Posted by Amy Dugdale on Wed, May 20, 2009 @ 04:33 PM
As CNN reported yesterday, the Bush White House doesn't have to turn over email records. According to the story,
[A] three-judge panel in Washington concluded the Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act over disclosure of its documents because "it performs only operational and administrative tasks in support of the President and his staff and therefore, under our precedent, lacks substantial and independent authority."
This case and the "missing" emails have been long-standing headline makers over the last few years. Watching each development has given many of us in the messaging industry our own little soap opera to follow (with plot twists and turns almost good enough for Hollywood). From the disclosure that the emails were lost due to an archiving hardware failure to the day that the emails were mysteriously "found" - each episode leaves us biting our nails and wondering what's next. Now we've got a ruling in the ongoing lawsuit filed by private groups like Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). What's next? The long-awaited sequel to Tom Hanks' "You've Got Mail" - "Dude, Where's My Email?"