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Rove: Remembering E-mails Is Like Remembering 'Raindrop In A Thunderstorm'
Justin Elliott | August 11, 2009, 3:47PM
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The Washington Post does us the favor of tallying the "I don't recall"-s that saturate the hundreds of pages of Miers and Rove interview transcripts.
In 10 hours, Harriet Miers said she couldn't remember events almost 150 times.
Asked if Miers ever responded to an October 2006 email from Rove with the subject line "Domenici is calling me about the USA for New Mexico", Rove offered investigators this gem:
"I don't recall. I generally receive hundreds of e-mails a day, and asking me to remember replies is like asking me to remember a raindrop in a thunderstorm."
Read that section of the interview right here.
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DFH
August 11, 2009 4:58 PM
"asking me to remember replies is like asking me to remember a raindrop in a thunderstorm..."
If there is any justice in the universe, he'll soon be saying the same thing about the thousands of mind-numbingly boring hours in prison he'll be serving.
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johnnydoughey
August 11, 2009 5:22 PM in reply to DFH
"... boring hours in prison he'll be serving."
Except that in the new streamlined decay of this great nation, prosecuting and putting important people in prison is no longer accepted.
What Rove did, although in my opinion highly illegal and completely against the values we admire, pales in comparison to torturing people and holding them for years without trial... something "We The People" now apparently condone, since we are now supporting mobsters who have been protecting them.
This health care discussion is important, but torturing human beings and sending innocent people to their deaths without bothering to investigate facts is nothing less than tromping over the graves of over 2 million REAL patriots who have given their lives over this nation's history to PREVENT this from happening anywhere in the world....
... and yes, I believe Rove should be prosecuted... along with the other regime members, not in place of them. There is no equal justice without both occurring. IMHO
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JoshQuasimoto
August 11, 2009 5:48 PM
an Answer to Karl's analogy, " Well then wouldn't you think that preserving those email records would be an important and proper thing to do for the American people? Your administration refused time after time to release those emails, your administration decided to use a GOP server to communicate federal business, so isn't this exactly why we should ensure that these types of records are kept Karl?"
What a smart as*h@le and a pathetic excuse for a government representative/associate/adviser!
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SadButTrue
August 12, 2009 10:08 AM
Here's where the analogy fails -- Rove is talking about ONE raindrop in a thunderstorm. But there must have been hundreds of e-mails on this one subject. After a point they are the storm, not just one raindrop.
Here's another point where the analogy fails. You may not remember details of a thunderstorm you experience because the experience is passive. Rove was DIRECTING the activities described in these emails, an ACTIVE player.
The correct analogy might be more like -- "you don't remember one bullet in the St. Valentine's Day massacre." That doesn't exonerate you for holding the machine gun and pulling the trigger, does it?
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Jesus B Ochoa
August 12, 2009 10:25 AM
I remember back in the day when this son of a bitch began his career in evil when he sicked the FBI - which was all to ready to take the bait - and made false accusations which cost my pal Jim Hightower his re-election bid for secretary agriculture of Texas.
He was defeated by that empty headed fool - except for the hair - who went on to become our secessionist governor who has made a career out of stupid.
I am 75 and in pretty poor health, so I won't be around when he is in jail counting hours instead of raindrops. But you can bet I'll be watching and cheering from that other dimension.
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