Comments on: Rove/RNC Email Controversy Deepens

By: Jim Green

Jim Green — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:28:56 +0000

George was not much of a student, or soldier, or businessman of a businessman, and clearly has not been much of a president….,no leadership, relies stickly on the lackies around him, he has no historic compass of any kind to guide him.

Given his past, how can his presidency surprise anyone?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:54:26 +0000

Where have we heard of this before from the GOP? Hmm, let see, Watergate ring a bell? Same thing different technology? Hmm, de-ja-vue! Wonder if one or two of those e-mails were to the President Nixon; oops, my bad, President Bush.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:32:44 +0000

Information about the missing e-mails can be found here:

http://2004.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp

I’m thinking Waxman is attempting to have someone come forward on their own merit before he begins to issue the subpoenas.

By: wj

wj — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:09:47 +0000

If a substantial number of the e-mails sent on their RNC accounts went to other government officials, shouldn’t it be possible to track them down there? (Or have the various government departments been deleting lots of e-mails — including from their back-ups?) A lot harder than if they were done legally, of course, but it should be possible. And probably long before all of them were tracked down, I suspect that a pattern would emerge.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:40:18 +0000

Why don’t they get the emails from the other side?

Diebold
Ken Blackwell
Katheryn Harris
those in charge of national security on September 10th 2001 etc.

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By: Jim S

Jim S — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:29:11 +0000

I think the why of it is quite obvious. The faint hope was deniability of the destruction of official documents since it would be RNC accounts, not White House accounts. We can only hope that the attempted obfuscation fails.

By: gerryf

gerryf — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:59:05 +0000

Surely you jest…why isn’t what guy fired?

Rove? Gonzales? Bush? Firing someone requires accountability and this administration practices non-accountability in every facet of its governing.

I’m still struggling with the idea that these people were hired (elected) in the first place.