Agencies Asked to Preserve Electronic Info

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By Daniel Pulliam | Friday, June 15, 2007 | 04:57 PM

Eighteen agencies have been asked by the Office of Special Counsel to preserve electronic information dating back to January 2001 as part of its governmentwide investigation into alleged violations of the law that limits political activity in federal agencies.

The OSC task force investigating the claims has asked agencies, including the General Services Administration, to preserve all e-mail records, calendar information, phone logs and hard drives going back to the beginning of the Bush administration. The task force is headed by deputy OSC special counsel James Byrne.

OSC recently ruled that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act when she attended a Jan. 26 meeting at the agency's headquarters ... The White House revealed a month ago that about 20 other similar briefings were held in federal agencies in 2006 and 2007 ...

http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/06/agencies_asked_to_preserve_ele.html

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1. If the info is gone how is it to be preserved?

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2. BEWARE repubs will destroy anything to stay in power

THESE NEXT MONTHS ARE A BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA FROM CONSERVATIVE ZEALOTS OF MANY STRIPES