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Chairman Waxman Schedules Hearing to Examine Preservation of White House E-mails

Follow up to previous postings on missing White House emails, from the House Oversight Committee: “On February 15, the Committee will hold a hearing to investigate White House compliance with the Presidential Records Act. Statements made at the January 17 White House press briefing contradict information provided to the Committee, which revealed that a 2005 White House analysis found no archived mail for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005. The following officials have been invited to testify: Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President; Alan Swendiman, Director, Office of Administration; Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States.”

  • Letter to Fred Fielding
  • Letter to Allen Weinstein
  • White House Press Briefing by Tony Fratto for January 17, 2008: “…I’m saying we have no evidence that shows that anything at all is missing. And you’re saying, well, have you found the missing emails — and we say we have no evidence that anything is missing…”
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