What Now, the White House has admitted further illegalities?

Question

I read the usual Rush talking heads defending Rove's illegal deletion of e-mails today.

Even the White House is now showing these Lemmings for what they are.. Sheep without Fleece.

Heart An… NOW 6

Kelly B.... Thanks. I have just given up on these Lemmings. It is frankly beyond comment, their stupidity.... Now when you give them proof that they require they remove their answers... Just read my last few questions.

Answer 1

and you are surprised?
I am not, but now they have been caught up in the web of lies ( oh what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to deceive)
There mere fact that 75 aides including Karl Rove used the RNC server to conduct White House business is a violation of the Presidential Records Act as well as the Hatch Act, will help to sink them even further.
The Presidential Records Act of 1978 changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public. The PRA established a new statutory structure under which Presidents must manage their records. Presidential records are defined as:
Documentary materials, or an reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, his immediate staff, or a unit or individual or the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have and effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President [44 U.S.C. ß 2201(2)].

These records can be in a variety of media, including paper, audiovisual, and electronic.

The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity. Named after Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, the law was officially known as An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities.

Answer 2

To help the people that always need proof. Hatch act, Presidential Records act. Two laws that if proven guilty they violated. How about this proof mongers, go read any article relating to the subject instead of just assuming there are no laws pertaining to this subject.

Well when the Reps had power of congress, do you think they would actually blow the whistle on something as damaging as this? Not to say the dems wouldn't do the same thing for a dem administration, but they aren't the ones in question right now are they?

Answer 3

"answerer" John, the Sandy Berger thing has nothing to do with this.

From the NY Times,

"The committee appears to have changed its e-mail retention policies twice, possibly in response to the investigation by a special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, into the leak of the name of a C.I.A. officer. When that inquiry began, in early 2004, the committee’s practice was to purge all e-mail from its servers after 30 days.

But in August of that year, according to the Republican official, the committee decided that e-mail sent by White House officials would be kept on the server. Still, the change did not prevent White House officials from manually deleting their e-mail, and some, including Mr. Rove, apparently did. So in 2005, the committee took steps to prevent Mr. Rove from doing so.

“Mr. Kelner did not provide many details about why this special policy was adopted for Mr. Rove,” Mr. Waxman wrote. “But he did indicate that one factor was the presence of investigative or discovery requests or other legal concerns.”

Anyone, even conservatives, can surely see that something is rotten in Denmark about Karl Rove systematically deleting all his emails and the RNC later making a special policy to prevent him from doing it.

Answer 4

Have you ever tried to get rid of an e-mail? It isn't easy. Like the guy in the commercial who can't find China on the map so he "trips" and tears it down, then reaches up to tear off the last bit.

I hope the cons never realize that if they just stop covering everything up, then the truth will set them free. . .

Or imprison them.

Answer 5

Yeah John it was all Humanist's fault!!!

Why didn't the republicans of the day investigate it?
They sure had enough time and money to investigate Clinton for 2 years!!

How anyone can justify and support these criminals for party's sake is beyond me!

Sad for the once great U.S.A!!!

EDIT: Heart and Troll----it's called Willful destruction of evidence! And it's illegal!

Answer 6

How about the emails of every democrat accused of crimes in the past 20 years? How about the emails between Sandy burg(L)er and Clinton? Is somebody at the white house accused of destroying documents from the national archive in order to aid in Clintons "legacy?"

Answer 7

Interesting....deleting of emails is now illegal.

Got a title and section of US Code to validate that charge?

Addition: I wear as a badge of honor the 5 lib thumbs down...this validates the hypocrisy charge against libs who now want to make it a crime, ex post facto, to delete an email that they might use for political gain...never mind that those who place the thumbs down have not included in *THEIR* answer the title and section of the US code that might be justification for a subpoena of the emails.

Perhaps Kelly B can say why the emails are *EVIDENCE*, when there is no charge or investigation requiring their retention. C'mon Kelly...are we a nation of laws...or not?

Answer 8

Another White House scandal!!!!!!!
W.T.F. Republicans start explaining yourselves.....or are you above the law??????

I wish the "dog" would eat them!!!!!

Answer 9

they should follow the Presidents lead and notuse it at all.Leftist invented email, they can use it to ruin political adversaries.

Answer 10

I remember a guy Sandy Burglar, taking CLASSIFIED national archive documents and you just shrugged your shoulders

Now "emails" that are just that are an issue