Reply #225: April 20 UPDATE: Investigation of White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts

[L. Coyote]

http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?ID=251

Investigations
White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts

After three congressional investigations – the investigation into Jack Abramoff’s contacts with the White House, the examination of politicization of the General Services Administration, and the investigation of the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys – brought to light the White House’s extensive use of nongovernmental e-mail accounts to conduct official business, the Committee directed the RNC and the Bush Cheney ’04 campaign to preserve e-mails to or from accounts held by White House officials.

In order to ensure compliance with both the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act, the Committee asked the RNC to produce e-mails that related to the use of federal agencies and federal resources for partisan political purposes.

Following staff briefings with the White House and the RNC, the Committee has reason to believe that many e-mails related to official government business may have been deleted from the RNC’s servers. As a secondary measure to obtain these e-mails, the Committee asked federal agencies to preserve any e-mails they received from or sent to these political accounts.


Chronology (NOTE: Seven Pages, one entry here linked)

Friday, April 20, 2007
Committee to Consider Subpoena for RNC Documents Related to White House E-mails (http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1259)

Chairman Waxman informs the RNC that the Oversight Committee will meet on April 25 to consider a subpoena for documents relating to possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act by White House officials.

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