A federal judge has ruled that the Department of Justice is allowed to exempt 68 pages of e-mails sent between White House and Department of Justice officials from a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Democratic National Committee – despite the fact that the e-mails were sent using accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee – because the RNC accounts were used for both official and political business. The DNC had argued that because the accounts were controlled by the RNC, the e-mails could not be exempted from a Freedom of Information request. (The Politico)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=177687