I believe Bush 1’s papers are bundled into this, and rumor has it that Bush 2 moved his Texas State House Gubernatorial records to the National Archives.

Here is our press release:

Court Grants National Security Archive Motion to Search White House Computers and Preserve E-mails

One the eve of transition, court orders outgoing White House staff to surrender electronic media containing e-mails

For More Information
Contact: Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton – 202/994-7000
John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] – 202/879-3939

Washington, DC, January 14, 2009 – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today granted the National Security Archive’s emergency motion for an extended preservation order to protect missing White House e-mails. With the transition from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration taking place in six days, and all the records of the Bush White House scheduled for a physical transfer to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on that same day, the Court has directed the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to search all its computer work stations and has ordered EOP employees to surrender any media in their possession that may contain e-mails from March 2003 to October 2005.

“There is nothing like a deadline to clarify the issues,” said Archive Director Tom Blanton. “In six days the Bush Executive Office of the President will be gone and their records may disappear with them. The White House will complain about the last minute challenge, but this is a records crisis of the WH own making.”

Counsel for the Archive, Sheila Shadmand from Jones Day made clear: “The White House has been on notice since we filed our lawsuit a year and a half ago that they would have to retrieve and preserve their e-mail. Instead of coming clean and telling the public what they have been doing to solve the crisis, they refused to say anything. At this point, it is critical to preserve evidence that can help get to the bottom of the problem and prevent it from happening again.”

Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola has scheduled an emergency status conference today at 2 p.m. to consider additional measures that may be necessary to protect the records during the transition.

The Archive filed its emergency motion for an extended preservation order on March 11, 2008. After considering the objections of the White House, Magistrate Judge Facciola issued two reports, on April 24 and July 29, 2008, recommending that District Judge Henry H. Kennedy issue an order requiring search, surrender and preservation of the Computer workstations and external media devices, such as CDs, DVDs, memory sticks, and external hard drives. Today’s order adopts those reports and recommendations, granting in part the Archive’s emergency motion.

The National Security Archive filed its lawsuit on September 5, 2007 against the Executive Office of the President and NARA, seeking to preserve and restore missing White House e-mails. A virtually identical lawsuit filed subsequently by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been consolidated with the Archive’s lawsuit. A chronology of the litigation is available here

Judge Kennedy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia just issued an order requiring:

The Executive Office of the President (“EOP”) shall: (1) search the workstations, and any
.PST files located therein, of any individuals who were employed between March 2003 and
October 2005, and to collect and preserve all e-mails sent or received between March 2003 and
October 2005 and (2) issue a preservation notice to its employees directing them to surrender
any media in their possession–irrespective of the intent with which it was created–that may
contain e-mails sent or received between March 2003 and October 2005, and for EOP to collect
and preserve all such media.

We will be sending our further details later this morning.

Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel
National Security Archive

And those are the records that are still in limbo.

There has been repeated lip service that the WH is “working with” and “negotiating with” the RNC to recover those records. But that recovery is taking a gosh darned long time.

And I think that Waxman’s investigations and letters have solidly established that the RNC has custody of those emails.

So my question is, what is the status of those records. By definition of the PRA, many of those records are “Presidential Communications” created by White House aides on government time in furtherance of government activity. So those are covered records.

Are those records going to be silently shuffled into the 12 year lockbox? Or will Congress be able to seize them after January 20?

Evidently, Repugs are quite sports-minded.

RIGHT ON SCHEDULE:

A new audio message purportedly from the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, has called for all Muslims to launch a holy war to stop the Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to Islamist websites.

The recording, which the websites said was by Bin Laden, also condemned Arab governments for preventing their people from acting to “liberate Palestine”.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..-gaza-tape

100% bullshit – guaranteed.

The man does not exist.

9/11 and the wars that followed ARE NOT “old news.”

They are THE NEWS. All of it ties directly to the global depression and Middle East genocide with which we are presently faced. It’s ALL connected, and it all began as a grand conspiracy PRIOR to the start of the Bush Administration.

Obama knows this. He also knows their is no “Osama Bin Laden.” He’s clearly choosing to operate against what many of us perceive to be America’s best interest…THE TRUTH.

So whose interest is he actually beholden to if not ours?

Look no further than the CFR and those behind it.

just make sure we explain the law to the guy who runs the archives

come January 20th, there is a new sheriff in town

the archivist guy has to decide if he wants to take a felony conviction un order to protect george bush

let george “explain: his problem, then conduct an interview with the archivist guy and a LAWYER

once America hears george’s bullshit, and then has the LAW explained to them by the guy who would actually be convicted of george’s crimes, we’ll dispose of george’s objections REAL FUCKING QUICK

once Obama is innagurated, these wingnuts are gonna have to chose between AMERICA and george bush

support the fucking laws or get your slimy ass SPIT ON EVERY WHERE YOU GO

anybodyfeeling unpatriotic out there ???

ANYBODY GOT A PROBLEM WITH UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

gonna be awful easy to wipe the repuglitard party off the map in 2010 if these stupid fuckers fail to remember how often the word “TRAITOR” crossed their lips in 2008

you questioned my patriotism pal, so why don’t you support AMERICA

Remember when the DoD put all the technical papers seized in Iraq up on the web for a couple of days? That’s not available under the Presidential Records Act — yet it appears that’s pretty much what NARA would have to do:

http://tinyurl.com/6sgq5n