National Archives tells Congress some Trump admin records still unaccounted for – Axios

The National Archives and Records Administration told the House Oversight Committee in a letter released Saturday that some Trump administration records have yet to be recovered.Why it matters: The disclosure comes as Trump’s legal team and the Justice Department wage a protracted legal battle over the ex-president’s alleged possession of documents he was meant to turn over to the Archives upon leaving office.The Archives didn’t speak to whether any of the missing documents they referenced are in Trump’s possession, citing the DOJ’s probe into the matter.Driving the news: In a letter to Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) dated Sept. 30, acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote, “While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should.”Wall specifically cited official business that was conducted “using non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts” as an area of particular concern.”NARA has been able to obtain such records from a number of former officials and will continue to pursue the return of similar types of Presidential records from former officials,” Wall said.The letter comes in response to a Sept. 13 letter…
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