More RNC email issues within the White House

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Looks like up to 88 White House officials were using the RNC email accounts....meaning even more emails that were deleted thus violating the Presidential Records Act

http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070618105243.pdf

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The officials with RNC e-mail accounts include Karl Rove, the President’s senior advisor; Andrew Card, the former White House Chief of Staff; Ken Mehlman, the former White House Director of Political Affairs; and many other officials in the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Communications, and the Office of the Vice President.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[Amazon 7]

Seems the last 6 years has been an ongoing stream of "it only counts if we get caught and forced to comply with our constitution...our laws...and international treaties"

They dont apply to anyone in the administration because they are the good people ..fighting the evil people....hell those people dont even go to the same churches as we do.

[rushmc 23]

I wonder how this will shake out with yesterdays 6th circuit court of appeals ruling on email privacy?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

That ruling was about illegal searches of personal emails IIRC.....preventing authorites to search ISP records....thus making personal email much like private personal phone calls.

This RNC issue is about official emails exchanged and erased and wouldn't be covered by that ruling I would think, but then again I am not a lawyer.

Part of the PRA states: Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records. Those emails would be covered by the 6th's ruling. There is a procedure in place for the disposal of official communication within the White House and it seems that these 88 individuals have ignored that process.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[rushmc 23]

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That ruling was about illegal searches of personal emails IIRC.....preventing authorites to search ISP records....thus making personal email much like private personal phone calls.

This RNC issue is about official emails exchanged and erased and wouldn't be covered by that ruling I would think, but then again I am not a lawyer.

Part of the PRA states: Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records. Those emails would be covered by the 6th's ruling. There is a procedure in place for the disposal of official communication within the White House and it seems that these 88 individuals have ignored that process.

Thanks

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

According to this, Tony Snow is of the opinion that they have done their best to follow the law. Of course its a bit interesting how 100k emails were thought to be lost have suddenly turned up.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=alwTfX67vh5M&refer=politics

Bush administration spokesman Tony Snow said Waxman's report was being reviewed by White House Counsel Fred Fielding and there would be no direct comment until that was done.

``This is an administration that's been very careful about following the law,'' Snow said. ``We take it seriously.''

Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee looking into the White House's role in the political firings of U.S. prosecutors, said he has been told the White House has recovered many of Rove's e-mails previously believed lost.

``Now that we know more than 100,000 of Mr. Rove's secret e-mails have not been destroyed, I hope the White House will respond to my request for any e-mails from his account that are relevant to the Judiciary Committee's investigation,'' Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, said in a statement.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[Amazon 7]

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This is an administration that's been very careful about following the law,'' Snow said. ``We take it seriously.''

BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..

I needed that....MMMMKKK... right.......BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA