Surprise: "The RNC has preserved 140,216 e-mails sent or received by Karl Rove"
OMG, now that will be a Doc Dump! Are we having fun yet?? When do we get to read them?
In addition to the Presidential Record Act, how many Hatch Act violations will there be, 75,000?
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Administration Oversight, White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts
The Use of RNC E-Mail Accounts by White House Officials
Monday, June 18, 2007
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1362The Oversight Committee has been investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act by using e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Cheney ‘04 campaign for official White House communications. This interim staff report provides a summary of the evidence the Committee has received to date, along with recommendations for next steps in the investigation.
The information the Committee has received in the investigation reveals:
... White House officials given RNC e-mail accounts ... at least 88 ... RNC e-mail accounts include Karl Rove ... Andrew Card ... Ken Mehlman...
...White House officials made extensive use of their RNC e-mail accounts. The RNC has preserved 140,216 e-mails sent or received by Karl Rove. Over half of these e-mails (75,374) were sent to or received from individuals using official “.gov” e-mail accounts ... Sara Taylor (66,018 e-mails) ... Scott Jennings (35,198 e-mails). These e-mail accounts were used by White House officials for official purposes ...
... There has been extensive destruction of the e-mails of White House officials ... RNC has preserved no e-mails for 51 officials ... there are major gaps in the e-mail records of the 37 White House officials for whom the RNC did preserve e-mails ... only 130 e-mails sent to Mr. Rove during President Bush’s first term and no e-mails sent by Mr. Rove prior to November 2003 ...
... evidence that the Office of White House Counsel under Alberto Gonzales may have known ... but took no action to preserve these presidential records ...
... it is not possible to determine precisely how many presidential records may have been destroyed by the RNC ...
... the records of federal agencies should be examined to assess whether they may contain some of the White House e-mails that have been destroyed by the RNC. The Committee has already written to 25 federal agencies ... they may have preserved official communications that were destroyed by the RNC.
... the Committee should investigate what former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales knew about the use of political e-mail accounts by White House officials. If Susan Ralston’s testimony to the Committee is accurate, there is evidence that Mr. Gonzales or counsels working in his office knew ...
... the Committee may need to issue compulsory process to obtain the cooperation of the Bush Cheney ’04 campaign ...
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Documents and Links
* Investigation of Possible Violations of the Presidential Records Act -
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070618105243.pdf * Deposition of Susan Ralston -
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070618105351.pdf * Errata Sheet for Deposition of Susan Ralston -
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070618105444.pdfRelated
* Waxman Asks Government Agencies to Preserve E-mails from RNC Accounts -
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1244 * Committee Requests White House E-mails Stored at RNC -
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1247 * Committee Directs RNC to Preserve White House Emails -
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1225======================
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