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Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

Files from '03 — at start of Iraq war — backed up, but where?

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted May 7, 2008 10:57 AM CDT

(Newser) – White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still... Read full story »

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