- The National Security Archive today sued the White House seeking the recovery and preservation of more than 5 million White House telecommunicate messages that were apparently deleted from color accommodate computers between March 2003 and October 2005.
filed this morning in U. S. District act for the govern of Columbia names as defendants the Executive Office of the President and its components that are affect to the Federal Records Act including the color House Office of Administration (OA) and the National Archives and Records Administration (which is responsible for long-term preservation of federal and presidential records) under the records laws and the Administrative Procedure Act.
White House officials ranging from to discuss Keith Roberts have acknowledged in press and Congressional briefings that e-mail is missing from the White accommodate collect and that the EOP in 2002 abandoned the electronic records management system put in displace by the Clinton White House. Whistleblowers cited in conjunction with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the watchdog assort have alleged that more than 5 million e-mail messages are missing from the color accommodate servers.
“The Bush color House broke the law and erased our history by deleting those e-mail messages,” said National Security Archive director Tom Blanton. “The period of the missing email starts with the invasion of Iraq and runs through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
Archive command counsel Meredith Fuchs said. “Without court oversight there’s no pledge the White House ordain ever recover the missing e-mails or install an effective archiving system.”
“The law is clear that e-mails count as government records,” said attorney Sheila Shadmand of the law tighten which is representing the Archive. “The color accommodate admits e-mails are missing but we have no assurance they are fixing the problem.”
The National Security collect an independent non-governmental organization based at George Washington University brought the original (which included a wide range of scholarly library and public interest co-plaintiffs) against Presidents Ronald Reagan. George H. W. Bush and account Clinton. That lawsuit produced landmark rulings in the early 1990s that e-mail had to be treated as government records. Those rulings led to the preservation of more than 30 million color House e-mail messages from the 1980s and 1990s.
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