Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted

kidcharles writes "The Washington Post reports that in the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Congress into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by the Department of Justice, numerous White House e-mails have been lost. Among them are communications from presidential adviser Karl Rove. Parallels are being drawn with the infamous '18 minutes' missing from the Nixon Watergate tapes. Also at issue is the use of Republican National Committee e-mail domains (such as gwb43.com and georgewbush.com) rather than the official White House domain. This is a violation of the Presidential Records Act."

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Re:What a total outrage!!!!

[Overly Critical Guy]

(Typical wingerdom on display here folks... draw a flawed analogy to something "the democrats" did, add a pithy response, and voila! Sleazy republicans, absolved of guilt. Don't buy into it.)

Yes, it's flawed wingerdom to point out the hypocrisy of Democrats. Why, it was totally cool when Clinton covered up all the shit he did, pardoned friends of his who contributed to the Library, etc. When there's a Republican sending salacious messages to a paige, Democrats were right to use that against ALL Republicans only to hold a memorial for Gary Studds, an openly gay Democrat who ACTUALLY DID sleep with an underage paige. And it's totally awesome when the media doesn't call them on the double standard!

Fuck it, let's just hate Bush all the time and accuse everyone of being "wingers" when they point out the hypocrisy. After all, covering up documents when your administration is being investigated by the 9/11 commission is totally acceptable, but firing a bunch of lawyers is not--EVEN THOUGH CLINTON DID THE SAME DAMN THING IN THE EARLY 90s.

Re:What a total outrage!!!!

[SL Baur]

It's not like Clinton did the same thing in the 90s...oh, wait...). None of this is any different than the Clinton administration. The first thing Clinton did when taking office was fire all the attorneys in the DOJ and replace them. There was also a nearly identical scandal over lost email. Same corruption, different people.

If there is to be any real change, people are going to have to stop voting for both Democrats and Republicans.