Where will the GWB43.com trail end?

[ProSense]

GWB43.com. About that RNC email system in the White House, a knowledgeable reader writes, "On an entirely separate note from these scandals, you might want to consider the Karl Rove/gwb43.com/RNC matter under a slightly different lens. The National Journal had a story in Friday's issue that quoted sources saying 'Karl does 95% of his e-mailing through the RNC system.' Presidential Records and other legalities aside, consider that from an intel perspective. The White House is a huge electronic surveilllance target - and the story about the gwb43.com domain has been out for at least two weeks. Might you suspect that friendly and hostile foreign intel agencies might have picked up on this fact and become curious about the 95% of the government's business that Karl is lobbing outside the system. Maybe they've visited the RNC's servers? I think there could be national security implications here." Not that the office's information security precautions were ever in question. Oh wait. More here.

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Waxman Warns RNC, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign: Don’t Delete Your Emails

Multiple congressional investigations have uncovered evidence that White House appointees regularly communicate using email accounts provided by the Republican Party. As CREW has argued, such activity violates the Presidential Records Act, which requires that the White House preserve such records.

Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) issued letters to the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign directing them to preserve all emails by and for White House officials, and to meet with the committee about the legal issues involved in conducting official government business using partisan email accounts. From Waxman’s letter:

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As Waxman points out in his letter, communications between criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and White House officials were conducted via nongovernmental e-mail accounts. “In at least one case, the e-mails indicate that these nonofficial accounts were being used because ‘to put this stuff in writing in their e-mail system…might actually limit what they can do to help us.’”

On Friday, National Journal reported that Karl Rove does almost all of his work with an RNC-based email account:

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So SMARTECH, company that hosts gwb43.com (owned by RNC), ALSO hosted the OHIO ELECTION RETURNS???

Fired prosecutors scandal shines suspicion on 2004 election, and it's not voter fraud

Video: Bush on e-mail

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[RevCheesehead]

1. The Hague, I hope.

[Forkboy]

2. In a courtroom with any luck!

:evilgrin:

[Solo_in_MD]

3. Most likely with empty logs and little else

You can not preserve what was not there in the first place. Its easy to run a no records server. That leaves nothing but current accounts, which doesn't help (much)

[ProSense]

4. They've already found

some records.

[Solo_in_MD]

5. Thats from the DOJ records not from the *mystery server*

And if logs were not kept, the only way they will be able to indentify traffic is from the other side of the transaction. If there was automated relaying involved, there could be headers that help, but not if it was forwarded manually.

[CK_John]

6. Search Rove's basement and car trunk. n/t

[guitar man]

7. too late

they are probably already moved to the new headquarters in Dubai :(