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Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day
theodp writes "Using Yahoo's free e-mail service to conduct government business was good enough for Sarah Palin. And now the Washington Times reports that Obama staffers turned to Gmail on Inauguration Day to conduct their business. Those wishing to contact members of the incoming Obama administration were instructed to contact staffers at wh.LASTNAME@gmail.com until official White House e-mail addresses became available."
So, someone presents a rational argument, and it's mocked because they're defending Palin? Nice. Maybe you think his facts are BS. That's fair. Attack his facts, provide a reputable source of evidence that things are not as he claims they are.
If things are as he says they are (and I have no idea if that's the case), his statement is very reasonable. If you refuse to counter his statement with fact, then you're just spouting partisan drivel.
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Bush's people were VERY busy making sure nothing that wasn't supposed to be there would be hanging around for the Obama people to come across.
I bet Cheney himself had a staff of twelve running shredders continuously for the last week...
But there's always something that gets missed. If even a quarter of the rumors and accusations that have flooded around over the last few years are true, I'm sure a few skeletons will be discovered in the darker closets of the white house in the next 4-10 months.
I find the very act of spending your last minutes anywhere trying to do a thorough job of "burying the evidence" etc to be a cowardly, shameless act. For the office of the presidency, it takes it to an all new low. I would personally like to see some new legislation put in place that would put some teeth into the Presidential Records Act that would make such "last minute cleanup" in the white house unarguably illegal.
The office of the President of the United States should be 100% transparent. That person is our representative to the world, and there is simply no excuse for this behavior.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
The interesting thing about this story is people's reaction. A lot of comments about Sarah Palin's use of Yahoo email - "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email were pretty critical. A lot of comments about this story offer up excuses.