Transfer of Bush e-mails held up by glitches, suits
Washington Post
12/21/08
The required transfer in four weeks of all of the Bush White House’s electronic-mail messages and documents to the National Archives has been imperiled by a combination of technical glitches, lawsuits and lagging computer forensic work, according to government officials, historians and lawyers. Federal law requires outgoing White House officials to provide the Archives with copies of their records, a cache estimated at more than 300 million separate messages and 25,000 boxes of documents depicting some of the most sensitive policymaking of the past eight years. But archivists are uncertain if the transfer will include all the electronic messages sent and received by the officials, because the administration began trying only in recent months to recover from White House backup tapes hundreds of thousands of e-mails that were reported missing from readily accessible files in 2005...
https://tinyurl.com/9r3dln
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Bush E-Mails May Be Secret a Bit Longer
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/22-4
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missing+emails
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=R.+Jeffrey+Smith
12/21/08
The required transfer in four weeks of all of the Bush White House’s electronic-mail messages and documents to the National Archives has been imperiled by a combination of technical glitches, lawsuits and lagging computer forensic work, according to government officials, historians and lawyers. Federal law requires outgoing White House officials to provide the Archives with copies of their records, a cache estimated at more than 300 million separate messages and 25,000 boxes of documents depicting some of the most sensitive policymaking of the past eight years. But archivists are uncertain if the transfer will include all the electronic messages sent and received by the officials, because the administration began trying only in recent months to recover from White House backup tapes hundreds of thousands of e-mails that were reported missing from readily accessible files in 2005...
https://tinyurl.com/9r3dln
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Bush E-Mails May Be Secret a Bit Longer
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/22-4
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missing+emails
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=R.+Jeffrey+Smith
rudkla - 22. Dez, 08:57
