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GOP Hires Data Experts to Save White House E-mails
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Stung by the revelation that White House aides for years have sent -- and deleted -- e-mails about official government business using accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee (RNC), the organization has hired a top-flight data recovery firm to preserve what correspondence has not already been lost.
The RNC "has...been working diligently to identify and preserve all potentially relevant data that may exist," a lawyer for the group wrote Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chair of a powerful committee who has demanded access to the e-mails. "These efforts include retaining a leading, nationally known computer forensics firm, Stroz Friedberg, LLC," states the letter, written by Robert K. Kelner of the Covington and Burling law firm.
Click Here to Read the Letter to Chairman Waxman.
The practice of sending (and deleting) official correspondence via private e-mail accounts may have run afoul of several laws, including one which prohibits the destruction of presidential records.
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Based in New York, Stroz Friedberg is led by a former veteran FBI cyber-investigator and a one-time federal prosecutor well-versed in technology issues.
Experts from the forensics firm have "imaged several RNC-owned computers and Blackberries that are currently being used by White House employees," the April 25 letter states. The letter identifies 37 White House employees who had used RNC-owned e-mail addresses, noting the group had gathered roughly 24 gigabytes of e-mail data belonging to those individuals.
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White House aides also may have conducted official government business with private e-mail accounts assigned to them by the Bush-Cheney 2004 re-election campaign, according to news reports. A White House spokesman told ABC News Wednesday that similar precautions have been taken with computer servers and equipment belonging to the former campaign.
April 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)
A BBC reporter has 500 of them he found with a little computer expertise but I heard the guy is floating in the THAMES today...tough break
Posted by: frodaddy | Apr 26, 2007 5:08:06 PM
frodaddy... One his back or on his stomach?
Posted by: justwondering | Apr 27, 2007 12:41:04 PM
How can anyone believe that the White House violation of Federal laws regarding the destruction of presidential records was NOT done to insure that other laws could be broken with impugnity?
Posted by: Greg | Apr 27, 2007 11:25:31 PM
Deceit is designed to disguise the truth and is customarily used to defend recognizable violations of trust, bad behavior, or in some cases broken laws. Take your pick!
SacrAmerican
Posted by: SacrAmerican | Apr 28, 2007 12:28:48 AM
Who Wouldn't've thunk it? Doesn't sound like much of a stretch for an obstruction case, does it? Like I've said before, this goes to show how certain the Bushies were of a "Permanent Republican Majority!"
Posted by: Brick Sykes | Apr 28, 2007 12:36:42 AM
Perhaps the white house website should have a ticker at the bottom, detailing the "scandal of the week". This is getting nuts, when does the Bush Regime bother to follow the law? It can't even get its Attorney General to follow federal law, talk about setting low benchmarks for performance.
Posted by: Steve Savage | Apr 28, 2007 3:36:37 AM
It's sad to see how the Bush Administration is still giving the American people and the world the middle finger. Time after time he has practiced illegal activities only to get away. What does an administration have to do to be investigated and impeached? I hope the e-mails are found and that they can expose the truth. My fellow Americans wake up! Why did you all vote for Bush twice?
Posted by: Gabriel Angelino | Apr 28, 2007 8:10:55 PM
I hope the DC Madam saved all her emails. I hope she wins her case. What hipocrisy. An Aids czar who gets millions for a useless drug for Africans-AZT for his old phrama. Then calls the Madam. These people have to be tossed out of office, and the Madam might help do it, red lipstick and all. Our new Heidi Fleiss. May God forgive them;
Posted by: Franklin | Apr 30, 2007 10:18:06 AM
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