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Google and WhiteHouse.gov and broken links
It is the time of transition and a lot of links in google searches to whitehouse.gov are broken and new pages are apparently not indexed yet. I imagine that google will update these links soon, but be aware. If you have hard links to White House pages (e.g., Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Office of Homeland Security, Office of National AIDS Policy), you might want to check them! Continue reading
The White House: America’s Most Famous Home on C-SPAN
This announcement from C-SPAN may be of interest:
Join C-SPAN for White House Week! This 7-day television event kicks off on December 14 with the premiere of a 90-minute feature documentary, The White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home -- a C-SPAN original production. White House Week takes you beyond the velvet ropes to the private residence, sharing exclusive interviews with the First Family, the White House staff, and renowned presidential historians. The White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home, which headlines the weeklong series, recounts highlights of America's most famous home -- from George Washington's first design decisions to an exclusive tour of the private residence given by First Lady Laura Bush. And that's only the beginning. After the documentary premiere, six additional nights of special White House programming will air on C-SPAN. Programs will feature rare footage, behind-the-scenes video, and extended interviews with historians, White House staff, and other experts -- all providing an unprecedented look into the public spaces of the White House and the private home of our nation's First Families. Produced with assistance from First Lady Laura Bush and the White House Historical Association, this weeklong series is the most comprehensive look at the White House ever offered in video, bringing this treasured landmark alive for viewers across the country. You can get inside the White House ahead of time by visiting www.c-span.org/whitehouse today. View the trailer, interviews with historians, footage from the documentary, and content from the C-SPAN archives -- with more video added every week. The White House: America's Most Famous Home premieres December 14 at 9 pm ET on C-SPAN. Additional original programming will air nightly at 9 pm ET through December 20.Continue reading
Title 44 (Chpt 29) News: Electronic Message Preservation
As we have seen through the conflict and problems of preserving White House e-mail, the law has not kept up with preservation of electronic messages.
A bill (H.R.5811, "The Electronic Message Preservation Act") moving through Congress would address the problems by adding a new Section 2911 to Title 44, Chapter 29. It would require the electronic capture, management, and preservation of electronic records, require that they be readily accessible for retrieval through electronic searches, and would establish mandatory minimum functional requirements for electronic records management systems to ensure compliance with the requirements.
The Bush administration is threatening a veto:
White House Threatens To Veto House E-Mail Storage Bill, By Dan Friedman, CongressDaily, Jul 9, 2008 (subscription required, but freely available here).
The White House and officials at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) argue that the law gives NARA new responsibility and expands the agency's job from advice to oversight, but the sponsors of the bill say that it only affirms the National Archives' job of advising the White House on record-keeping.
The CongressDaily articles notes that:
A less-discussed but farther-reaching part of the bill updates the Federal Records Act to require federal agencies, also under standards set by the National Archives, to save all e-mail records electronically and create systems to allow electronic searches. According to GAO and a committee report, most agencies now use "print and file" records systems for keeping e-mail, many of them spotty.
(See National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management, United States Government Accountability Office, GAO-08-742 June 13, 2008.)
A comment in the Committee Report (House Report 110-709, "Electronic Message Preservation Act" 110th Congress 2d Session, June 11, 2008) says:
To make federal agencies comply, I believe this legislation should include enforceable repercussion language. Ms. Patricia McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org suggests this is the only way to make federal agencies comply with the Federal Records Act. Ms. McDermott states that she does not "think anyone has ever been prosecuted for destroying, much less failing to preserve federal records." Just ask former Clinton EPA Director Carol Browner. She supposedly oversaw the destruction of her computer files in violation of a judge's order requiring the agency to preserve its records.Continue reading
The White House: Off Limits to Historians?
Meredith Fuchs, the general counsel of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, writes that the Bush administration's hostility towards public access to and preservation of records combined with changes in technology that have transformed the way in which we all communicate are leading to a situation in which "primary sources on the most important decisions and activities in the government may be lost, destroyed, or closed to the public." [emphasis added]
- The White House: Off Limits to Historians? by Meredith Fuchs, Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (5-1-08), posted at History News Network on Thursday, May 8, 2008.
[O]ver the last seven years there have been a series of moves by the current administration that may ensure that the records of the White House and the federal offices and agencies that work closely with the White House will not be available to historians.Continue reading
Hearing on electronic preservation in the White House
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has authority to investigate the subjects within the Committee’s legislative jurisdiction as well as “any matter” within the jurisdiction of the other standing House Committees.
Tues. Feb. 26 at 10 am the full Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Electronic Records Preservation at the White House.” According to the Committee website, the witnesses expected to testify include:
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