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White House Doesn't Have to Hand Over Missing Plame E-Mails

by Terrence O'Brien on May 20, 2009 at 04:19 PM


Remember all those missing Bush Administration e-mails--from the time period surrounding the beginning of the Iraq war and the leak of Valerie Plame's status as a CIA operative?

After much haranguing, the former president's team has preserved its right to keep the documents secret. A federal appeals court denied a Freedom of Information Act request from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson, and other interested parties, saying that the Office of Administration is not subject to the Act.

At stake was the fate of a huge cache of correspondence. Originally estimated at a few hundred messages, it's now believed that at least 14 million e-mails were improperly backed up thanks to changes made to the White House's e-mail system. The groups will likely take their case to the Supreme Court next. But it's not yet know in the court will even agree to hear the case. [From: CNN]

Tags: bush, e-mail, freedomofinformationact, law, politics, top, whitehouse

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