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"Even before VP nomination, Palin's e-mail use questioned." ... "Moments after [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska Governor] Gov. Sarah Palin's first speech as Republican [2008 Election Presidential Candidate] John McCain's running mate, she sat with her kids backstage, thumbing one of the two BlackBerrys that are always with her." ... "The tech-savvy governor has one of the devices (which allow users to read and send e-mails) for state business and another for personal matters, but those worlds intertwine." ... "Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business. Others in the governor's office sometimes use personal e-mail accounts, too." ... "The practice raises questions about backdoor secrecy in an administration that vowed during the 2006 campaign to be "open and transparent."" ... "Even before the McCain campaign plucked Palin from Alaska, a controversy was brewing over e-mails in the governor's office. Was the administration trying to get around the public records law through broad exemptions or private e-mail accounts?" ... "The governor's Yahoo account is "the most nonsensical, inane thing I've ever heard of," said Andree McLeod, who is appealing the administration's decision to withhold e-mails." ... ""The governor sets the tone and the tone that has been set by this governor is beyond the pale," McLeod said. "Common sense tells you to use an official state e-mail account for official state business."" ... "State lawyers say that the governor's e-mails about public business should be treated like any other public record, even if she's sent them through a private account such as Yahoo." ... "Some of her aides also routinely use Yahoo, but even messages sent from one private account to another should be public, if they concern public business, said Dave Jones, an assistant attorney general." ... ""The difficulty is finding out they exist," Jones said." ... "The [Republican President] Bush administration has drawn heat over revelations that more than 80 White House aides, including senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, used private GOP e-mail servers for government business. The controversy surfaced during congressional investigations into White House contacts with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and into the firings of U.S. attorneys." -By Lisa Demer -ADN.com via -McClatchyDC.com 
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Palin - E-Mails
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Election
"Palin asked to release her husband's e-mails." ... "Can [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska Governor] Gov. Sarah Palin legally keep e-mails between her husband and her administration from being released to the public?" ... "That's the question the lawyer of Andree McLeod, a self-described Republican watchdog, put to the governor last week in an appeal to disclose e-mails between her administration and her husband, Todd." ... "Those e-mails could shed light on how Gov. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, runs the state. And they could also help reveal what role Todd Palin, who the state Legislature's special investigator called a "central figure" in the governor's firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, played in his wife's administration." ... "In July, the governor's office refused to disclose the contents of about 40 e-mails between Todd Palin and Gov. Palin's administration as part of a larger public records request by McLeod. Other e-mails between Todd Palin and the governor's staff were released, McLeod said, but had some parts redacted. Todd Palin is copied as a recipient on most of the e-mails but also authored a few." ... "Some of the subject lines of the withheld e-mails, which were created between [February] Feb. 1 and [April] Apr. 15. of this year, included: "Andrew Halcro," and "PSEA." Halcro is a political rival of Palin. The PSEA is the union that represents the Alaska State Troopers, including trooper Mike Wooten, who is divorced from Gov. Palin's sister and is also a key figure in the investigation of Monegan's firing." ... "In redacting or denying the request for e-mails, the governor's office mostly cited Gov. Palin's right to a "deliberative process privilege," a law designed to let public officials receive candid advice from their staff and consultants regarding matters of the state without fear of that advice going public." ... "But McLeod's lawyer, Donald Mitchell, said Gov. Palin waived that privilege when Todd Palin was included in her staff's e-mails. Documents released to one member of the public have to be available to all members of the public, he said." ... ""Mr. Palin is a private citizens whose only connection to the office of the governor is that, at your invitation, he from time to time is physically present in the offices of ... the governor for no reason other than that he is your spouse," Mitchell wrote in his appeal directly to the governor." ... "Those who pay attention to Alaska's public records laws said Mitchell's legal argument holds water." ... "Larry Persily, a former Empire editor who recently finished working for Gov. Palin in Washington D.C., said he would bet his Alaska Permanent Fund dividend that a judge would agree with him that Gov. Palin has no claims to the deliberative process privilege once her administration's e-mail discussions include her husband." ... ""The dike has got a hole in it, it's over," Persily said. " -By Alan Suderman -JuneauEmpire.com
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Dick
Cheney- Government
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History
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Records Act - Archives
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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
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Intelligence
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Videotapes
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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
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Missouri
- Computer
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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
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