Comments on: Cacheing the presidential cache

Question: Cacheing the presidential cache

stupidsexyFlanders — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:23:46 -0800

I know that if a President (U.S.) were to send/receive emails, that those would be considered government documents, subject to retention policies, archiving/disclosure, etc. What about all the other online stuff?

With each new Administration it becomes more likely that a President will be looking at web pages, sending/receiving SMS messages, posting to forums (well, maybe not), etc. Must these records be retained? Will future historians be entitled to see President Obama's browser history files? Will Presidential laptops/browsers/Blackberries be equipped with keystroke capture utilities? Or is there just no consensus yet on whether/how to retain these?

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:29:05 -0800

Check the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:38:19 -0800

Here's the rules, you can do the sifting.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:45:47 -0800

Note that in areas where the Act differs from the Code of Federal Regulations, the Act controls, as the regulations are not laws and laws control in such conflicts.

Note: If stupidsexyflanders is actually Karl Rove, I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.*

*applies even if not Rove.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:15:57 -0800

Executive Order 13233. Don't plan on reading Dubya's e-mails anytime soon. Or, you know, ever.