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 – OAP00053447
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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Naney Smith - Re: Fwd: Question from OA Counsel
From: — Lewis Bellardo
To: Smith, Nancy; Stem, GaryM
Date: 5/20/2004 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Question from OA Counsel 7 ,
CC: Baron, Jason; Carlson, Michael; Fawcett, Sharon; Kurtz, Michael; Lowell, Howard;
Spangler, Robert; Watkins, Sam; Wester, Paul
Thanks, Nancy. Others?
>>> Nancy Smith 05/20/04 09:35AM >>>
Lew & Gary et al:
For the Presidential record creating staff, I (Sharon is out of town, but we talked before she left and she
agrees with the following comment) would think that on the hard drives we would, as
we did during Clinton, want the White House to let us they consider that unique
In the case of Clinton, the Clinton Counsel we were had a concer that
there was unique Presidential record information on the hard drives they decided on the current
process. Since NARA does not really know the current White Howee practice with saving information to
ihese drives, and since my guess is that there is going to be the cone Problem - that no one can say there
Gne other option is that the White House can write the Archivig asking for his view on disposing of
(hese drives saying that the information is mostly duplicative and are not warrant retention and then
We could sample some of the ‘snapshots’ to see if we think they can unique PRA information that
warrants retention.
Since my staffs experience on actually looking ata few White House hard drives is with the Bush 1
hard drives that were saved, Ican say that some of these Just contain systems information that would not
be record, and some, on the other hand, contain word Processing files that are definitely PRA records,
"think that this issue probably does warrant a meeting to Bet mor knowledge about current White House
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