Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address and server to conduct
government business as secretary of state attracted widespread criticism.
Yet the uproar that has greeted this revelation is only the latest in a
long line of such controversies. For centuries, debate has flared around
state officials’ use of new record-keeping technologies, or new
applications of old technologies. Do official documents belong to the
public or are they the private property of the government employees who
produce them? Is the government itself a public trust, or a collection of
petty fiefdoms, each waging information warfare against the others?
Technologies change, as do the answers to these questions, but the pursuit
of political ends through the control of archives persists.

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They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
umbrella of federal regulations."
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