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DEUX et une moitié de mois dans son travail en 2001, le Président Bush se sont adressés à la société américaine des rédacteurs de journal et ont fait face à une question au sujet de gouvernement ouvert. Il vaut la peine de recalling l'échange :

Interpellateur : « Vous prendriez ce moment pour articuler votre propre vue des libertés du premier amendement et pour nous donner un sens du message fondamental que vous enverrez à votre administration comme elle fait des décisions dessus si s'ouvrir ou l'accès étroit à l'information de gouvernement ? »

Bush : « Il faut équilibre quand il vient à la liberté de lois de l'information. There are some things that when I discuss in the privacy of the Oval Office or national security matters that just should not be in the national arena.

“On the other hand, my administration will cooperate fully with a Freedom of Information request if it doesn’t jeopardize national security, for example. The interesting problem I have, or for me, as the president, is what’s personal and what’s not personal. And, you know, frankly, I haven’t been on the job long enough to have had to make those choices. … I used to be an avid e-mailer, and I e-mailed to my daughters or e-mailed to my father, for example, and I don’t want those e-mails to be in the public domain. …

But we’ll cooperate with the press, unless we think it’s a matter of national security or something that’s entirely private.”

Today, you’re no longer a rookie, Mr. President. You should be clear by now about what is a public e-mail and what is a family e-mail.

It is a matter of public concern that at least 5 million White House e-mails are missing. A watchdog group has sued for the White House Office of Administration to turn over information about the e-mails, some related to the firing of U.S. attorneys.

Last week, the Justice Department argued that the office is not subject to the open-records law. The office’s Web site, however, tells anyone how to use the law to request documents.

Bush has failed in his commitment to open government by losing sight of what is the public’s business. It is not - and has never been - a fatherly e-mail to his daughters.

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