It’s Time For an Independent Prosecutor to Find Outsourced Evidence
The White House is not going to turn over important documents in the US Attorney scandal because. . . “it was an accident.” Yeah, they allowed staffers, including Karl Rove, to use email addresses that were not official, they concede there may be documents related to to the US Attorney firings in those emails, [...]
The White House is not going to turn over important documents in the US Attorney scandal because. . . “it was an accident.” Yeah, they allowed staffers, including Karl Rove, to use email addresses that were not official, they concede there may be documents related to to the US Attorney firings in those emails, but that they may have been “inadvertently” deleted.
Some White House staff wrote e-mail messages about official business on Republican Party accounts, and some may have been wrongly deleted, the administration said Wednesday in a disclosure tied to the inquiry into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
The White House said it could not rule out the possibility that some official e-mails relating to the firings had been deleted and are lost.
Democrats in Congress have been seeking copies of e-mails from the Republican National Committee as part of an investigation into whether the firing of the prosecutors last year was politically motivated.
“Some official e-mails have potentially been lost and that is a mistake the White House is aggressively working to correct,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters.
Asked whether some of the lost e-mails could be related to the firings of the U.S. attorneys last year, Stanzel said: “That can’t be ruled out.”
I am reminded of the little boy, standing by his mother’s broken lamp. He looks up innocently and says the cat did it. But this is far more insidious than that. What appears to have happeneed is that the White House used RNC email addresses in order to communicate about sensitive topics. They knew these emails would not be as easy to subpoena, because nobody knew of the email addresses. Of course, the emails were deleted monthly. . . gee, isn’t that convenient.
Let’s make it clearer. In Iraq the Bush Administration outsourced torture to Blackwater. It therefore enabled them to use methods of interrogation they dearly wished to use to fight the War on Terror, and it allowed them to make a mockery of the Geneva Conventions. Outsourcing works for these criminals. Though Blackwater has so fucked up the job that we found out about the torture.
So the Bush White House outsourced their communications, and used those outsourced communications when they wanted to break the law. So when they wanted to fire US Attorneys for not making politically motivated prosecutions, they used the RNC email addresses, whose emails have been conveniently deleted. Yeah, the RNC fucked up this job like Blackwater did, but that may have been a planned fuck-up.
What’s unsaid here? We’re not seeing any of those documents related to the other US Attorneys who didn’t get fired. On the one hand, we know some got fired because they were prosecuting Republicans. So, I’m going to ask it straight out — how many of those US Attorneys who kept their jobs did so because they made a bargain to not investigate Republicans, or to otherwise follow political instructions in carrying out their jobs?
Duhh, all of them
i’m with ron - i think it’s safe to assume that all the attorney not on the list to be fired are indeed doing bushco’s bidding.
one question though - can’t all the harddrives be subpoenaed and combed over for traces of the emails in question? not that they’ll actually do that, but theoretically? i don’t know about the techie stuff so much, but i’m assuming since no one has mentioned it, that the same thing can’t be done with the server, maybe stuff is truly erased from there?
in any case, i’m thinking the unredacted emails the dems are going after now are gonna be damning enough. and isn’t what the thugs did with the emails flat out illegal and prosecutable anyway?
somegirl: yes they certainly can be subpoenaed, and can be traced/ reconstructed. there’s some discussion on the topic at kos.
I might add that, at some point, the participants in the discussion made a deliberate choice to use a system where they knew their emails would be deleted. That’s when they conspired to obstruct justice.
It ain’t just the missing emails.
I’m willing to bet large sums of cash that there’s some type of IM system in the White House computer systems (Lotus Notes Sametime, or similar) that no one is even thinking about yet.
And, when Waxman first sent the letter out to the RNC to preserve emails for all of its domains, did anyone really think, for one moment, that the emails were still there?? As soon as the gwb43.com issue showed up on the radar screen, and long before Waxman’s letter, someone was doing some scrubbing. I guarantee it.