ROVE & CO. BROKE FEDERAL LAW With E-Mail Scam (Mother Jones)

[kpete]

Rove and Co. Broke Federal Law With Email Scam

Our friends at CREW are back in the news. They've put out a report saying "the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost over FIVE MILLION emails generated between March 2003 and October 2005." The White House was apparently given a plan to recover those emails, but has chosen to do nothing. I'm going to go ahead and guess that the plan to uncover those emails will never be undertaken unless done so with the power of a federal subpoena, because those emails were meant to be lost.

But guess what? Turns out, this is all illegal! Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post asked a White House spokesman to read aloud the White House's policy on email retention, and this is what he said:

"Federal law requires the preservation of electronic communications sent or received by White House staff... The official EOP e-mail system is designed to automatically comply with records management requirements."

Federal law? Holy cow! Deleting your emails is a federal offense, and the official email system is designed so emails will never be "accidentally" deleted. These guys are totally on the hook, right? Wait, there's more?

"Personnel working on behalf of the EOP (Executive Office of the President) are expected to only use government-provided e-mail services for all official communication."

So using email addresses belonging to the RNC and laptops and Blackberries on loan from the same is a violation of policy?

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/04/4151_rove_and_co_bro.html

[senseandsensibility]

1. kick

Important info here.

[donco6]

2. At this point, I'm tempted to say, "So what?"

They've gotten away with everything else. What makes anyone think this will stick. :banghead:

[Jackpine Radical]

7. You are so cynical...

so cynical you could pass for me.

My chain has been jerked by hope too many times to react all that much to the latest sure-fire takedown of Rove & co. Remember Plame? Remember Rove's indictment? Remember half a hundred other stories like that?

[Junkdrawer]

8. Rove does seem to be above the law...

Hey, Congress: prove me wrong....please...

[benld74]

3. I have been saying this since we found out about gwb43.com!

[rosesaylavee]

4. Waiting for

the other shoe to drop on this one. Patrick Fitzgerald? You still out there?

K & R

[C_U_L8R]

5. Not only is Rove's goose cooked

Old Turdblossom's looking like deep fried Turducken

[dogday]

6. They have broken the law so much, it is just another

straw on the back of that old criminal camel...... One day, one straw too many is going to bring it all down....

[kestrel91316]

9. K&R

[fooj]

10. Can we throw their treasonous asses in JAIL yet?

[tiptoe]

11. OMG!

THERE WON'T BE ANY MATERIAL TO PUT IN THE $500MM G.W.Bush LIBRARY!
:sarcasm:

[The Count]

12. I was hoping not to have any use of this ol' cartoon, but I'm not so sure anymore

[ejbr]

13. Isn't it a sad state of affairs

when the most obvious of law-breaking has occurred, to the degree that even the MOST staunch Republicans' should feel violated by their government, and we have come to the belief (knowledge?) that it matters not because our land of laws is no more.
:cry:

[The Count]

14. And from the "Rule of law!!!!" crowd, no less...

remember the yelling? Throughout the Clinton presidency and right through the stealing of the 2000 election!

[Bitwit1234]

15. Nothing will be done about it in the long run.

I was so impressed and proud when the committes in Washington starting out investigating this administration.

I am now not sure they are ever going to do anything. We know they would never be able to impeach bush and cheney. But I don't care. I wish they would start and bring to the surface all the rotten, illegal, unAmerican and crooked stuff they have done. Maybe some of the republicans senators will remember what country they are a member of and vote for impeachment.