How politicians can walk off with their records upon leaving office boggles the mind. Giuliani did it when he left the NYC mayor's office. GW Bush sent his TX governor records to his father's presidential library in College Station TX to escape state access to his records as governor, and countless others have done the similar. Breaking the chain of custody is a real concern. I cannot conceive of any company allowing business activity to be transacted via personal accounts and not exclusively under the administration/control of company. To operate this way is not prudent (to take a word from an old Bush) and will result in some serious dog$#!+. Like Gordy wrote, it certainly has a bad stink to it.

I wouldn't fault David Ferriero and NARA. He's done more than most of his recent predecessors to get NARA back to where it needs to be, but it's not an overnight transformation. NARA's been degraded and emasculated since the late '40s when it was tucked under the General Services Administration. Directors more and more were appointed because they were cronies of the president with limited abilities/interests in archives and information management and more concerned with maintaining the status quo. They served the political needs of the president before serving the public.

That's my 3 cents.
 
Stephen Cohen, CRM
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