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White House E-mail Scandal Widens
Spamicles alerts us to a report just issued (PDF) by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. At least 88 White House officials used Republican National Committee email accounts for government business. The RNC has destroyed at least some of the emails from 51 of those officials. Law requires emails sent by officials to be stored or recorded. There is evidence that White House lawyers and the (current) Attorney General knew of this but did not act to stop it. From the article: "These e-mail accounts were used by White House officials for official purposes, such as communicating with federal agencies about federal appointments and policies... Given the heavy reliance by White House officials on RNC e-mail accounts, the high rank of the White House officials involved, and the large quantity of missing e-mails, the potential violation of the Presidential Records Act may be extensive."
"In other words, given that all the evidence has been deleted, good luck proving it... even if the other side did have enough votes to bring the charges, and we didn't own the court that would adjudicate any case."
- Your Overlords.
Catch-22. It's the best catch there is.
Fish hunting? Isn't that fishing?
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
Praise Jesus!
Thank God Bush restored Dignity and Honor to the White House!
All these Liberals demanding our President stand for American values just simply hate America.
and they hate Jesus, of course!
That's you're fucking answer????
That is you're fucking answer????
Get out of the pool right now!!
This wasn't a betrayal of the public trust by government officials using public resources feed their political games, subverting democracy and intentionally betraying oversight and justice...
It was just a simple case of pro-active privatization of communication channels. It's liberty from the chains of evidence! It's saving the public from expensive prosecutions at no cost to the tax payers!
We're at war people - and dog gambit - it's just plain not patriotic to be demanding accountability of our heroic politicians during a war they went through such pain to start and keep going!
remember how bush came in and was going to "bring integrity back to the whitehouse" and how psyched we all were as republicans? Remember how he had 90% approval after 911 and was totally leading the world and everything? remember how he controlled both houses of congress and put 2 (maybe more) judges on the supreme court and was starting to push back roe and bring in religion and morality in government and the dems had to eat shit and got kicked out of their nicer hill offices and got the shittier old used blackberries? And we republicans were going to reign high in an unbreakable majority for generations and we would eventually put all the athiest, lesbian, liberal, aclu, anti american, intellectual rat bastard scum in their place and turn the culture of america back to god fearing conservative decent people for the next hundreds of years? George W. Bush really really really fucked it all up didn't he?
the parents score shows that it is not safe to criticize the Democrats on slashdot.
Oh well. Been a week or so since I had a -1. Might as well join you.
without two?
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scandal my ass. these people are untouchable. there's no one willing to stand up to them, so they will just keep on doing whatever the hell they want.
there is no scandal here.
Hey -- maintaining a vast global conspiracy takes lots of communication :-)
Yes, I would have to agree. Ru Paul is definitly better than anybody else in the field
And (s)he adequately represents both sides
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Yes, I would have to agree. Ru Paul is definitly better than anybody else in the field
I have to say a RuPaul presidency would be fabulous.
Being by public officials normally subject to the act they should have retained enough of the records to demonstrate that they weren't a subject to the act.
DING DING DING.
So, who wants to pick the winning excuse that will let the "left wing media" ignore this scandal?
-Because the RNC can't afford enough disk to save all of Karl Rove's e-mails.
-Republicans are conservatives, and they were just trying to be conservative with computing resources. Especially what with all the sacrifice the country made during the leadup and first years of the war.
-Computers are complicated.
-Democrats are corrupt too!
-Clinton got a blowjob!!!!!!!!! And LIED about it!
Bush could have a live press conference where he bites the heads off kittens, and nobody would care.
If we let kittens walk our streets with their heads still attached, surely the terrorists have won. By suggesting that kittens should be left unbitten, you are emboldening the enemy, and making America a more dangerous place for our families.
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It's a trap! The pool has AIDS.
Actually, I want to see Hillary Clinton in 2008, so that my grandkids' generation will be hopelessly confused by the mess of presidential names.
1988-1992: Bush, George
1992-2000: Clinton, William
2000-2008: Bush, George
2008-2012: Clinton, Hillary
2012-2016: Bush, Jebediah
Hell, this'll be better than John Adams and John Quincy Adams and Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt! It'll serve 'em right for playin' frisbee golf on my grave, damn whippersnappers!
Sorry, term limits and all prevent that.
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
No, that's "faaabulusssssss". Enunciation, bitch.
No, no sig. Really.
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