Reply #14: WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act

[L. Coyote]

WITHOUT A TRACE: THE MISSING WHITE HOUSE EMAILS AND THE VIOLATIONS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27607

12 Apr 2007 // Washington, DC — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today has released a report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act, detailing the legal issues behind the story of the White House e-mail scandal.

In a startling new revelation, CREW has also learned through two confidential sources that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost over five million emails generated between March 2003 and October 2005. The White House counsel’s office was advised of these problems in 2005 and CREW has been told that the White House was given a plan of action to recover these emails, but to date nothing has been done to rectify this significant loss of records.

Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW, said today, “It’s clear that the White House has been willfully violating the law, the only question now is to what extent? ......

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* 04/12/07: "Without a Trace" Report // 2.6 mb = http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27605
* 04/12/07: "Without a Trace" Executive Summary // 81.7 kb = http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27604
* 04/12/07: "Without a Trace" Exhibits // 4.6 mb = http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27608