White House aides' e-mail records gone (for 51 of the 88 White House officials - 8-o)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/18/07 | Charles Babington - ap

[NormsRevenge]

An WH email gap exists.

so what else is new? :-}

[NormsRevenge]

The report: http://www.oversight.house.gov/

[texas_mrs]

Check their socks. If there, no problem, just sloppy recordkeeping!! :)

[Russ]

I wonder how many Democrat members of the senate and house have DNC e-mail accounts? Oh, that doesn’t matter...

[WBL 1952]

Is there a story here? Maybe I missed it.

[martin_fierro]

Where was Batboy's concern for e-mail integrity during the Clintoons' Project X scandal?

[DemEater]

“I wonder how many Democrat members of the senate and house have DNC e-mail accounts? Oh, that doesn’t matter...”

Is there a law similar to the Presidential Records Act that applies to congress?

[Chuck54]

OMG, this could be hugh.

[3AngelaD]

I would LOVE to know how they managed to destroy numerous emails on numerous computers without throwing the hard drives thereon into the Potomac. But since this report comes from Waxman, I am not sure they did.

[Chuck54]

..and series.

[Cementjungle]

And of course we can account for every email ever written in the Clinton White House. Heck, they even stole the computers.

[Chuck54]

.....you can bet they didn’t use the letter “W” too.

[TexasCajun]

"No! That was not me coming out of Barny Frank s basement apartment. "

[Dixie Yooper]

Oh No! Another Watergate missing tape scandal! This will feed the press for the next 8 years.

[joebuck]

"The RNC has preserved e-mails from some of the heaviest users, including 140,216 messages sent or received by Bush's top political adviser in the White House, Karl Rove."

I wonder how many of those were Nigerian bank scams and Penis enlargement spam ads?

[rlmorel]

LOL! THAT is just AWESOME! (Did you do that yourself???)

[rlmorel]

An entirely new definition of "rat-faced"....

Wow. An existing species of Demonratus Rodentius.

[BGHater]

The documents in the attorney firing “scandal” show that some of the correspondence regarding the firing of the U.S. Attorneys (by definition, government business) was done using these RNC email accounts.

The use of RNC email accounts to conduct government business poses two potential problems for the Bush administration:

Firstly, such communications will not fall under executive privilege because the use of (potentially insecure) private or RNC email accounts indicates that the correspondents were not treating the business as privileged communications.

Secondly, to the extent that these email accounts were being used to conduct government business, the deletion of any emails to or from these accounts would be a violation of the Presidential Records Act.

[NoBullZone]

This is what happened in the Clinton years:

Hall said Northrop Grumman e-mail expert Robert Haas told her and another witness in a late June 1998 meeting in her office that he stored the files on a zip disk. He told Congress another story, she says, to save his White House job.

Haas, while “pacing” in her office, told her and White House computer specialist Sharon Mitchell that he “feared for his life” and wanted to show a friend what he’d found while searching the trove of missing e-mail, Hall said.

He said he’d stumbled onto e-mails tied to Chinagate, Filegate and other White House scandals, Hall recounted.

Haas said the “results (of investigations) would be different and other people would go to jail” if investigators had the e-mails, she said.

Though he has denied being afraid for his life, Haas has accused two White House officials of threatening him with jail if he didn’t keep Project X secret.

[The South Texan]

The reason that this is an issue is because the WH and the RNC allowed it to become one like they have some of these other scandels. IF our side would for once play ball with these clowns and turnover stuff about DNC or Democrats and their “illegal” contacts, etc., Then maybe, just maybe Waxman would go back to his room.