CREW is suing the Executive Office of the President (yes, President Bush) over missing White House e-mails. CREW is challenging the White House's failure to preserve and restore millions of emails deleted from White House servers from March 2003 forward. Our report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act, details the legal issues behind the story of the White House e-mail scandal.

Today, CREW filed a temporary restraining order (TRO) with the court in our case, CREW v. Executive Office of the President. CREW filed this motion in the face of the White House's refusal to give CREW assurances that all back-up copies of the deleted emails are being preserved. The White House has refused to identify what back-up copies of the deleted emails currently exist and has refused to commit to preserving all existing back-up copies.

The TRO and accompanying materials can be found here.