Liuzzo
19-04-2007, 02:46
In an attempt to be truthful with the American People the White House is thinking of claiming executive privilege over private emails sent by their staffers regarding the firing of 8 US attorneys. The problem is that these emails were originally sent over the RNC server to avoid transparency in the first place. The White House cannot legally claim executive privilege for emails sent (technically) by the RNC. It would be like Microsoft claiming rights to all emails sent by the execs as Google. I think it's kind of funny when you attempt to avoid being caught doing something and in doing so you sew the seeds for your own implication in an illegal act. See story below and add your thoughts.
linky (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/politics/politico/thecrypt/main2696174.shtml?source=search_story)
22 current White House officials, including Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff and President Bush's top political advisor, have private e-mail accounts on RNC servers that are supposed to be used for political work. Democrats, in investigating the U.S. Attorney purge, as well as contacts between Bush administration officials and imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and other incidents, found that some White House officials may be using the RNC accounts to avoid the Presidential Records Act, which requires the president and his top aides to retain records of all official actions.
The probe of the RNC accounts led to the further revelation that the White House may have lost as many as 5 million official e-mails thanks to a software malfunction, although the White House says is may be able to recover these messages and has told Democrats that it will consult them in appointing a forensic expert to handle the effort.
OOPSIE, we accidentally lost all of the emails related to information which might incriminate us. Our bad.
linky (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/politics/politico/thecrypt/main2696174.shtml?source=search_story)
22 current White House officials, including Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff and President Bush's top political advisor, have private e-mail accounts on RNC servers that are supposed to be used for political work. Democrats, in investigating the U.S. Attorney purge, as well as contacts between Bush administration officials and imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and other incidents, found that some White House officials may be using the RNC accounts to avoid the Presidential Records Act, which requires the president and his top aides to retain records of all official actions.
The probe of the RNC accounts led to the further revelation that the White House may have lost as many as 5 million official e-mails thanks to a software malfunction, although the White House says is may be able to recover these messages and has told Democrats that it will consult them in appointing a forensic expert to handle the effort.
OOPSIE, we accidentally lost all of the emails related to information which might incriminate us. Our bad.