Lois Lerner emails reveal gaping open-records loophole

Washington Times ^ | 7/20/14 | S.A. Miller & Stephen Dinan

[Nachum]

The Lois G. Lerner emails released this month revealed a potentially huge loophole in federal open-records practices when an IRS tech staffer acknowledged that the agency doesn’t regularly store — and never checks — instant message chats as official government records. Analysts say there is no question that the Internal Revenue Service and all other federal agencies should be storing chats and even cellphone text messages that may constitute official government documents, but a check by The Washington Times suggests that hardly any agency is doing so. Of 17 agencies surveyed by The Times, just two said they had policies

[unixfox]

What are the odds they would lose OUR records.

ZER0!

[LucyT]

Article and comments.

Thanks, Nachum.

[musicman]

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