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By Allan Holmes January 21, 2009 comments

As Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, blogs: "Obama Will Get His Blackberry."

As mentioned before, Obama, like any technologically tuned in politico, was hooked on his Blackberry.

Ambinder wrote:

On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration -- but that is probably the National Security Agency -- added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package.... and Obama WILL be able to use it ... still for routine and personal messages.

As for the problem of preserving digital messages as presidential records, he wrote:

The messages, like other White House communications, will kept from the public for the duration of his presidency, if not longer.

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