How Something as Seemingly Benign as White House E-mail Can Have Freaky National Security Consequences which explores the controversy from a technical perspective and, according to The Intelligence Daily, is "the definitive account about the circumstances that led to the loss of administration emails.

[12] In 1986, Gewirtz was hired as director of product marketing for Living Videotext, where he worked for controversial blogging and RSS pioneer Dave Winer.

[13] He also held the unusual title of "Godfather" at Apple Inc.,[3] and served on the board of the Software Entrepreneurs Forum (now SVForum) in Santa Clara County, California.

He identifies five areas of concern: He first claims the White House's e-mail archiving system is inadequate to the point of negligence.

[21] His second claim is that the White House has given no technically sound reason for switching e-mail systems from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook.

During Payton's testimony phase, Congressman Darrell Issa asked, "Lotus Notes no longer exists, right?"

He claims in the 2,072 days between September 11, 2001 and May 15, 2007, a minimum of 103.6 million messages were likely sent by White House staffers on Republican National Committee servers.

He cites numerous national security risk scenarios that could occur due to possible interception of White House email messages.

This concern was proven true during the week of April 21, 2008 when Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance man for the Mexican delegation, was caught stealing BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who were at the 2008 North American Leaders' Summit.

[24] In a subsequent article after the publication of the book, Gewirtz also cites additional Payton statements[25] that show an alarming lack of security for personal computers within the White House and for portable media such as flash drives.

[26] He recommends the establishment of a professional, administration-spanning "Electronic Communications Protection Detail" reporting to the United States Secret Service.

Finally, he recommends the Electronic Communications Protection Detail manage all email, archiving, and messaging security for White House staff.