Karl Rove’s lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush’s chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law.
The issue arose because the White House and Republican National Committee have said they may have lost e-mails from Rove and other administration officials. Democratically chaired congressional committees want those e-mails for their probe of the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
"His understanding starting very, very early in the administration was that those e-mails were being archived," Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, said.
The prosecutor probing the Valerie Plame spy case saw and copied all of Rove’s e-mails from his various accounts after searching Rove’s laptop, his home computer, and the handheld computer devices he used for both the White House and Republican National Committee, Luskin said.
The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, subpoenaed the e-mails from the White House, the RNC and Bush’s re-election campaign, he added.
"There’s never been any suggestion that Fitzgerald had anything less than a complete record," Luskin said.
Any e-mails Rove deleted were the type of routine deletions people make to keep their inboxes orderly, Luskin said. He said Rove had no idea the e-mails were being deleted from the server, a central computer that managed the e-mail.
On Thursday, one Democratic committee chairman said his understanding was that the RNC believed Rove might have been deleting his e-mails and in 2005 took action to preserve them in accordance with the law and pending legal action.
The mystery of the missing e-mails is just one part of a furor over the firings of eight federal prosecutors that has threatened Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ job and thrown his Justice Department into turmoil.
I suggest prosecuting him for what he did, not worrying about what he says. What he says is convenient, self serving, evasive at best, and hardly compatible with everything else we know about his life in the shadows. I see no reason to bother with the White House in these investigations of his activities. Supoena him directly. If Rove wants to go to court, go to court.
Enough of his bullshit already…
It always baffles me when smart people play dumb. I know that there is a certain level of knowledge that people might have, but smart people even without formal knowledge can come to smart, moral, and logical conclusions. So, what we are supposed to believe time and time again with this Administration is that the smart people can’t come to logical moral decisions. Meaning that either a) they really aren’t that smart and shouldn’t be in charge of a country or b) that they are smart and just have chosen to not make moral, logical choices and should therefore not be in charge of running a country. I mean you can’t be smart and dumb at the same time. You just can’t pick and choose your intelligence level as it fits the situation. That’s of pile of bullshit to think that tactic will work. These are smart guys who are just getting caught at their immoral actions and trying to play dumb to wriggle out of it. It’s sickening.
We can’t let them get away with anymore lies. What can we do to help get them prosecuted, convicted and jailed for all their immoral acts? We just watched a seasoned radio and tv host get fired for saying some horrible thing about a college basketball team. I’m not saying that he shouldn’t be punished and apologize to the ladies which he did, but where is the outrage about lying us into war and outting a covert agent and treating our wounded veterans like garbage and ignoring the victims of Katrina like than weren’t human beings?When will there be outrage about all of this and more. Spying on Americans, torturing prisoners, I could go on and on. I want people to do what they did to Imus and do it to Bush and his bunch of lying criminals in the white house. Enough of the American Idol and Anne Nichol and her baby’s father lets get going for the real news that should matter to every American today.
This is the same sort op BS and attempted cover ups that this administration has done from the beginning. Now we see a grand show of buck passing, finger pointing to some one else at fault . No doubt he will use some aid as his scape goat when he can’t dodge the inevitable. This Prsident has surrmassed a history of lies and shady dealings second only to the Nixon administration. I say let him burn and get his due reward for his crap and slinging.
Impeach Imepach Impeach. They are like Enron “the smartest guys in the room.” Noone but them have any sense, brain matter, or smarts. When I think of Bush wanting to make one country of Canada, USA, and Mexico, it sickens me. The Borders arent patrolled for no reason. Then those two borders patrol were prosecuted for a reason. To tell the other boder patrols let the illegals in USA or you too will be prosecuted. The rich wants the illegal to dummy donw the salaries, the rich want to exploit the illegals as well. We need to boycott every comapany’s products who employs illegals, boycott the companies who have outsourced the jobs to China who are trying to poison America with Bush’s help. I just hope the Democrats get some balls and do what needs to be done sonner rather than later. Although with the purge of the USA Rove stacked the courts with REoublicans judges just in cast they got caught. Then Take a look at the Suprime Court, its stacked with Rrepublicans as well. We need to impleach those hidges if they let these slimeballs off the hook. By the way folks you should see what wealth Rove has on his adverser to the president’s salary. Do a wikinpedia on Rove and his wife and follow the ose businesses names.
Yes. It really does defy imagination. I love the Imus analogy. Bad boy? Go away now…