Group sues White House over email

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Source: Guardian Unlimited

A private firm today filed a lawsuit claiming the White House illegally abandoned an automatic archiving system for its email in 2002.

The legal move, taken by National Security Archive (NSA), a group advocating the public disclosure of government secrets, is the latest attempt to find out whether the Bush administration lost millions of electronic messages.

Email problems at the White House first came to light during a special investigation into the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent in 2003, and the issue was raised again this year during inquiries into the role of presidential aides in firing US attorneys.

Henry Waxman, a Democratic House of Representatives committee chairman, today set a deadline of Monday for the White House counsel, Fred Fielding, to hand over a White House-prepared analysis of the situation.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2163703,00.html

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1. fred fielding, former general counsel for bilgewater

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2. Yet another committee deadline for the White House to ignore.

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3. Leahy is still wants Rove's missing but recently found emails, says he will continue

to ask Bush to produce.