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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 12:27 PM
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Guys, Waxman dropping a bomb on * today, your attention needed
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 12:30 PM
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1. kick!!!
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 12:50 PM
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2. K&R.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 12:53 PM
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3. So far, I've seen the story on several blogs/sites
Will the MSM pick up the story? Stay tuned for the Situation Room I guess.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 12:55 PM
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4. Don't hold thy breath! nt
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 12:56 PM
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5. The Hill has it now
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OregonBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:43 PM
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6. Forward to Keith, Wolf, etc., I just did!!
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:57 PM
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8. Excellent! KO often has A.B. Stoddard of The Hill as a guest. nt
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 03:02 PM
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10. Picked up by the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061800809.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Bush Officials Used RNC Server for Private E-mails
Disclosure Means Practice More Common Than Officials Acknowledged

By Paul Kane
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, June 18, 2007; 2:30 PM

Almost 90 White House officials have maintained private e-mail accounts on the server of the Republican National Committee, including top advisers such as Karl Rove and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, according to a House committee report released today.

The disclosure means the practice is much more common than Bush administration officials have previously acknowledged, the report noted.

The RNC has preserved more than 140,000 e-mails sent or received by Rove, but only 130 were written before President Bush won re-election in 2004, according to the report. The committee has preserved another 100,000 e-mails from two of Rove's top lieutenants, former White House political director Sara M. Taylor and deputy political director W. Scott Jennings, according to the House Oversight Committee.

But the RNC has no e-mail records for 51 of 88 White House officials -- such as Ken Mehlman, the White House political director from 2001 through early 2003 -- who used their servers in addition to government e-mail accounts, according to a summary of the panel's report...
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 03:06 PM
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11. The AP carrying the story
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/washington/8055697.html

White House Aides' E-Mail Records Gone
CHARLES BABINGTON
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday.

The Bush administration may have committed "extensive" violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved, said the committee's Democratic chairman, adding that the panel will deepen its probe into the use of political e-mail accounts.

The committee's interim report said the number of White House officials who had RNC e-mail accounts, and the number of messages they sent and received, were more extensive than previously realized.

The administration has said that about 50 White House officials had RNC e-mail accounts during Bush's presidency. But the House committee found at least 88...
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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 09:10 PM
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12. From The Hill:
Report: Bush aides may have circumvented records act

June 18, 2007


The destruction of e-mails from top White House officials “could be the most serious breach of the Presidential Records Act in the 30-year history of the law,” according to an interim report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

.....

According to the interim report, which was released Monday, there is “evidence of potentially extensive violations” of the law.
The committee said 88 officials, a number higher than the White House has said, held Republican National Committee (RNC) and Bush–Cheney ’04 campaign e-mail accounts and used these to conduct official White House business.

The report also stated that the RNC has not preserved e-mails for 51 of the officials.

Susan Ralston, a former executive assistant of top White House aide Karl Rove, testified in a deposition that many of these staffers used their RNC accounts on a regular basis.
The Presidential Records Act, put in place following the Watergate scandal, requires administrations to document and maintain records of the White House decision-making process.
“The evidence obtained by the Committee indicates that White House officials used their RNC e-mail accounts in a manner that circumvented these requirements,” the report states.

But Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), the ranking Republican on the oversight committee, blasted the report, saying the evidence presented does not justify the “breathless conclusions” it reaches.
“Good oversight is grounded in being thorough and complete,” said Davis, adding, “Everything about this report overreaches and prejudges.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), however, said the report shows that “this administration’s penchant for secrecy and disdain for oversight seems to know no bounds.”
Leahy called the actions of White House officials an “extensive end-run around the laws” that “leads one to wonder what these officials wanted to hide from the public and Congress.”

The committee will continue its investigation by seeking to determine what role the White House played in failing to preserve the e-mails. A focal point of this probe will be Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who served as White House counsel when President Bush took office.

The report indicated that the panel would take a more confrontational approach as the investigation widens.

“The Committee may need to issue compulsory process to the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign,” according to the report. “The campaign acknowledges that at least 11 White House officials used campaign e-mails, but it refuses to identify the full list of officials or provide basic statistical information to the Committee. This recalcitrance is an unwarranted obstacle to the Committee’s inquiry into potential violations of the Presidential Records Act.”


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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:59 PM
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9. I agree. Better to jump for joy IF AND WHEN it happens,...
,...at least, in my personal experience, better to do so.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 09:36 PM
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13. They just did! On CNN... here...
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:46 PM
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7. Why do I have the feeling Bush will do a double back-flip to make all this legal retroactively?
Oh, 'cause it's happened before. Damn -- I want to see this headline, "Bush arrested."
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 10:33 PM
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14. K&R
:nuke:
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 10:42 PM
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16. A follow on shot: "President George W. Bush 2004 Campaign Organization"
archived page from George Washington University

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/bush/bushorg.html

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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 10:41 PM
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15. He'll drop a bombshell when he does something of consequence
about it and he allows Sibel to give public testimony. Otherwise, he's just a passing face on C-Span.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 12:26 PM
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17. Actually, he's getting all this bullshit..
into the Congressional record. It must be nice to so easily dismiss another human being's existence because they have not measured up to your expectations. I think I'll try it.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-20-07 08:26 PM
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18. .
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