EPA Workers Destroyed Millions Of Official Documents

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EPA Employees Not ‘Intentionally’ Breaking Law By Deleting Official Texts, IG Claims

Kathryn Watson
11:26 PM 12/21/2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials only archived 86 text messages out of 3.1 million agency employees sent and received in 2015, according to a federal watchdog’s report made public Wednesday by House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith.

The EPA Office of Inspector General (IG) released the report requested by the Texas Republican, which described enormous text message retention problems within the EPA. One unnamed senior official configured his phone to automatically delete texts after 30 days.

Multiple federal laws and regulations require that officials preserve all documents — including email and text messages — created in the course of conducting official business of the U.S. government

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/epa-employees-are-not-intentionally-breaking-the-law-by-deleting-official-texts/.

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That doesn't make sense.

Email message retention happens at the server.  What the individual user does is irrelevant.

Why would anyone want to carry around junk forever?