“The definitive account about the circumstances that led to the loss of administration emails.” –The Intelligence Daily

The story of email during the George W. Bush administration

Email at the White House is strategic communication at the highest levels of the Executive Branch. It’s deep, personal, candid, unfiltered communication within the leadership of the most powerful nation on Earth.

And it’s (still) very, very broken.

This is the disturbing story that details how something as seemingly benign as White House email can have freaky national security consequences.

Could a crippled email system have led to strategic mistakes in Iraq?

The Bush White House claimed 5,000,000 emails may be missing. After unprecedented research, email expert David Gewirtz discovered the problem is about so much more than missing emails. Unchecked, some really, really bad things could happen.

Was the Hatch Act used as an excuse to bypass government servers, thereby giving a reasonable-sounding excuse to circumvent the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act?

Learn about technical and security concerns that blast through political rhetoric and even party affiliation.

Was IT management at the White House as incomprehensibly unprofessional as it seems — or was a pretense of cluelessness being used to divert questions of disclosure?

Read this book and you’ll understand the three root causes of the White House email problem. You’ll also understand how six very doable recommendations can quickly and easily bring security and safety back to White House email.

This is a heck of a story. Prepare to be freaked out…

Why this book was written

USSPI executive director David Gewirtz tells how he came to write about White House email:

“Back in April of 2007, it came to America’s attention that some email messages from the White House had gone missing. As the publisher of two of the largest publications dedicated to email and electronic communication, OutlookPower Magazine and DominoPower Magazine, it seemed appropriate for us to investigate this issue.

“I honestly expected to write one short article that would discuss the basics of the issue and then forget all about it. Of course, from the news reports in the mainstream media, there was really no way to know there was a nightmare scenario hidden inside the incredibly mundane topic that is email.

“Looking at the problem through the eyes of an email expert,” David continues, “I quickly saw some things that both the mainstream media and the Congressional investigators didn’t.

“Just a quick scan of the White House press briefing transcripts uncovered serious concerns about unsecured email communications that might affect national security, transitions in server technology during a time of war that might have caused both communications interruptions and historical records loss, and data management practices that seriously question the technical email infrastructure being used by the Executive Office of the President.

“It was time to get serious.

“The fact was, if I were to take my job seriously, there was no topic more appropriate for me to cover.”

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