Failed to safeguard emails
A
federal court has slammed into the Bush White House for losing millions of
emails relating to the crucial policy decisions.
In a four-page opinion,
Magistrate Judge John Facciola said the White House ignored the court's
instructions to search a full range of locations for all electronic messages
that may be missing. Instead the Executive Office of the President is only
looking in areas subject to the requirements of the Federal Records Act. Bush
has ignored the preservation requirements of the Presidential Records
Act.
Initially the Bush White House claimed that no records created in an
office covered by the Presidential Records Act were covered by the Federal
Records Act. When this was proved wrong Facciola ordered a search of all
offices regardless of which law covers a White House office.
Facciola slammed
the White House for not previously conducting a search of individual
workstations as the magistrate had recommended in a report last April.
