Reply #13: The White House has acknowledged ... e-mail traffic may wrongly have been deleted [View All]

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Archive: Rove in new controversy over e-mails
Steve Holland, Reuters
Published: Monday, August 13, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=ab1ca1fd-112c-4add-b5c8-d3ce7d4638f1


The White House revealed this week Mr. Rove and 21 other White House officials have for years kept e-mail accounts through the RNC to conduct political business without violating the Hatch Act, which forbids government employees from using government property like handheld computer devices for partisan activities.

Democrats want to know whether Mr. Rove and the others conducted government business on the party's e-mail accounts as well to get around record-keeping requirements under the Presidential Records Act and avoid leaving a paper trail. .....

The White House has acknowledged that Mr. Rove and others at times conducted official business on RNC accounts and that some of this e-mail traffic may wrongly have been deleted, including some related to the firing of the U.S. prosecutors. ....

"We've seen no basis to conclude that anyone intentionally or improperly used the RNC e-mail," Ms. Perino said. ...