Preserving White House Emails

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Electronic Message Preservation Act. This act, if passed by the Senate and if it survives a likely veto by President Bush, would require that the archivist of the United States develop a plan to record the email send and received by the White House. While the law is not only for historic preservation, it is also an effort by Congress to hold administrations accountable for their actions.