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2016 Postmortem

HereSince1628

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19. Under the US archiving guidelines, each dept sets its own specific rules for what's saved

Reply to passy (Reply #13)

Sun Apr 3, 2016, 08:17 AM

Apr 2016

and the head of an agency has ultimate authority on those rules. I suppose that's because the business of the agencies is so different it's hard to write a general policy that wouldn't result in over-archiving. I'm sure historians and lawyers would love all stuff to be saved, but I'm not sure the archives want to have to sort, maintain, and create accession identifiers for all that.

In some sense, HRC as SOS got to make her own decisions about her own stuff while she was secretary. It seems she felt she could carry that authority forward after she left office. I suppose she could argue that the decisions about what was work related was made during the time she wrote the email and she had that authority.

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Why would delete your personal emails in the first place. passy Apr 2016 #13

Under the US archiving guidelines, each dept sets its own specific rules for what's saved HereSince1628 Apr 2016 #19

It wasn't the point I was trying to make passy Apr 2016 #20

My experience with computer records requests is limited HereSince1628 Apr 2016 #24

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