Courts still dealing with Bush records policies (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)

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NEWS MEDIA UPDATE
Washington, D.C. · January 21, 2009 · Freedom of information

... On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a ruling in a key records case the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington brought against then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

In its suit CREW argued that Cheney’s office was not fulfilling its obligations to preserve records under the Presidential Records Act. In response, Cheney’s office made various arguments that Kollar-Kotelly characterized as inconsistent ...

Separately, in the ongoing lawsuit over access to missing White House e-mail from early in Bush’s tenure, the former administration continued to argue that a federal court has no power to order the preservation of records under the Presidential Records Act, The Washington Post reported.

Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola had done just that, ordering the Bush White House to preserve the records, but the Justice Department argued his order applied only to e-mail records covered by the Federal Records Act, not the Presidential Records Act ...

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