The White House’s Office of Administration isn’t subject to the Freedom of Information Act and can keep from the public records of what could be millions of lost e-mails, an appeals court ruled. The unit of the president’s office performs ...

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Attorney General Eric Holder directed executive-branch agencies not to withhold public records simply because they may do so legally, reversing a Bush administration policy. In a memo to government agencies Thursday, Holder encouraged agencies to “make discretionary disclosures of information,” ...

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