Patrice McDermott, Director OpenTheGovernment.org www.openthegovernment.org 202.332.OPEN (6736) - Nixon Tapes and Transcripts Available Online The purpose of this website is to make these transcripts available, side-by-side multiple audio formats, to members of the public who are not able to travel to the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland, or to the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, to listen to and transcribe the conversations for themselves. more [thanks to beSpacific.com] *** - White House e-mails lost despite daily audits Bloomberg News 08.31.2007 ... The White House has failed to identify the outside contractor that conducted daily audits of the e-mail system. The revelation that there were daily audits suggests that e-mails were destroyed, said Anne Weismann, general counsel of the nonprofit watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sued the Bush administration in May over the missing e-mails. "It's hard to imagine it could have been a technical problem," Weismann said in an interview. It is "incomprehensible that e-mail could go missing and it not be caught." The White House Office of Administration hired the outside firm to conduct daily audits of its e-mail archiving system, yet its analysis found that the system failed to preserve e-mails on any given day, Waxman said. more [Bloomberg News via AZ Star]