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Administration Plays Hide and Seek With Missing E-Mails

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Posted on Aug 22, 2007

In an apparent effort to keep the estimated 5 million missing White House e-mails missing, the Justice Department is claiming that the White House Office of Administration, which handles IT support for the executive branch, is not covered by freedom-of-information law. Press-freedom advocate Lucy Dalglish notices a trend: “When they don’t want to comply with the law, they just shamelessly argue they are not subject to the law.”


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In its filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department acknowledged that the White House office “currently has regulations implementing” the Freedom of Information Act and has not previously taken the position that it is exempt from the disclosure requirements.

The department cited a court ruling in the 1990s that the National Security Council was not subject to the disclosure law.

According to the suit, the Office of Administration has prepared estimates saying at least 5 million e-mails from March 2003 to October 2005 are missing from the White House.

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By Outraged, August 23, 2007 at 11:38 pm Link to this comment

Now, they’re fighting over the release of emails they claim they don’t have, remember, they’re LOST!

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By purplewolf, August 23, 2007 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment

# 96529to B:

Better yet, how about one of those “black box” train cars with the shackles welded to the walls inside. We could give each corrupt(means all of them)politition a first class seat(standing up) in one of these totally new air controled (air tight, no windows)train cars and have them run out of the country on a rail,a slow one at that,to one of those all new totally fabulous vacation sites known as the FEMA relocation center(concentration camp)than holds about 2 million people in Alaska.Watch out though, that isn’t a dry heat room, it’s an incinerator.

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By ~B~, August 23, 2007 at 9:11 am Link to this comment

#96520 by farmertx on 8/23 at 7:12 am

Keeps their lil political machine well lubricated with bucks doesn’t it. Unfortunately it doesn’t work the same for the treasury or the average citizens personal “wealth”.

This is what happens when a government is left unattended for 20+ years. At this point I’d like to leave our government unattended in a car with the windows up on a HOT sunny day.

B

http://b-political.blogspot.com/

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By farmertx, August 23, 2007 at 8:12 am Link to this comment

Ain’t it nice to have an AG who will do whatever you want him to do?
And a Supreme Court that will back that up.
Plus a Congress that is more concerned with keeping the bribes flowing than doing their duty under the Constitution that they swore to protect.

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