Bob Ackley -> John Massey wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of John Massey to All:

 JM>> Can anyone tell me why PEBO will have to give up his blackberry when
 JM>> he becomes  PBO?

 BA> All of his communications are by law public records, and he - and his
 BA> staff -
 BA> are required to use government communications systems so they can be
 BA> archived.  His personal Blackberry doesn't qualify.

 BA> Some folks in Bush minor's administration (I think mostly Cheney's
 BA> people) got
 BA> their hands slapped for using Blackberries and other email that ran
 BA> through the
 BA> Republicrook party net rather than the White House system, thus
 BA> bypassing the
 BA> official system.  A cynic like me would suggest that they did it to
 BA> avoid any
 BA> investigation of what was being said - a subpoena for "all White House
 BA> email
 BA> records" would not turn up anything that had never been *in* the White
 BA> House.

That is unadulterated nonsense.

Ed

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