The New York Times reports: Judge Backs White House in Dispute Over E-Mail. This is the email that was at the time of the Plame affair and Iraq decisions.
"A federal judge ruled on Monday that a White House office did not have to make public its records about millions of e-mail messages that may be missing. The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court here, said the White House Office of Administration was not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, allowing the White House to maintain the secrecy of an internal paper trail about its problem-plagued e-mail system."
"The functions of the Office of Administration “are strictly administrative,” Judge Kollar-Kotelly said in her ruling. She said that the Office of Administration had no authority over others in the executive branch and that it was dedicated exclusively to providing services to the executive office of the president." I don't know why that matters. People at the bottom of the org chart of our government aren't subject to FISA?
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