Federal judge allows White House to deny FOIA request for missing e-mail records.

A federal judge ruled today that the White House Office of Administration, which likely has records of the White House’s knowledge of the millions of missing e-mails, is not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and thus does not have to turn over its e-mail record. The Office of Administration had responded to FOIA requests since its creation in 1978 until the Bush administration reversed that policy last year — after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed this lawsuit.