"The North story hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, but it is a useful tale
for clarifying exactly why we have federal records and sunshine laws. You
see, government workers don’t use private email because it is “convenient.”
They use private email to engage in practices that may be unsavory, or
embarrassing, or even illegal. Let’s be clear about that.

Mr. North was one of those Obama employees whose government hard drives
conveniently crashed. Only after Congress started investigating the Pebble
scandal did the EPA inform lawmakers that Mr. North’s crash just happened
to wipe out documents from the period in question.

Mr. North, meanwhile, has fled the country. He retired from the EPA in the
spring of 2013. The House Oversight Committee in July of that year asked
him to appear for an interview. They went round and round on a possible
date, until in October 2013 he claimed he was on a world boat tour, and
that moreover his boat had suffered damage. He also hired a lawyer, who has
not made Mr. North available for in-person or telephone interviews. He’s
thought to be in Australia."
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