Monday, April 28, 2008

Court expands White House email order

A judge tells the Bush administration to collect and preserve all email in .pst files; millions are missing.

Concerned over contradictory White House statements about the government's controversial email archiving efforts, a U.S. district judge April 24 <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Court-Expands-White-House-Missing-EMail-Order/?kc=EWKNLNAVFEA1">ordered the Bush administration to collect and preserve all emails</A> in .pst files for individuals employed at the White House between March 2003 and October 2005. Millions of White House email are missing from the period.

The White House admits emails are missing but insists the emails are on back-up tapes and drives that as yet haven't been located. Federal law requires the preservation of all White House email. The period of time covered by the order includes the start of the Iraq war, the Valerie Plame affair and the White House response to Hurricane Katrina.

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