cliffs:
1. Rove and others have been using a www.gwb43.com email account for the majority of their official white house communications.
2. Under the Presidential Records Act this is illegal. Presidential communications are required to be archived and kept under this act, which was created following Nixon's presidency.
3. The House committee on oversight requested the emails on the RNC server for use in their investigation of the ongoing GSA scandal, which concerns an illegal violation of the Hatch Act.
4. White House says whoops we deleted them our bad.
I don't know what to think of Leahy in general but here are some comments of his comparing this to the Nixon tapes.
Having worked in IT for a while and having been interested in computers since before puberty I can tell you with absolute certainty that those emails are recoverable. I've seen data retrieved off hard drives with bullet holes in them, there is no way those are gone. They are flat out lying
1. Rove and others have been using a www.gwb43.com email account for the majority of their official white house communications.
2. Under the Presidential Records Act this is illegal. Presidential communications are required to be archived and kept under this act, which was created following Nixon's presidency.
3. The House committee on oversight requested the emails on the RNC server for use in their investigation of the ongoing GSA scandal, which concerns an illegal violation of the Hatch Act.
4. White House says whoops we deleted them our bad.
I don't know what to think of Leahy in general but here are some comments of his comparing this to the Nixon tapes.
Having worked in IT for a while and having been interested in computers since before puberty I can tell you with absolute certainty that those emails are recoverable. I've seen data retrieved off hard drives with bullet holes in them, there is no way those are gone. They are flat out lying