CREW ASKS AG MUKASEY TO APPOINT SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE DISAPPEARANCE OF MILLIONS OF WHITE HOUSE EMAILS

4 Feb 2008 // Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to ask for an investigation into whether the White House violated federal record-keeping laws by knowingly failing to preserve and restore millions of emails and by deliberately failing to use an effective and appropriate record-keeping system for the preservation of federal and presidential electronic records. The White House is subject to two sets of federal laws governing how it must maintain and preserve its records, the Federal Records Act (FRA) and the Presidential Records Act (PRA).