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White House E-Mail: The Top-Secret Messages the Reagan Bush White House Tried to Destroy...
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by Thomas S. Blanton
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Paperback: 254 pages
Publisher: New Press; Pap/Dsk edition November 1995
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565842766
ISBN-13: 978-1565842762
Product Dimensions:
6.8 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Product Review
Reagan tried to destroy them, Bush tried to steal them, and Clinton tried to hide them--but the White House e-mail messages survived. Here are the highest-level communications on the most secret national security affairs of the US during the 1980s -- shockingly candid electronic exchanges you were never meant to see!
From Library Journal
This unique book offers a pastiche of actual, unaltered E-mail messages drawn from various members of the White House staff from the mid-1980s until late 1994. Edited by the executive director of the National Security Archive (NSA), the messages, which were officially declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the NSA, are arranged by topics (e.g., "Dancing with Dictators," "Spin Doctors") and then chronologically within the category. The book marks the organization's victory in establishing the principle of public access to govermental electronic communication. However, the text itself consists mainly of raw data that is difficult for a general reader to fit into the larger political context and that gives one a sense of voyeurism, intruding into private conversations not intended for a general audience. Despite the lack of coherence, the volume does provide an inside look at how the White House staff employed this new and less guarded means of communication. While somewhat of a novelty book, it may have a lasting impact on how the White House staff members use E-mail in the future, since their messages will now be accessible to the American people.?James Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Ollie North and pals erroneously thought that DELETE meant DELETE when using the White House email system. Editor Tom Blanton andthe National Security Archive people explain how the George Bush people tried to bury the evidence - then they present VERBATIM the evidence. Blanton reprints in the book about 240 of the 4,000 extant messages pried loose, and another 260 on diskette. You have to be combination History Wonk and Voyeur to truly appreciate these messages. In light of the litigation to recover Clinton White House email, this is a fascinating look at how the system works. Oh, and Ollie North comes across as knowing and controlling exactly what was going on - the Reagan-Bush administration's role in obfuscating the truth is patently obvious in reading these emails. Ain't Federal Immunity grand?
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