Ralph Losey threw down the gauntlet to the US government in his *Ethical
Boardroom* commentary in 2015.¹

He said that the email system the US government provides its employees is
“archaic”, that it is a “national disgrace” and that it is an “insecure,
outdated piece of junk”. He went on to make a broader policy point that, in
his view, “the reality is that Hillary Clinton has simply done what every
other CEO and employee in the US does on a daily basis” by “ignoring the
arcane records rules that supposedly govern email use”.

As someone who spent 33 years as a lawyer in the US government – a good
portion of which were spent defending the White House and the archivist of
the United States in waves of litigation involving email records and in
developing electronic recordkeeping policies – I feel compelled to comment
on Ralph’s negative perspective on the state of the US government’s email
recordkeeping. In light of the excellent initiatives that are going on in
public sector space, the glass really should be seen as at least half-full.
And there is an important takeaway for the corporate C-suite.


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