Monday, June 18, 2007

The missing emails

Karl Rove used his RNC email account (and now the emails are missing, surprise) to do White House business, which is a violation of the Presidential Records Act. Democrats want to know if he was trying to hide his involvement in the Justice Dept's firing of U.S. attorneys, and perhaps hide a lot of other things.


But Tony Snow says, no,the reason for the RNC accounts was so that White House staffers would could actually follow the law.

Republican officials scoffed at the Democrats' claim. White House press secretary Tony Snow declined to respond in detail but said the purpose of the RNC accounts was to make sure officials did not violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits the use of official government resources for partisan political activities.


What's so laughable about that is the fact that this administration, including Rove, appears to have had no problem having its officials violate the Hatch Act before.