Posted on 06/16/2008 8:22:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Judge rules for White House in e-mail controversy
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
A federal judge ruled Monday that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly says the Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, enabling the White House to maintain the secrecy of a lengthy internal paper trail about its problem-plagued e-mail system.
The decision came in a lawsuit filed against the administration by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a private group that has been trying to find out the extent of the White House's e-mail problems for more than a year.
The functions of the Office of Administrative "are strictly administrative," Kollar-Kotelly ruled.
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this is a bad decision.
It is a mistake to view it as a dems vs gop issue. It is more a duopoly vs. the people issue, and we just lost. The party elites of gop and dnc have VASTLY more in common they either do with us.
Giving this kind of power to the executive is a terrible idea.
We know how the media will spin THAT.
Seriously: Isn’t the Freedom of Information Act really just binding on the “little people”?
The hard discs that went missing during the Clinton administration were taken by the Chinese. The agent in Los Alamos was caught, and a federal judge had him freed.
why fix it "if it ain't broken"? sarcasm is intended here. I gotta boss that doesn't even want us to know when an email has been read by a recipient inside the company. It's ridiculous!
Yes, I will. There is a seperation of powers for a reason, and we can’t selectively be for or against it. I’m for the Framer’s intent, no matter who is President.
The power hasn’t been given. It’s already there. It was just recognized, yet again.
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