CREW POSTS PREVIOUSLY "SENSITIVE" MISSING WHITE HOUSE EMAIL DOCUMENTS

1 Dec 2009 // Washington, D.C. - As a result of CREW’s long-running effort to obtain and disclose documents regarding the millions of emails missing from Bush White House servers, the White House recently released a group of documents it previously declared could not be released to the public. As part of a negotiated standstill in CREW v. Executive Office of the President, CREW’s lawsuit regarding the missing emails, the White House in June began releasing thousands of pages of documents. However, it marked numerous documents “sensitive,” meaning they are not subject to public disclosure.

CREW objected to the White House’s overuse of the “sensitive” designation, and repeatedly pressed the White House to reconsider its decisions keeping important documents from the public. The White House recently agreed some of the documents should not have been designated “sensitive,” and released versions of these documents with the designation removed.

These documents include: (1) standard operating procedures for email preservation the Bush White House put in place after discovering it was missing email (OAP00000264); (2) a “quality control” report about the White House’s 2008 process for counting and sorting email (OAP00004848. OAP00004931); and (3) documents related to the administration’s efforts to restore some of the missing email from disaster backup tapes (OAP00005307, OAP00005337, OAP00005438, OAP00005526, OAP00005527, OAP00005551, OAP00005586, OAP00005590, OAP00005657, OAP00005663, OAP00005667, OAP00005672, OAP00005708, OAP00005735, OAP00005743, OAP00005765, OAP00005767).

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