On September 25, 2007 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration in the District Court for the District of Columbia. CREW's action challenges as contrary to law those parties' knowing failure to recover, restore, and preserve millions of electronic communications created and/or received within the White House. The lawsuit stems from the millions of e-mails that were improperly deleted from White House servers and exist on back-up tapes, if at all.; FOIA Request: CREW versus EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ET AL (Lawsuit); Holder of Document: CREW; Producing Agency: Executive Office of the President; Date Received: 4/1/2010;
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CREW versus EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ET AL (Lawsuit): 4/1/2010 – OAP00037605
On September 25, 2007 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration in the District Court for the District of Columbia. CREW's action challenges as contrary to law those parties' knowing failure to recover, restore, and preserve millions of electronic communications created and/or received within the White House. The lawsuit stems from the millions of e-mails that were improperly deleted from White House servers and exist on back-up tapes, if at all.; FOIA Request: CREW versus EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ET AL (Lawsuit); Holder of Document: CREW; Producing Agency: Executive Office of the President; Date Received: 4/1/2010;
On September 25, 2007 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration in the District Court for the District of Columbia. CREW's action challenges as contrary to law those parties' knowing failure to recover, restore, and preserve millions of electronic communications created and/or received within the White House. The lawsuit stems from the millions of e-mails that were improperly deleted from White House servers and exist on back-up tapes, if at all.; FOIA Request: CREW versus EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ET AL (Lawsuit); Holder of Document: CREW; Producing Agency: Executive Office of the President; Date Received: 4/1/2010;
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 6:01 PM
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Ce:
Subject: [Please grant jaccess to the WHO files/Oversight Team - please
advise if there is a problem with doing WHO tomorrow morning
Approved -IIININNNI[can you pls create share ssho 2002, who 2008, who 2004
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Wearesday, Noverber 02,2005 4:52PM
oe ert access tothe WHO fes/Oversight Team - peace advise thee fa problem with doing WHO
fomorew morning
EEE P25 0700 RRR access to the WHO files. He currently can only see the OVP files from his
‘account.
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Oversight Toam - INI 2nd] are going to run the OVP analysis tonight and | told them that it should be OK to run
the WHO analysis in the morning - please advise if this is @ problem.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:42 PM
To:
Ce:
Subject: RE: Sul having problems getting utlity fo run on] machine,
Itjust ran successfully on a test file on my computer.
Will now run the program against the requested data
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:25 PM
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Subject i having problems getting uilfy fo run on machine
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Looks like there are some perms issues. Have directedJNEMto grant RWXD perms on the c:\ for I on the
workstation that IE will use. III wil then use the cmafiutlity on the workstation and run it against the server. this,
approach does not require the uliles to be installed on the server
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Subject raving problems getting clity to run on | machine
HRI 'o2r00 1 out with Microsot on tho phone. The app crestes an event login the :\ directory, so ts a
permissions issue. [Ml needs to be a local admin on his box and it will run fine. I going down to talk with I
about granting this. Thanks.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 022005 4:05 PM
To:
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Subject: Still having problems getting utility to run on| machine
Sill having problems - Adam is troubleshooting with Ill trying to get it to run on his machine.
Its working on I machine but ne is out and his office is locked.
Jdoesn't know what they di to get it working on machine and he seems to doubt itl work there when he logs-
manyway.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated since | know you wanted to get the analysis for OVP done today.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:39 PM
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subject:
a |- Approval needed for Active X install if needed (per I)
[E's sending IIE by to troubleshoot this with| If the Active X install is needed, IMJis requesting
‘OCIO Directors’ approval to proceed with the install. In case thats needed, could you please approve this now since my
understanding is that the Oversight Team wanted to get the OVP analysis completed today, Thanks,
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:23 PM
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Subject Jrgent request - need to have Active X installed on. to run the FindlUCMOFI utility
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‘The FindlvCMOF! utiity stil cannot be run on Itresults in Acitve X errors. We urgently need to have Active X
installed on immediately and request assistance troubleshooting any additional errors.
Thanks, Il
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:59 PM
To:
Ce:
‘Subject: New Action Tlem for
Importance: High
Wersignt Team
Per a 2:20 PM meeting, the Oversight Team requests that you and I together) run the CMOF! uty against he
OVP and WHO files and provide the resus ‘OANA for stogret anclysis, hore are 204 OVP fies anc 1946
WHO fies which | have extracted into separate spreadsheets for your reference nthe folowing folder. mss
teamlHistogram Analysis
Once you and llicomplete this work for OVP, please moet with III so that he can show you how fo create
the histogram.
Thanks,
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