US DISTRICT JUDGE Orders WH To Preserve All Copies Of Its E-Mails & Back-up Tapes

[kpete]

Judge to White House: Hold E-Mails

Monday November 12, 2007 9:31 PM


By PETE YOST

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against.

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Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes.

``The judge decided that wasn't enough,'' said Anne Weismann, an attorney for CREW, which has gone to court over secrecy issues involving the Bush administration and has pursued ethical issues involving Republicans on Capitol Hill.

The judge's order ``should stop any future destruction of e-mails, but the White House stopped archiving its e-mail in 2003 and we don't know if some backup tapes for those e-mails were already taped over before we went to court. It's a mystery,'' said Meredith Fuchs, a lawyer for the National Security Archive.


more at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7071712,00.html

[JDPriestly]

1. Do you suppose that copies of the Bush administration's own

e-mails and its e-mails to the Republican National Committee in that database it obtained through electronic surveillance that is described by Mark Klein, the AT&T whistleblower?

If not, why not?