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Senate to White House: Really? Tell Us More
With regard to those lost emails by White House officials using RNC-issued email accounts, there are a lot of unanswered questions.
And so Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) along with the panel’s Ranking Member, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), wrote to White House counsel Fred Fiedling today to try and get some answers.
Some of those questions that need answering:
...we would like to know what was done in the past and whether any private e-mail retention policies were in place. We would also like to know how and when the White House first learned of the problem with private e-mail account usage and when it first came to light that e-mails may have been lost.
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Comments (38)
EH wrote on April 12, 2007 6:09 PM:I can't help but think this all is designed to create a boondoggle of the USAttorney mess.
Pinson wrote on April 12, 2007 6:13 PM:Loved this line:
"...we suggest that the WHite House consult with us and the other congressional committess engaged in affected investigations and that we jointly agree upon a fair and objective process for investigating this matter, including the use of a mutually trusted computer foresics expert."
otob wrote on April 12, 2007 6:16 PM:This is not the America I learned about as a kid. Did that America ever exist?
On another note: at least all that warrantless wiretapping will be useful.
powkat wrote on April 12, 2007 6:18 PM:Hee, hee, hee.
ahem wrote on April 12, 2007 6:32 PM:It's good that Leahy (and Specter) picked up on that last graf in the WaPo piece, which revealed the new policy to be 'if in doubt, leave it out' as far as official archiving goes.
The Presidential Records Act makes it pretty clear where the authority lies in determining what gets thrown out. It's not the job of 'White House lawyers', who are trying to engage in Hatch Act ass-coverage while screwing over the PRA.
As for choice lines, I loved Conyers' suggestion to the RNC that before declaring emails 'lost forever, sorry' they ought to discuss it with the House committee's technical experts.
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barrelhse wrote on April 12, 2007 6:36 PM:The RNC and the White House are in deep shit now. They may prolong the agony through stall-tactics, yet each day exposes more odious shenanigans with one common denominator: Illegality.
barrelhse wrote on April 12, 2007 6:42 PM:If April comes...
The RNC and the White House are in deep shit now. They may prolong the agony through stall-tactics, yet each day exposes more odious shenanigans with one common denominator: Illegality.
libra wrote on April 12, 2007 6:55 PM:If April comes...
[...]and when it first came to light that e-mails may have been lost.
About 5 minutes after it became evident that said e-mails might be requested by Congress
code:animal, as in:(white)house
Youffraita wrote on April 12, 2007 6:55 PM:Yup. Definitely let's call in that expert in computer forensics. Also subpoena Rove's computer and Blackberry, and the RNC servers. Doesn't the FBI have some expertise in these matters?
thebob.bob wrote on April 12, 2007 7:28 PM:The incompetence and stupidity of the Bush Administration is unparalleled. Why has it taken the so called Liberal Press so long to watchdog these thieves and liars? If official business was conducted on RNC computers..seize them! Let the FBI cyber-forensics group take 'em apart and track down all the conspirators. Just find that one e-mail that says, "let's do this on our RNC accounts so that we don't have to keep the record" and you've got them for conspiracy. Sweeet!
Thrackazog wrote on April 12, 2007 8:03 PM:I can't believe my traitorous senator, Specter, had the cojones to sign his name to that letter. No doubt he'll turn around and pull a double-dog-dare-ya double-cross on the Judiciary Committee when Gonzo hits the stand, just to make it clear to Dickie, Georgie, and Curly Karly that he's still their loyal lapdog.
EasyRider wrote on April 12, 2007 8:40 PM:This is not necessary!
TALK TO THE ECHNICAL SUPPORT PEOPLE!
mbbsdphil wrote on April 12, 2007 9:59 PM:How do we know whether the White House complies with the Presidential Records Act even now?
Anonymous wrote on April 12, 2007 10:20 PM:i agree, echnical support!
cj_n_pa wrote on April 12, 2007 10:56 PM:Is it just me or are they playing the a game of "we lost them, we found them, some of them, not all of them..."?
I think they will continue to dump docs in small batches jus to appear to coorporate but in reality avoid giving up the goods. They hope that the scandal runs out of juice in a week or two even though it looks like Watergate to me.
fatkat wrote on April 12, 2007 10:58 PM:Here are some good news stuff regarding hiding
emails..
http://wood-s.newsvine.com/_news/2007/04/12/660271-time-for-the-it-boys-to-rip-into-the-white-houses-private-server
The quote below is From :http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/4/12/73713/5692
By Last Night in Little Rock, Section Corruption Cases
The FBI's computer forensics teams can recover them. I've got clients in prison who can attest to that.
It does not require the FBI--any competent computer forensics person with access to the server can recover them, or at least most of them. Therefore, Congress should issue a forthwith subpoena duces tecum for the server itself.
Now thats is good!
mbbsdphil wrote on April 12, 2007 11:40 PM:Sheryl Gay Stolberg's account in the NYT's continues the storyline that only "Democrats" have problems with the White House's inability to comply with the Presidential Records Act. The demeanor of her review was a like a Desperate Housewife telling the other girls about the neighbor's new gardener only because there was nothing more interesting to chat about.
Her description of the Records Act was so minimal that she almost said that the need to comply with it was like the need to stay under the speed limit on an empty highway in Wyoming with no turns for three hundred miles.
designrchap wrote on April 13, 2007 12:21 AM:Just who PAYS for Karl Rove, his "shop" and all his office expenses?
Chris Stefan wrote on April 13, 2007 2:39 AM:Personally I'm wondering if anything relevant to the Plame case may have passed through the RNC server and if so was that information turned over to Fitzgerald and the grand jury?
If not then Fitz may have some new Obstruction charges to pursue.
gut wrote on April 13, 2007 4:14 AM:What did the president know and when did he know it?
RobW wrote on April 13, 2007 6:29 AM:We would also like to know how and when the White House first learned of the problem with private e-mail account usage
That sounds like a question for R. Robert Acosta. Why?
R. Robert Acosta was Bush's appointee to AAG Civil Rights Division, the first and most heavily politicized branch of Justice; he helped put them over in 2004. His first act there? Approval of Texas redistricting in 2003. He then resigned there and was appointed interim US Attorney for Southern Florida in June 2005.
http://january6th.org/acosta.html
So, what's Mr. Acosta's first big case? Jack Abramoff. For that investigation, he HAD to have had access to both White House and RNC files. Right around this time, the RNC starts a special archive for Rove's email. Connection?
(code=boat, as in "we're going to need a bigger...")
Michael C wrote on April 13, 2007 7:50 AM:Isn't it time the FBI visited the RNC IT rooms and back up services, collect WH & ex-staff laptops (ie Harriet Mier;s, Andrew Card's etc), computers, Blackberry's etc to seal & or copy the hard drives and tapes etc to preserve evidence?
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