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The Bush White House email controversy surfaced in 2007 during the controversy involving the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an email server not controlled by the federal government. Conducting governmental business in this manner is a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and the Hatch Act.〔(Rove and Co. Broke Federal Law With Email Scam ) by Jonathan Stein, Mother Jones, April 12, 2007〕 Over 5 million emails may have been lost.〔(CREW Releases New Report - Without A Trace: The White House Emails and The Violations of The Presidential Records Act )() Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, April 13, 2006〕〔(Officials' e-mails may be missing, White House says Democrats in Congress want messages from private system for probe of U.S. attorney firings ) By Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2007〕 Greg Palast claims to have come up with 500 of the Karl Rove emails, leading to damaging allegations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I have Karl Rove’s emails )〕 In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been lost. The administration officials had been using a private Internet domain, called gwb43.com, owned by and hosted on an email server run by the Republican National Committee,〔''The Guardian''. (White House Says It Still Backs Gonzales ). 25 March 2007.〕 for various communications of unknown content or purpose. The domain name is an acronym standing for "George W. Bush, 43rd" President of the United States. The server came public when it was discovered that J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, was using a gwb43.com email address to discuss the firing of the U.S. attorney for Arkansas.〔''Washington Post''. (GOP Groups Told to Keep Bush Officials' E-Mails ). 27 March 2007〕 Communications by federal employees were also found on georgewbush.com (registered to "Bush-Cheney '04, Inc."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=georgewbush.com Whois Record )〕) and rnchq.org (registered to "Republican National Committee"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://whois.domaintools.com/rnchq.org )〕), but, unlike these two servers, gwb43.com has no Web server connected to it — it is used only for email.〔http://www.gwb43.com/〕 The "gwb43.com" domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who sent a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee committee chairman Henry A. Waxman requesting an investigation.〔(CREW asks for House Investigation into White House violations of Presidential Records Act. ). ''Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW),'' 15 March 2007.〕 Waxman sent a formal warning to the RNC, advising them to retain copies of all emails sent by White House employees. According to Waxman, "in some instances, White House officials were using nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications."〔''The Hill''. (Waxman wants RNC, Bush campaign to preserve e-mails ). 26 March 2007〕 The Republican National Committee claims to have erased the emails, supposedly making them unavailable for Congressional investigators.〔(News from CNN )〕 On April 12, 2007, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel stated that White House staffers were told to use RNC accounts to "err on the side of avoiding violations of the Hatch Act, but they should also retain that information so it can be reviewed for the Presidential Records Act," and that "some employees ... have communicated about official business on those political email accounts."〔(White House - April 12, 2007 Press Gaggle by Scott Stanzel )〕 Stanzel also said that even though RNC policy since 2004 has been to retain all emails of White House staff with RNC accounts, the staffers had the ability to delete the email themselves. ==Dead Letter Office== Some of the "missing" emails that were sent through the RNC accounts were mistakenly addressed to〔()georgewbush.org〕 georgewbush.org, a parody site. Text of the misaddressed emails is available at the Dead Letter Office.〔(the Dead Letter Office )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bush White House email controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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