Empower NARA to fix record keeping

Federal Times: Recent revelations about the unauthorized disposal of email records at the IRS reveal a serious problem with the records management policies and practices of federal agencies. The IRS controversy is one of many recent cases in which government agencies failed to meet their legal and regulatory responsibilities in managing information. Without a significant shift to a more strategic focus for governing information, agencies are bound to continue repeating these mistakes, losing important information that should be available to Congress and the public.

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