Tuesday, March 18, 2008

White House E-Mail Battle Heats Up

ABC News reports White House E-Mail Battle Heats Up. The National Security Archive, a nonpartisan group affiliated with George Washington University sued the administration in September to restore the missing emails since federal law requires they be preserved.

"Judge Facciola rejected as 'draconian' a proposal by the Archive that would have forced the White House to quarantine every computer workstation it had. Instead, Facciola proposed the White House make a 'forensic copy' of all preservable data on every computer that could have been used by an employee between 2003 and 2005, the period in question. Observing that even that step is 'not without its costs,' Facciola gave the White House until close of business Friday to argue why it should not be required to make such copies."

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