{"id":1133,"date":"2007-04-12T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/12\/1133\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T01:25:21","slug":"1133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/12\/1133\/","title":{"rendered":"the hour is at hand…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Countless White House E-Mails Deleted<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted — lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional subpoenas — due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than six years, the White House acknowledged yesterday.<\/p>\n

The leading culprit appears to be President Bush’s enormously influential political adviser Karl Rove, who reportedly used his Republican National Committee-provided Blackberry and e-mail accounts for most of his electronic communication.<\/p>\n

Until 2004, all e-mail on RNC accounts was routinely deleted after 30 days. Since 2004, White House staffers using those accounts have been able to save their e-mail indefinitely — but have also been able to delete whatever they felt like deleting. By comparison, the White House e-mail system preserves absolutely everything forever, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.<\/p>\n

The White House yesterday said it has no idea how many e-mails have been lost.<\/p>\n

… when I asked Stanzel to read out loud the White House e-mail policy, it seemed clear enough to me: "Federal law requires the preservation of electronic communications sent or received by White House staff<\/strong>," says the handbook that all staffers are given and expected to read and comply with.<\/div>\n

"As a result, personnel working on behalf of the EOP [Executive Office of the President] are expected to only use government-provided e-mail services for all official communication<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

The handbook further explains: "The official EOP e-mail system is designed to automatically comply with records management requirements<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

And if that wasn’t clear enough, the handbook notes — as was the case in the Clinton administration — that "commercial or free e-mail sites and chat rooms are blocked from the EOP network to help staff members ensure compliance and to prevent the circumvention of the records management requirements<\/strong>."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
With the Valerie Plame outing, we political junkies were in the position of not knowing what really happened. Even the full-timers like emptywheel and the Firedoglake people were constantly in the position of speculating and guesstimating. In addition, what was done was a plenty bad thing but from the start, it was questionable if it were a "crime." And there was a Republican Congress filled with bleating sheep.<\/div>\n

With the email story<\/strong> and<\/u> the attorney firings<\/strong>, we know<\/u> what they’ve done, we have a good idea what they’re doing now,  and there’s a clear law<\/u> and procedure for following that law. The ball is in our court to make this one stick ["Our" means the Senate, the House, the Democrats, the Progressives, the bloggers, the Media, and everyone else who loves this country].<\/p>\n

If we’re going to cure cancer, we have to follow the rules: early detection, aggressive therapy, high levels of vigilance. If there is going to be an "it" in this story [a Watergate "it"], this is "it." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Countless White House E-Mails Deleted Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted — lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional subpoenas — due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than six years, the White House acknowledged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}