“With this production, the RNC has now produced to the Committee the responsive documents identified through agreed-upon electronic search terms in the e-mail database that the RNC compiled in April 2007, subject to three qualifications.” • The three qualifications included: White House review and redactions for executive branch interests, withholding communications with RNC counsel, and withholding communications with personal counsel. • In addition, on May 30, 2007, Mr. Kelner wrote to the Oversight Committee to report that the RNC’s computer contractor “analyzed the RNC’s decommissioned server and concluded that it does not contain any active e-mails to or from the accounts of White House employees.” • Under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, providing a materially false statement to Congress is a crime. During the Bush-RNC email investigation, Chairman Waxman did not demand that a third party double-check the process RNC attorneys used to identify and produce officials emails to Congress, and he did not insist on access to RNC servers, backup tapes, or non-official emails sent to or from White House officials.
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