White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records

An anonymous reader writes "The White House Office of Administration is not required to turn over records about a trove of possibly missing e-mails, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the agency does not have 'substantial independent authority,' so it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act."

Ah well, that's okay

[Skyshadow]

Openness is overrated in democratic societies, anyhow. I'm sure they wouldn't be keeping this all a secret if it weren't in the best interests of the people.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go send my credit card numbers to these nice former Nigerian heads of state.

Note to self:

[eln]

1.) Conduct all illegal activities through email
2.) When I get sued, pay off court clerk to assign case to Judge Kollar-Kotelly.
3.) ???
4.) Profit!

Re:Cue the Bush bashing

[Anonymous Coward]

That they be held accountable for their actions?

'You must be new here,' says the anonymous coward.

don't worry about it folks

[circletimessquare]

if you can't get the transparency from your democratic government that you deserve, petition the chinese government to air their copies of our government's email

i'm sure they have a copy of the inboxes in question sitting around somewhere [slashdot.org]

thank god for shoddy us government computer security and snooping totalitarian regimes: securing the transparency in our democracy that we deserve!

Wrong way around

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Fuck the what.

Oh well, only a few months left

Re:Wrong way around

[iminplaya]

Oh well, only a few months left

Till what? The return to Camelot? Dream on... You're gonna see Jesus first.

This MUST be a joke.

[TeraGram]

As any comedian will tell you, the letter K is a funny letter. The sound, itself somehow adds to the comedic value of any words in a joke. Since this judge has not one, but THREE K sounds in her name, I have no choice but to insist this is a joke. There's no other explanation.

Re:Cue the Republican pissiness.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think $120/barrel oil is now actually the 'good old days'..

http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/