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What were the two organizations that filed suit against the white house?
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National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
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How many Bush-era messages were recovered by the Obama White House?
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22 million
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How many messages are still unrecovered and what characterizes them?
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They are politically-oriented email and there's probably 103.6 million or more missing
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Once recovered, where do the email messages go for final storage?
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
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What was the name of the Clinton-era records management system?
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ARM (automated records management).
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How much information can a smartphone hold
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The low-end iPhone 4 can hold 6,250 King James Bibles or 1,750 complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels
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When AT&T leaked confidential iPad owner information, how many people were affected?
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114,000
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How much data did the National Archives lose when it lost a hard drive in May 2009?
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It lost at least 100,000 Clinton-era confidential personnel records, including SSNs, along with details of confidential White House procedures including Secret Service procedures.
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How much (in paper) can a 2 terabyte hard drive hold?
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800,000 bibles would reach 21.5 miles high, 3.9 times the height of Mount Everest, 3.2 times the greatest ocean depth - the height of 372.2 Statues of Liberty, stacked on top of each other.
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What information was found in Iran from the President's helicopter?
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Marine One's cockpit electronics, but the rest can't really be discussed
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What are the White House communications categories
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Classified command-and-control, policy communication via EOP systems, and political communications through the open Internet.
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Describe the P2P problem
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"The problem is that the underlying technology is too wildly complex for most consumers to grasp with any depth, availability of the technology is too wide, too cheap, and too embedded in the fabric of society to be successfully controlled by any governing body, and security threats seem too far-fetched to be worth the extra effort and care understanding would require
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How did Federal Court Magistrate Judge John Facciola describe email at the White House?
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"the most fundamental and useful contemporary records." of the presidency (fachi-ola)
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Who was the White House CIO and what office was she in?
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Theresa Payton, Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President
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What period of time has email missing?
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One court order shows 2003-2005, but ALL political email has not been archived.
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Who was the RNC's ISP during Bush II?
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SMARTech, in Chattanooga, Tennesee
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What was the name of the Mexican who stole White House smartphones in New Orleans?
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Rafael Quintero Curiel
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Why was the Hatch Act created?
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It was originally created as a way to prevent federal employees from joining any organization whose goals included the overthrow of the United States government
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What is the Hatch Act for today?
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prohibits fed employees from engaging in political activity while on duty and prevent federal funds from being used for political purposes
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What is an unintended security side effect of the Hatch Act?
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It forces White House staffers to use private-sector resources for communication, bypassing the government's security resources.
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What is a PRA side effect of the Hatch Act??
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It gives politicians in the White House an excuse for bypassing Presidential Records Act requirements.
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When was the Secret Service created?
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By Teddy Roosevelt in 1901 in response to the McKinley assassination. Before that, Presidential security was up to "some guy" who each President hired, if they hired anyone.
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Why should the Secret Service Operation the Electronic Communications Protection Detail?
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They already operate the Presidential Protection Detail and they operate a network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces and Working Groups, so most technical expertise needed to establish an electronic detail is already in place.
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How is the new Obama BlackBerry secured?
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NSA-certified Type 1 ruggedized smartphone, developed for the National Security Agency's SME PED (Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device)
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What email was lost, according to Bush CIO Theresa Payton's testimony?
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all email correspondence from the period of March 1 through May 23, 2003, as much as 225 days of email from 2003
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What happened in 2003?
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U.S. began its invasion of Iraq. U.S. forces seized control of Bagdad. President Bush climbed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln under the banner "Mission Accomplished"
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What happened with Sarah Palin's email?
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During the campaign, her Yahoo email account was hacked, using password recovery feature of Yahoo and publicly available information about the then VP candidate
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How many BlackBerries did Karl Rove carry
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One, for both types of access
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If stolen, what could a thief or terrorist find in an official's BlackBerry?
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They could have home addresses of relatives of key U.S. officials. They could have pictures of their kids. They could have passwords, access codes, phone numbers, directions to secret undisclosed locations.
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If compromised, what can "spy software" do once put onto a BlackBerry?
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single BlackBerry can be turned into a shockingly powerful surveillance device, hear everything that the phone's microphone can pick up, undetectably listen in on phone coversations, get copies of every email and text sent and received by the device.
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Where did the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerrys take place?
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Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans
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What was the event where the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerrys took place?
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George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderón were meeting at the North American Leaders' Summit in New Orleans
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Why would the New Orleans conference require White House staff to leave BlackBerrys outside on a table?
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Presumably this was to prevent pictures from being taken, recordings from being made, and prevent other disturbances during the meeting
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Who was Quintero Curiel?
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served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and guiding the Mexican media around at the conference
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How many BlackBerrys did Curiel steal
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2, so it was clearly not a case of picking up the wrong device
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Which Mexican President complained that the U.S. had taken more than 1/2 its territory in the Mexican-American war?
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Carlos Salinas in 1994
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When was the Mexican-American war?
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1846
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How big is Mexico?
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11th largest population, bigger than France, Germany, and the U.K. Makes more income than 70 Googles, 12th largest GDP
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What did White House CIO Theresa Payton say about Lotus Notes?
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"It is no longer supported. Some people use it, but it's no longer supported". -- In fact, it's IBM's flagship product
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What did Rep Darrell Issa say about Lotus Notes?
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I wouldn't want to do business with somebody still using Lotus Notes or still using wooden wagon wheels.
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Who was the whistle-blower who originally brought the email problem to the public's attention
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Steven McDevitt, a White House IT guy in the office of the chief information officer
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How many PST files did the Bush admin archive?
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5000+ PST files, each at or above 2GB
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What is a good analogy for how inadvisable changing from Notes to Exchange in the middle of war is?
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How big is the EOP network?
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3000 users and customers, in excess of 200 servers, and over 100 applications.
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What is email at the White House?
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deep, candid, often shockingly personal communication within the leadership of the most powerful nation in the world.
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When did the White House switch from Notes to Exchange?
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In the middle of the 2002-2003 build up to war with Iraq.
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Who was Attorney General when the U.S. attorneys were dismissed in 2006?
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Alberto Gonzolez
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Who attempted to delete mail in connection to the Reagan Era Iran-Contra affair?
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National Security Advisor Admiral John Poindexter, detailing his an Ollie North's involvement in the affair
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Who tried to get the courts to permit Reagan to destroy all email records at the end of his term?
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John Bolton, who would eventually become a controversial UN ambassador during Bush II
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What happened at the end of the Bush I presidency?
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A deal was struck with the Archivist of the United States Don Wilson to bundle all the backup tapes and send them to the Bush Library. Wilson was discredited in court and lost his job, only to wind up as the director of the Bush Library.
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What did Bill Clinton try to do to the National Security Council?
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In 1994, he tried to define it out of existence as an agency to put it beyond the reach of federal archiving law and keep NSC email from being saved
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How long after leaving office does the nation have to wait to see Presidential Records?
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12 years, although Bush II eliminated that, making it only up to former presidents. President Obama overturned that executive order.
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How many U.S. Attorneys were fired in the event that started the email mess?
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eight
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When was the Presidential Records Act passed?
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In 1978
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What's the real name of the Hatch Act?
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An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities
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Why was the Hatch Act big in the 1950s?
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prevent federal employees from joining an organization that wants to overthrow the government (it was big during the “red scare” of the 1950s)
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What was the political White House domain during Bush II
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GWB43.gov
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What was the name of the company providing GWB43.com services
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SMARTech, in Chattanooga, Tennesee
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What's the link between SMARTech and the RNC
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Senator Bob Corker, who was mayor of Chatanooga and who is now a U.S. Senator
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What about Lotus Notes makes the missing emails claims particulary improbable
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Lotus Notes is designed, at the DNA level, for replication
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How many emails did Karl Rove alone send from open email servers to or from .gov accounts?
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More than 70,000 according to congressional testimony
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How did we find out about Karl Rove's missing BlackBerrys
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Buried in Congressional testimony by Rove's executive Assistant, Susan Ralston, before the House Oversight Committee
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What kind of communication is email
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Casual communication, unedited communication
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What features must be available in all EOP BlackBerrys and iPhones?
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Remote location and remote wipe - there are some of these features available now, but they are very slow
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