Skirting the Law

A couple of recent scandals have highlighted the possibility that unofficial e-mail addresses have been used by some White House staff in an effort to circumvent the archival process of official records

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A license to re-write history via incomplete records ? You bet. But there’s hope yet.

The Senate is currently looking at The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 (H. R. 1255 ), which seeks to rescind Executive Order 13233. The bill passed in the House, and is now referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. We can only hope that Bush won’t veto this bill, as he has threatened to do. Although at least that would be a matter of public record.