yost
-AP via -Yahoo
US
- Iraq
- Military
- Hurricane
Katrina - Historical
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Secrets
- Archive
- Electronic
- Messages
- Presidential
Records Act - Government
- E-Mail
- Politics
- "White
House sued again over e-mail." ... "The [law]suit
by the National Security Archive, a private group, is the latest effort
to find out whether the [Republican President] Bush administration lost
millions of electronic messages." ... ""The period covers the period beginning
with the Iraq war until the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; it doesn't
get more historically valuable than that," said Tom Blanton, director of
the private organization, which advocates public disclosure of government
secrets." ... "The Federal Records Act and the Presidential Records Act
require that e-mail be preserved." -By Pete Yost
-AP via -SeattlePI
E-Mail
- Computer
- 
Tech
- 
Company
- Government
- 
Communications
- Archive
- Presidential
Records Act - Law
- Politics
- California
- "Bush
E-Mail Mystery Deepens: White House Won't Name Tech Contractor."
... "The [Republican President Bush] White House will not identify a private
company which appears to be involved in the disappearance of millions of
White House e-mails." ... "According to the White House, at least five
million e-mails were not properly archived and may be lost forever, in
apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act. The post-Watergate
law states that communications relating to official activity in the offices
of the president and vice president are owned by the American public and
cannot be destroyed." ... "The firm worked for the Information Assurance
Directorate, under the White House chief information officer, [California
Democratic Representative Henry] Waxman said he was told." -By
Justin Rood -ABCNEWS.com
Dick
Cheney
- Secrecy
- Intelligence
- Archives
- Law
- 
Enforcement
- Politics
- Government
- Calif
- "Cheney
Defiant on Classified Material: Executive Order Ignored
Since 2003." ... "[Republican] Vice President Cheney's office has refused
to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified
information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office
that sought to enforce those rules, according to documents released by
a congressional committee yesterday." ... "Since 2003, the vice president's
staff has not cooperated with an office at the National Archives and Records
Administration charged with making sure the executive branch protects classified
information. Cheney aides have not filed reports on their possession of
classified data and at one point blocked an inspection of their office.
After the Archives office pressed the matter, the documents say, Cheney's
staff this year proposed eliminating it." ... "The aggressive efforts to
protect the operations of his staff have usually pitted Cheney against
lawmakers, interest groups or media organizations, sometimes going all
the way to the Supreme Court. But the fight about classified information
regulation indicates that the vice president has resisted oversight even
by other parts of the Bush administration. Cheney's office argued that
it is exempt from the rules in this case because it is not strictly an
executive branch agency." ... ""He's saying he's above the law," said [California
Democratic Representative] Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which released a series
of correspondence yesterday outlining the situation. "It just seems to
me this is arrogant and shows bad judgment."" -By
Peter Baker -WashingtonPost
Dick
Cheney
- Secret
- Intelligence
- Archives
- Law
- Politics
- "Congressman:
Cheney challenges classified oversight." ... "[Republican]
Vice President Dick Cheney's office refused to cooperate with an agency
that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when
it challenged the actions, House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman
said." ... "The National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office
is charged by presidential order with ensuring that classified information
and documents are properly handled by executive branch agencies." ... ""I
question both the legality and wisdom of your actions," [California Democratic
Representative Henry] Waxman, D-California, wrote in a letter Thursday
to Cheney." ... ""Your decision to exempt your office from the president's
order is problematic because it could place national security at risk,"
wrote Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee."
-Contributed to by Adam Levine and Suzanne Malveaux
-CNN
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