For years Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive have been waging a legal battle to secure the recovery, proper storage and archiving of several million White House emails from March, 2003 to October, 2005. The missing emails became public knowledge after Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald notified Scooter Libby's defense attorneys of this gap in White House records. Thursday's ruling by Magistrate Judge John Facciola stated that the White House is ignoring the court's instructions to search a full range of locations for all electronic messages that may be missing.
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