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“I’m not sure what was said on that. I could tell you today, though, that we have no evidence and we have no way of showing that any email at all are missing.”

– White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, responding to questions last week about a newly released report that found “473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices,” reports the Washington Post. The 2005 internal study of White House electronic communications renewed attention to the controversy surrounding White House recordkeeping. The dispute centers on questions about “whether the Bush administration has complied with long-standing statutory requirements to preserve official White House records — including those reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions — for history and in case of any future legal demands,” notes the Post.

Source: Washington Post, Jan. 18.

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