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Bush's Digital Legacy
Another sign of just how quickly data is being generated comes out now as the Bush administration transfers power to the Obama administration. The Bush administration is required by law to transfer to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) all the records from his administration. It’s a crushing amount of data and information that includes 25,000 boxes of papers and 100 terabytes of electronic documents. Bush’s electronic document volume is 50 times the amount of electronic data left behind by the Clinton administration. The New York times reported that “Bush Data Threatens to Overload Archives”.
The Vice Presidential data legacy may not end up to be anywhere nearly as large. Dick Cheney argued that “The Vice President alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law”. Cheney’s views are being challenged by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
