PIC of the Day!

[blogslut]

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1225

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[acmavm]

1. Telling them to do something is one thing. Getting them to do it

is quite another. And so far, no one has been able to come up with a way to make them do anything they don't want to do.

[blogslut]

2. This is the RNC

I don't think they can claim executive privilege. At least, not publicly. :)

[liberal N proud]

3. No but they will claim that there is sensitive political information

They will try to prevent anyone from seeing all email because it is political in nature which is the problem with the whole mess anyway.

[blogslut]

4. Bummer

But I don't think political secrets have any special protection either. If the RNC fights this, well...they do so at their peril.

[acmavm]

5. Exactly.

[karlrschneider]

7. Betcha there are lot of hard drives being formatted right about now.

:eyes:

[blogslut]

8. Whoopsie!

Then again, who knows? Maybe they don't know how to format their hard drives.

I think this outside email stuff was never addressed when the DOJ/WH was busy scrambling together hard copy docs for Congress. Sure, they discussed it within the emails, during the course of the attorney ousters. But I think it just never came up when they thought they were being so clever. They thought they would overwhelm the House Judiciary Committee with all those documents.

They couldn't conceive that there were thousands of private citizens, willing to comb those documents until they found something. We found something and we found it because those goons over at RoveCo misunderestimated the power of the Interwebs.

[Danascot]

12. Reformatting does almost nothing

to get rid of data on a hard drive. The average computer user could recover almost everything that had been there using simple recovery programs available as a free download (example - PC Inspector File Recovery). More sophisticated programs exist that can recover almost anything ever recorded on the drive. There are ways to destroy the data but reformatting isn't one.

Let's impound all those computers and drives now! Sure it's a fishing expedition, but we know there's big ones out there to be caught!

[TahitiNut]

13. The only thing that's necessary is to 'erase' it past the skills of the person trying to find it.

The idea that such cata COULD be recovered bears little relevance to whether it WOULD be recovered. The people tasked to survey the existence of such data to assess compliance are rarely the sharpest knives in the drawer.

[acmavm]

10. I bet you're right.

[tecelote]

6. Hey - it's great they're being called on it!

[notadmblnd]

9. Finally!

nt

[ourvoicescount]

11. The more stirred up in this muck the better. Glad to see this.