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Crisis at the National Archives (Obama records missing)
Real Clear Politics ^ | June 10, 2018 | Thomas Lipscomb

Posted on 06/10/2018 3:05:08 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

In the middle of directing the difficult task of transferring the historically important records of the Obama administration into the National Archives, the archivist in charge, David Ferriero, ran into a serious problem: A lot of key records are missing.

A first-rate librarian, Ferriero has been driving a much-needed digital overhaul and expansion of the National Archives over the nine years of his appointment. This will greatly improve the ability of digital search locally and remotely, as well as accessing the files themselves.

To support this effort, in 2014 President Obama signed the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments. For the first time electronic government records were placed under the 1950 Federal Records Act. The new law also included updates clarifying "the responsibilities of federal government officials when using non-government email systems" and empowering "the National Archives to safeguard original and classified records from unauthorized removal.” Additionally, it gives the Archivist of the United States the final authority in determining just what is a government record.

And yet the accumulation of recent congressional testimony has made it clear that the Obama administration itself engaged in the wholesale destruction and “loss” of tens of thousands of government records covered under the act as well as the intentional evasion of the government records recording system by engaging in private email exchanges. So far, former President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Lynch and several EPA officials have been named as offenders. The IRS suffered record “losses” as well. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy called it “an unauthorized private communications system for official business for the patent purpose of defeating federal record-keeping and disclosure laws.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014; andyberger; epa; foia; fraud; irs; lorettalynch; missingdocuments; missingrecord; nationalarchives; obama; records; sandybergler
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To: dfwgator

81 posted on 06/10/2018 7:58:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Kind of like Hillary’s e-mails.


82 posted on 06/10/2018 8:04:50 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Forty-Niner

Consider my IF to be rhetorical.


83 posted on 06/10/2018 8:23:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Week four. Placed a standing order for designer jock straps for Michelle.


84 posted on 06/10/2018 8:30:27 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Baynative

No laughter here.

I’m furious.


85 posted on 06/10/2018 8:42:29 PM PDT by LucyT
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Sandy Burgler?


86 posted on 06/10/2018 8:43:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Just in case it hasn’t been said - records may have been seized by the military. Evidence in upcoming military tribunal (hopefully).


87 posted on 06/11/2018 3:45:28 AM PDT by MomwithHope
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To: COBOL2Java

Hillary looks GREAT in orange...


88 posted on 06/11/2018 9:03:43 AM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: Yaelle

Extremely interesting!


89 posted on 06/11/2018 9:15:57 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Liz; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; ...
Back to the thread.

”Image

Check out # 42 and # 43.

Thanks, Liz.

(Bookmarking for future reference.)

90 posted on 06/11/2018 2:10:22 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: dead

lol


91 posted on 06/11/2018 2:23:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Liz

So, now we know what’s in buried in pool she filled in at her Chappaqua house.


92 posted on 06/11/2018 4:12:08 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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