Dan Froomkin's latest article in the Washington Post details the White House's contempt for public record laws--especially those concerning e-mail.
I think one of the things Congress can do, and do now, is to specifically require permanent back ups of e-mail records. While archiving these records is the law, most of the laws, I believe, were written pre-internet--so Congress could not add specific language detailing that these records must be preserved. It would eliminate any gray area's agency and administration lawyers will surely be looking for in these e-mail destruction cases.
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