by Amanda Witherell
The city attorney’s office in San Francisco has strongly advised against releasing public documents that may contain metadata, (except when it serves their own purposes, like getting to the bottom of how the 49ers move to Santa Clara slipped right by them.)
The House of Representatives doesn’t seem to have a problem with it though, as Rep. John Conyers, Jr. has asked for “all e-mail communications and all meta-data underlying them, stored on Republican National Committee (“RNC”) servers or otherwise in the possession, custody, or control of the RNC, that are related in any way to the recent firings by the Department of Justice of United States Attorneys, or to communications to the Congress about those terminations and related matters as set forth in this letter.”
Read the full text of his letter to RNC Chairman Robert M. Duncan, after the jump…