Constitutional Law

White House Admits To Failing to Preserve Additional Emails

According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the White House admitted it failed to preserve any backup tapes for emails from March 1, 2003 to May 22, 2003. The administration previously admitted it did not keep backup tapes for September 30, 2003 to October 6, 2003. CREW notes that the earlier period coincided with the US invasion of Iraq, which took place from March 20 to May 1, and the latter period coincided with a Justice Department investigation into the disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert identity

The White House’s declaration is available here.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).