be preserved if the use of a personal e-mail on a regular basis is allowed and even thought to be okay long-term? the guidance that we have given to everybody who works here at the white house and i think this is consistent with the guidance that federal employees and agencyies across the government have received that they should use their official e-mail account when official business is being conducted. when business is conducted personal e-mail accounts should be forwarded to the agency. here at the white house, it s assal simple as jiflt forwarding it to your official government account so that those e-mails can be properly maintained and preserved. but that s a personal responsibility and do you think that the rules need to be tightened up because ill seems to leave a big gap there on who s going to forward that eric mail and who s going to make sure that that e-mail is forwarded. the law is pretty clear u about what s necessary to