President elect Barack Obama’s CrackBerry addiction is no secret, but with the legal implications that would allow his email to be subpoenaed by Congress and courts, an electronic detox might be in order.  At the moment Obama’s transition officials haven’t made a decision on what device the new President will or will not carry, but many say he’s unlikely to carry his BlackBerry.

“This is a decision President-elect Obama will have to face,” said former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, who added that Obama’s legal advisers will probably recommend against an e-mailing president.

For a bit of comparison, a few days before President Bush took office in 2001 he sent an email to a few dozen close friends saying that he would no longer use email: “Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me.”

In an age when email is an essential aspect of business and personal life, it’s hard to imagine the President does not have access to high-grade encryption with algorithms no legal team could decipher.  Unfortunately any risk to the President’s personal information is worth protecting and a no email policy will be in order.  Looks like you can safely say you’d never find us running for President anytime soon.