RNC to Stop E-Mail Message Search
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 12:00 CST
The Republican National Committee backed off a pledge to search for thousands of e-mail messages sent by White House officials, a U.S. congressional panel said.
U.S. House of Representatives Democrats and public records advocates say the decision to end the computer search increases the likelihood that RNC e-mail concerning official White House business during U.S. President George Bush's first term won't be recovered, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The RNC previously told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee it was trying to restore e-mail from 2001-03 when purging messages after 30 days was policy.
During a hearing Wednesday, however, committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said the RNC says it has no intention of trying to restore the missing White House e-mails.
The result is a potentially enormous gap in the historical record, Waxman said.
RNC spokesman Danny Diaz said in a statement the national committee is fully compliant with the spirit and letter of the law, declining additional comment, the Post said.
The matter is part of a broader concern about whether the Bush administration complied with statutory requirements to preserve official White House records. The committee is investigating allegations that huge numbers of official e-mail messages disappeared from the White House.
Source: United Press International
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