What’s with the GWB43.com emails?

[babylonsister]

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What’s with the GWB43.com emails?


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But therein lies the point (or at least part of it). Rove’s deputy at the White House was communicating with the Justice Department, working on naming a new U.S. Attorney. This is government business. Why, then, use a Republican National Committee email address?

This may come as a surprise, but these details start to suggest that at the Bush White House, there’s no substantive difference between policy and politics. Shocking, I know.

More importantly, it might also suggest an effort on the part of staffers to cover their tracks.

Indeed, while there’s ample scrutiny applied to other aspects of this scandal, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) raises a very good point in calling for another investigation on this aspect of the controversy.

(CREW) sent a letter (yesterday) to Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), asking for an investigation into whether the White House has violated its mandatory record-keeping obligation under the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

One email, sent to Justice Department Chief of Staff D. Kyle Sampson from J. Scott Jennings, White House Deputy Political Director, uses an email account, [e-mail], on a server owned by the Republican National Committee. This raises serious questions about whether the White House was trying to deliberately evade its responsibilities under the PRA, which directs the president to take all necessary steps to maintain presidential records to provide a full accounting of all activities during his tenure.

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