EPA tells court it may have lost text messages at the center of a lawsuit

The Hill ^ | 10/09/2014 | By Timothy Cama

[Vendome]

“Liz Purchia said the agency maintains that the text messages neither had to be preserved nor were subject to disclosure. Text messages can legally be deleted, she said”.

Uhmmmm, no they can’t.

[Robert357]

Seems to be a lot of that going around. I wonder why?

Actually, no I have no doubt as to why records are being “distroyed” “lost” “misplaced” etc.

The Big Zero's administration is corrupt to its core.

[fuzzylogic]

I bet the NSA has them.

[wildbill]

Of course they did. Happens all the time to multiple machines in one company on one subject of interest to the courts. Perfectly understandable. Move on, folks, nothing to see here.

[UCANSEE2]

Does gov’t use the same ‘guys’ between departments?

No. But they do 'text message' each other .

[UCANSEE2]

Liz Purchia is just trying to split hairs.

There is no difference between text messages and email. Both are forms of communication between gov’t employees conducting official business.

She might as well claim that only typewritten letters were subject to disclosure, but that handwritten notes were not.

[Vendome]

Yep and txt messages are stored ubiquitously across the network and backed up.

[i_robot73]

Didn’t think so; why would D.C. centralize and keep costs low? It’s only taxpayer funds, right.

Hasn’t it been ruled already that a ‘company’ supplied phone conveys no privacy Rights? Course, I’m sure that’s another rule for the masses, not the ‘betters’.

I wonder if they have some kind of inter-dept. chat program?