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CREW RESPONDS TO SEN. STEVENS’ CONVICTION
27 Oct 2008 // Washington, DC- In light of Senator Ted Stevens' conviction on all seven counts today, Melanie Sloan, former federal prosecutor and executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, released the following statement:
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JUDGE UPHOLDS NARA WITHOLDINGS
30 Sep 2008 // Washington, DC - Today in CREW v. the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), a lawsuit CREW brought under the FOIA for documents related to the Secret Service's treatment and preservation of White House visitor records, District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton upheld the vast majority of NARA's withholdings as deliberative or protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. More»
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JUDGE ISSUES ORDER EXPLAINING BASIS FOR DEPOSITIONS IN CREW LAWSUIT AGAINST CHENEY
25 Sep 2008 // Last night Judge Kollar-Kotelly issued an order in CREW, et al. v. Cheney, et al., explaining the basis for authorizing CREW to take the depositions of David Addington and NARA official Nancy Smith. The judge explained that each declaration submitted by the White House defendants raised new questions still unanswered and for which she needs answers in order to rule on the merits. More»
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WHITE HOUSE FILING IN CREW LAWSUIT REVEALS NO BACKUP TAPES DURING LAUNCH OF IRAQ WAR
6 May 2008 // Late last night, in response to an order of the court in CREW v. EOP, the White House filed a third declaration of Office of Administration Chief Information Officer Theresa Payton in which the White House admitted, among other things, that it has no backup tapes for White House emails for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003.
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COURT EXTENDS ORDER REQUIRING WHITE HOUSE TO RETAIN BACK-UP COPIES OF E-MAILS
24 Apr 2008 // Today in CREW v. Executive Office of the President, et al., Magistrate Judge John Facciola issued a report and recommendation that the preservation order now in place requiring the White House to preserve certain back-up copies of missing e-mails be extended in several key respects.
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SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE RESPONDS TO CREW COMPLAINTS AGAINST NOW FORMER SEN. FRIST - TWO YEARS LATER
4 Feb 2008 // In the fall of 2005, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed two Senate Ethics complaints against now former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN). Today, over two years later, CREW received a response from the Senate Ethics Committee.
CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan made the following statement:
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JUDGE ISSUES TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER IN CREW LAWSUIT AGAINST THE WHITE HOUSE
12 Nov 2007 // U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's (CREW) request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the White House from destroying back-up copies of millions of deleted emails while the lawsuit is pending.
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CREW SUES WHITE HOUSE AND NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION OVER LOST EMAILS
25 Sep 2007 // Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration challenging as contrary to law their knowing failure to recover, restore and preserve millions of electronic communications created and/or received within the White House.
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CREW SENDS FOIA TO COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
12 May 2006 // Washington, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a FOIA request to CEQ asking for all records in the agency’s possession mentioning or relating to the causes associated with global warming or climate change.
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