McClatchy Covers Rove RNC E-mail Story (from Miami Herald) "Rove E-mails May Have Broken Law"

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http://www.miamiherald.com:80/416/story/143853.html

Karl Rove e-mails may have broken the law
BY RON HUTCHESON
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WASHINGTON -- Presidential advisor Karl Rove sent more than 140,000 e-mails through the Republican National Committee's computer system, circumventing a federal law intended to guarantee the preservation of presidential records, House of Representatives investigators have concluded.

While 88 White House aides used the back-channel system, Rove was its biggest user at the White House, and more than half of his communications dealt with official business, according to an interim report by the House Oversight Committee.

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But the line between official communications and partisan political messages seems to have been blurred. Susan Ralston, a former aide to Rove, told congressional investigators that Rove sent almost all of his e-mails through the RNC system and used a Blackberry that he received from the Republican Party from his first day at the White House.

Although 140,216 of Rove's e-mails have been preserved, committee investigators found that e-mails from 51 of the 88 White House aides who used the back-channel message system appear to have been destroyed.

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1. may have?

but try to get him jailed! The rule of law only pertains to Democrats.

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2. "All roads lead to Rove" by David Iglesias (plus more from a parent thread)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x960239#993152