{"id":1136,"date":"2007-04-13T14:12:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/13\/the-innocent-dumb-ass-defense\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T19:15:32","slug":"the-innocent-dumb-ass-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/13\/the-innocent-dumb-ass-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"the innocent dumb-ass defense…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
Lawyer: Rove didn’t mean to delete email<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

"His understanding starting very, very early in the administration was that those e-mails were being archived," Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, subpoenaed the e-mails from the White House, the RNC and Bush’s re-election campaign, he added.<\/p>\n

"There’s never been any suggestion that Fitzgerald had anything less than a complete record," Luskin said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
We are asked to believe, in this version of the Karl Rove defense strategy, that Karl Rove, the central figure in the political arm of the Republican Party, just didn’t know that deleting his emails removed them from the server. I expect he also just didn’t know that he was supposed to use his EOP email account for official business instead of the RNC accounts. Sort of like he didn’t know Valerie Plame was an undercover C.I.A. Agent. Sort of like he didn’t recall that he’d talked to Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine and confirmed Plame’s identity. Sort of like when he "went through his emails" and found the one to Hadley that reminded him of talking to Cooper, he didn’t become familiar with his email system in the process. Bush’s Brain developes dumb-assed-ness at very convenient moments in his history – otherwise, he is sharp as a tack. Just because he looks dumb doesn’t mean he is dumb.<\/div>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Enough of his bullshit already…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawyer: Rove didn’t mean to delete email 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 […]<\/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-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}