DKos: "Rove & GWB43.com - National Security Threat?" (95%-Rove's-Email-On-That-Server Issue)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/24/172031/681

Karl Rove and GWB43.com - Huge National Security Threat?
by citizen92

Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 02:36:13 PM PDT
Over the past few days, there have been many great diaries about the recent discovery of the gwb43.com e-mail system. A story in the National Journal (only available by subcription) yesterday added an additional nugget - that Karl Rove does 95% of his e-mailing over that server. Nice. And end run around the Presidential Records Act. And a political move to hide what could be incriminating records.

What has not yet been mentioned, however, is the likely huge national security breach that might have resulted from Karl's cavalier practices.

Bear with me.

The White House is a huge target for electronic espionage by friendly and hostile foreign powers. For those of you who may have visited Washington, this may be evident when you stroll by the various embassies scattered around the city -- with their unusual sculptures of antennas and wires on their roofs. The Russians have a compound just three blocks north of the White House.

The US Government spends undisclosed amounts on countermeasures to protect its critical information and its secure networks. And it has the experts to make sure that those countermeasures are working. But, as usual, the government is focused on the foes outside -- not the foes within. Government, meet Karl Rove's OpSec (operational security) program.

MORE AT LINK

[grasswire]

1. yank his security clearance NOW

He's dangerous.

[orleans]

2. kos link also says:

"The "private email addresses" that Rove and some unidentified quantity of White House and possibly other government officials tracks back to a company called Smartech based in Chatanooga, TN. "

and then:

"Cannonfire also observes that the Ohio 2004 election results were tallied on systems maintained by Smartech."


see this post from march 21st
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x467855

[peacetalksforall]

3. Last year when Rove barely survived an indictment for the leak,

there was a 'semi-medium' deal made out of news that he had changed roles. I assumed from inferences in the news releases or talk about it that he would be moving out of the WH to handle future elections. There were snide comments about him continuing to direct things - remotely.

Was this use of outside e-mail established so that his operations could be hidden - possibly as a result of evidence that might have been available to Fitzgerald in the Plame investigation (something not prosecutable - at the time)?

[orleans]

4. kick n/t