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."

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Re:Question for any Americans reading Slashdot.

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So the USA is a large country in almost every way you can measure it. Lots of land, lots of people, etc

So I have an honest question for those of you that live in geographically-smaller countries: "Do all regions of your country generally have the same values?"

In the United States, we have this interesting area known as the "South." While most of the Northeast, Mid-West, and Coastal Western States are left-leaning, the South (and the south-west and non-coastal west) has a right-leaning attitude. And lots of people live in these states. And I'm not trying to make a political statement here, but generally speaking, the south has lower salaries, a lower-skilled and less-educated populace, more children per household, more religious tendancies, and a host of other features you could probably guess.

Pretty much, its because of the SOUTH that the current administration was re-elected. Oh, that and the democratic ticket in the last election, John Kerry, wasn't exactly the most likable guy you've ever met.

So thats why we have Bush. Now, impeachment is a huge deal and probably not gonna happen. However, save impeachment, we HAVE DEMANDED A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT. The last American elections in November, the Democrats won both chambers in Congress. So we've done pretty much everything we can do in the last 2 years besides impeaching the president and nuking the South.