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White House E-mail Policy Clarification Requested
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to the White House calling on the administration to clarify by March 4 its policies related to the preservation and retention of e-mails that fall under the authority of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
"President Obama has called for an 'unprecedented' standard for transparency and accountability and I expect him to live up to his word," Issa said. "We need to immediately establish the parameters for e-mail preservation and archiving so that we can develop the highest possible standard for transparency and disclosure."
In the letter to White House Counsel Gregory Craig, Issa wrote, "The challenges posed by retaining e-mail as required under the PRA have proved vexing for the last two White Houses. The use of personal e-mail accounts, such as Gmail, to conduct official business raises the prospect that presidential records will not be captured by the White House e-mail archiving system. Unless White House officials forward copies of their e-mails to their government e-mail account or maintain printed copies of the e-mail, there is a risk records subject to the PRA will not be retained as required by law…Consequently, Gmail users on the President's staff run the risk of incorrectly classifying their e-mails as non-records under the Act."
ARMA International Washington Policy Brief, March
