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 – OAP00037934
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: _ Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:21 PM
To:
‘Subject: FW: Request for SIS to run 3 scrips and perform 2 clean-up manual operations on as
authorized by Oversight Team
Dill cally have to bring everyone back into the thread? He couldn't have just work directly with IH to
resolve and provide status on findings and the fix?
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:07 PM
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ce:
‘Subject: RE: Request for SIS to run 3 scrips and perform 2 clean-up manual operations on as
authorized by Oversight Team
ME. my mistake, I transposed a column in the OVP_29 script. I will fix it and resend. Thanks.
‘Subject: RE: Request for SIS to run 3 scrips and perform 2 clean-up manual operations on as
authorized by Oversight Team
HEME that docs not matter. The OVP script is not invalid. It is designed to pull from
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:58 PM
To:
——o FW: Request for SIS to run 3 scrips and perform 2 clean-up manual operations on as
authorized by Oversight Team
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| ran through the manual processes last night before running the scripts. In doing so the OVP copy script is now
invalid, because the files no longer exist on We now need a script to copy these files from
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‘Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:24 AM
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‘Subject: FW: Request for SIS to run 3 scrips and perform 2 clean-up manual operations on as
‘authorized by Oversight Team
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Lets go ahead and get hese started. Send Robacopy logs directly to lll once complete.
From:
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:53 PM
‘Subject: Request for SIS to run 3 scrips and perform 2 clean-up manual operations on ‘as authorized
by Oversight Team
Please find attached 3 scripts for the following the 1) UNK, 2) UNK-SR and 3) 29 OVP files that were
moved by someone without authorization. These can be converted to *.cmd files. Please have
HEEB send the Robocopy logs to me as each one is completed.
‘Also, as authorized by the Oversight Team this morning, please do the following manually:
1) Move/relocate the g:\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005 february 28th, 2005_ma(2).pst file (with a create
date of 3/3/2005) to the __\[S\lssues (Issues folder) since it's not in the master spreadsheet and we
do not know where it came from.
2) Delete a total of 29 OVP files that were moved without authorization from the following directories
on E
5 files in E\ovp\pa-duplicate\
24 files in gAovp\pa-duplicate
Here's a listing of these 29 files FYI:
lovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2004 jan-feb, 2004_ma(1).pst
lovp\p2-duplicatelovp_2004 jan-feb, 2004_ma(2).pst
‘fAlovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2004 jan-feb, 2004_ma.pst
fovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2004 january 13th, 2004_ma.pst
flovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2004 january 15th, 2004_ma.pst
gi\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005 february 28th, 2005_ma(1).pst
grlovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2008 february 28th, 2005_ma.pst
g\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005 march Sth, 2005_ma.pst
gilovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005 friday, april 01, 2005_ma(2).pst
glovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_friday, april 01, 2005_ma.pst
gi\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_friday, march 25, 2005_ma(2)pst
grlovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_friday, march 25, 2005_ma.pst
glovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_friday, may 20, 2005_ma(2).pst
gi\ovp\pa-duplicate\ovp_2008_friday, may 20, 2005_ma(3).pst
grlovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_friday, may 20, 2005_ma.pst
gr\ovp\pa-duplicate\ovp_2005_monday, march 07, 2005_ma(2).pst
gi\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_monday, march 07, 2005_ma(3).pst
grlovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_monday, march 07, 2008_ma.pst
gi\ovp\pa-duplicate\ovp_2005_thursday, march 17, 2005_ma.pst
gilovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_tuesday, april 12, 2005_ma(2).pst
g\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_tuesday, april 12, 2005_ma.pst
gilovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_tuesday, march 15, 2005_ma(2).pst
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govp\pa-duplicatelovp_2008_tuesday, march 15, 2005_ma.pst
‘g\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_tuesday, may 10, 2005_ma(2) pst
‘govp\pa-duplicatelovp_2008 tuesday, may 10, 2005_ma(3).pst
‘govp\pa-duplicatelovp 2005 tuesday, may 10, 2005_ma(4).pst
‘g\ovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005_tuesday, may 10, 2005_ma.pst
‘lovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2008 wednesday, april 20, 2005_ma(2).pst
ilovp\pa-duplicatelovp_2005 wednesday, april 20, 2005_ma pst
‘Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:48 PM
To:
‘Subject: RE: 3 heads-up - 3 new RoboCopy Scripts coming today for SIS to run tonight
(Ok, thanks.
up ~ 3 new RoboCopy Scripts coming t to run tonight
HME this is a heads-up that I will be sending you 3 new RoboCopy Scripts coming today for SIS to run
tonight. Thanks, I
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