Republicans Lie About Losing Email To Protect Gonzalez
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on April 13th, 2007 4:10 am by HL
Next they will be saying the dog ate them. Aren’t you glad the grownups are back in power?
Rove E-Mail Sought by Congress May Be Missing
Washington Post
Excerpt:
A lawyer for the Republican National Committee told congressional staff members yesterday that the RNC is missing at least four years’ worth of e-mail from White House senior adviser Karl Rove that is being sought as part of investigations into the Bush administration, according to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
GOP officials took issue with Rep. Henry Waxman’s account of the briefing and said they still hope to find the e-mail as they conduct forensic work on their computer equipment. But they acknowledged that they took action to prevent Rove — and Rove alone among the two dozen or so White House officials with RNC accounts — from deleting his e-mails from the RNC server. Waxman (D-Calif.) said he was told the RNC made that move in 2005.
In a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Waxman said the RNC lawyer, Rob Kelner, also raised the possibility that Rove had personally deleted the missing e-mails, all dating back to before 2005.
Leahy says Bush aides lied about e-mails
AP
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON – President Bush’s aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
“They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!” Leahy shouted from the Senate floor.
“You can’t erase e-mails, not today. They’ve gone through too many servers,” said Leahy, D-Vt. “Those e-mails are there, they just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.”
Archiving old e-mail a compliance and legal issue
Globe & Mail
Excerpt:
Spoliation: it’s an ugly piece of legal jargon. But if you haven’t put in place an e-mail archiving policy, you may learn its meaning, and it won’t be pleasant.
Samsung Electronics found that out a couple of years ago when its failure to produce requested e-mails in a legal dispute with Ottawa’s Mosaid Technologies Inc. led a New Jersey judge to conclude the tech giant had engaged in e-mail spoliation (or destruction) to prevent the messages’ contents from hurting its case.
“The fact that no technical e-mails were preserved . . . demonstrates, at the least, extremely reckless behaviour,” the judge ruled. (Samsung ended up settling the case.) Others, from Philip Morris to Morgan Stanley to a growing number of Canadian firms, have similarly learned that arguing e-mails couldn’t be located in time or were automatically deleted by the server gets no more credence today than claiming the dog ate them.
April 17th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Like the Democrats haven’t lied about losing files before. How about the FBI files that came up missing and no one knew where they were. And than they just happen to show up in the Clinton’s area.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:38 am
So basically what Bill is saying is that yes they lied, but its okay. Nice.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
It’s alright for the Democrats to lie and no one complains about it but let a Republican do it and they start crying like babys.
OH and anon I never said it was alright. You did.