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Historians Sue to Force Trump Administration to Preserve Records
[link=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/historians-sue-to-force-trump-administration-to-preserve-records]https://www.bloomberg.com…on-to-preserve-records[/link]
[h1]Historians Sue to Force Trump Administration to Preserve Records[/h1]
Three of the groups that filed the complaint — the National Security Archive, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations — filed a similar suit in 2019 that was thrown out this year. One group that wasnt part of the first case is the American Historical Association.
The new complaint takes particular aim at the use of WhatsApp and private email accounts by the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. WhatsApp sends encrypted text messages that can only be viewed by the sender or receiver.
Kushner claims he takes screenshots of his WhatsApp messages, whose recipients have reportedly included Saudi Arabias Mohammed Bin Salman and Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, and sends them to his White House messaging account, where they are preserved.
But the historians say that isnt enough. A screenshot doesnt preserve a complete copy of the original message because it does not include metadata, attachments, and other digital artifacts needed to authenticate the message, according to the suit.[/QUOTE]
Amy Berman Jackson is the judge presiding. She previously dismissed a similar suit, saying that Congress would have to amend the law.
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