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Technical insight into the White House e-mail lies

David Zatz looks at the technical insanity going on over supposedly lost e-mails at the WhiteHouse:

If, in fact, the bulk of the White House email records are now stored in bundles of rotting PST files, all at or above their maximum safe load-level, that ain’t good in a very big way. [...] I object to using the inaccurate and inflated claim of excessive cost as a reason to avoid compliance with the Presidential Records Act.

Basically, it comes down to this. Either they are grossly incompetent or they are perjuring themselves to protect something. Which is more comforting as an American?

Having worked on some of the initial efforts at protecting governmental email for the Archives, I can tell you it’s hard. But it is solvable, and much more easily now than in 1997.