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 – OAP00037980
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 09, 2005 1:59 PM
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‘Subject: RE: Message Store Project Dally Update and Team Action Items for 11/09/2005 - Correction
MST- the mast inventory spreadsheet has been updated (version 28) to reflect the following:
1) Update master spreadsheet and write script to copy 14 UNK files to Issues folder on IS.
2) Update master spreadsheet and write script to copy 1069 UNK-SR files to Issues folder on IS.
3) Update master spreadsheet to reflect creation of H$ drive for OMB for 2005 files.
III- since OMB is now updated, you can start the OMB IV&V as well.
EES - dic the fix from lll from yesterday resolve the discrepancy with the 230 OA Issues files?
‘Subject: RE: Message Store Project Daily Update and Team Action Items for 11/09/2005 - Correction
Correction to MMM Action Item:
HE - Complete IV&T of CEA, CEQ, NSC, OPD, OSTP, ONDCP, PFIAB and USTR. Insert all
dings in the latest version of the spreadsheet PSTCopylssues.
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‘Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:00 AM
feam Action Items for 11/09/2005
MST - Please print this and bring to I lam meeting
DAILY UPDATE:
The following actions were approved by the Oversight Team in a 8:45 AM meeting today:
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1) Update master spreadsheet and write script to copy 14 UNK files to Issues folder on IS.
2) Update master spreadsheet and write script to copy 1069 UNK-SR files to Issues folder on I8.
3) Update master spreadsheet to reflect creation of HS drive for OMB for 2005 files.
4) Delete the 29 OVP file copies that are currently on that were moved by someone without
authorization from to and write a new script to re-copy the 29 OVP files from
to the correct directories on and validated against the directory dump from
Validation process on includes confirmation that the number, name, and size of
the files are identical to those or
5) Move ovp_2005 February 28th, 2005_ma(2).pst file (with a create date of 3/3/2005) to the Issues
folder IS since it's not in the master spreadsheet and we do not know where it came from.
6) Note in Daily Update that the following 2 activities were cancelled:
A. Create file directory of from about 3/1/2005
B. Restore ' from about 10/20/2003 activities were cancelled.
7) Confirm with SIS that restore of the Domain Controller from October 2003 was completed as
requested on 11/4/05.
8) There will be a meeting at 10:15 AM today in [IMJ office to discuss gaps in the draft MS Exchange
Electronic Mail Archival Process Standard Operating Procedures.
9) Status of CMDFI Analysis as of this morning:
Z: Drive (2003) Folders
EA 1003,
Et 1003,
isC 1003, [2003\PA-Duplicate
PD
STP 1003) 1003\PA-Duplicate
MB 1003,
nN 1002 1003 1003\PA-Duplicate
YNDCP 1003,
PFIAB
lUSTR.
‘Total Directories 7 3 1
Y: Drive (2004)
[CEA 2004]
ICEQ. 2004)
WSC 20042004\PA-Duplicate,
PD '2004)2004\PA-Duplicate
(OSTP 20042004\PA-Duplicate
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MB 2004/2004\PA-Duplicate
1A '20042004\PA-Duplicate
NDCP 20042004\PA-Duplicate
PFIAB 2004)2004\P A-Duplicate
STR 2004)2004\PA-Duplicate
X: Drive (2005)
(CEA 20052005\PA-Duplicate
EQ 20052005\PA-Duplicate
WSC 20052005\PA-Duplicate
PD 20052005\PA-Duplicate
joste 20052005\PA-Duplicate
jomB Gi: 20052005\PA-Duplicate ROOS\PA-Issues
JOA '2005)2005\PA-Duplicate
INDCP 20052005\PA-Duplicate
PFIAB 2005}2005\PA-Duplicate
USTR. 20052005\PA-Duplicate
OVERSIGHT TEAM ACTION ITEMS:
Review the Yellow Folder for the draft MS Exchange Electronic Mail Archival Process Standard
Operating Procedures through Oversight Team and route up to the OA Director for approval. Subject
of 10:15 AM meeting today in III office.
= inform me when Microsoft provides the remaining 2 custom PST-compare/analysis utilities that
ave been requested.
HE. Transition histogram analysis activity 10
MST ACTION ITEMS:
BIRR ute te Yclow Folder forthe inal draft MS Exchange Electron Mail Archival
Process Standard Operating Procedures through Oversight Team and up to the OA Director for
approval once finalized.
Run 30 files for OVP that were moved without authorization through IV&V process. Complete
IV&T of CEA, CEQ, NSC, OPD, OSTP, ONDCP, PFIAB and USTR. Insert all findings in the new
spreadsheet PSTCopylssues_20051108.xls
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HEE #12 Python been installed on ?
MST - 10:15 AM meeting in [III office to discuss gaps in the draft MS Exchange
Electronic Mail Archival Process Standard Operating Procedures.
MST - 3:00 PM meeting on the PST File Management System (PFMS) (discussion to flow from draft
CONOPS distributed by [ll yesterday).
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