Yes, I believe I recall correctly that when Bush realized emails were
records he decided to use email less and have fewer of them so they would
not be used for accountability. This infuriated many individuals "on both
sides of the aisle."  There have also been repeated issues over the years
with Presidential Libraries and when and how information gets put in those.

It has been often documented in various diverse news sources that regardless
of political ideology it is common for "the elected ones" to promise
accountability and transparency while changing once they are in office to
doing exactly the opposite. That's why we have regular reporting (through
records) to the public by both government agencies and corporate executive
boards.

Accountability and the records needed to insure it are important regardless
of who is in any particular office.

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John Phillips
Information Technology Decisions
www.infotechdecisions.net



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Subject: Re: Barack Obama promised transparency: The White House is as
opaque, secretive, and hostile ... Bush's admin

so here are links to 4 RAIN postings that contain stories involving Karl
Rove and WH gmail accounts.

http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0708C&L=RECMGMT-L&P=5087

http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0712A&L=RECMGMT-L&P=71

http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0704c&L=recmgmt-l&D=0&P=327

http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0707A&L=RECMGMT-L&P=678

also brings back memories of how time consuming it was to compile and post
the stories

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