Obamacare head Marilyn Tavenner told a top HealthCare.gov press official to delete an e-mail related to HealthCare.gov during the botched launch
Tavenner directly told CMS’s communications director, Julie Bataille, to delete an email chain with White House officials about HealthCare.gov and contractor Serco.
“Please delete this email-but please see if we can work on call script,” Tavenner wrote to Bataille, upon receiving an email chain discussing talking points on getting through the then-nonfunctional Obamacare website and efforts of Obamacare contractor Serco.
“This contradicts the letter sent to the National Archives, which explained that practice was to instruct subordinates to retain copies of e-mails,”
when HealthCare.gov was crashing, those in charge were hitting delete key