Rove Lawyer: E-Mail Deletion Unintentional

Democrats Seek Missing E-Mails While Probing Firings Of Federal Prosecutors

(CBS/AP)  Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored computer system.

The attorney said Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law.

"His understanding starting very, very early in the administration was that those e-mails were being archived," Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said.

The issue arose because the White House and Republican National Committee have said they may have lost e-mails from Rove and other administration officials. Democrat-chaired congressional committees want those e-mails for their probe of the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

CBS News White House Correspondent Peter Maer says that Democrats are hinting at Watergate-like coverups, comparing the missing e-mails to the famous 18-minute gap in a Nixon White House tape.

Aides to President Bush improperly used Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts for official business, the administration acknowledges, and lost an undetermined number of e-mails in the process.

The "mistake," as the White House is calling it, was discovered inadvertently through Congress' ongoing probe of the administration's dismissal of the U.S. attorneys.

In the thousands of pages of documents the Justice Department has given to congressional investigators were e-mails disclosing that at least one White House official used his party-supplied, non-governmental e-mail account to help plan the firings.

New documents released Friday by the Justice Department may shed additional light, but their release prompted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' one-time chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, to postpone a closed-door interview with congressional investigators.

One Justice Department spreadsheet on the qualifications of the sitting federal prosecutors shows that along with prosecution experience, political experience and judicial experience, the U.S. attorneys were judged on whether they were members of the conservative Federalist Society.

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, founded by conservative law students, now claims 35,000 members, including prominent members of the Bush administration, the federal judiciary and Congress.

Among those prosecutors noted for being members: Rachel Paulose, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota whose office suffered a revolt this month when three lawyers resigned their management posts. Paulose earlier had served as a top Justice Department counsel and special assistant to Gonzales.

One of the eight prosecutors who were fired, Kevin Ryan of San Francisco, also was a member of the conservative group, according to the document.

The missing e-mails posed some of the weightiest questions of a sprawling political and legal conflict between the Bush administration and Democrats in Congress.

Democrats are questioning whether any White House officials purposely sent e-mails about official business on the RNC server — then deleted them, in violation of the law — to avoid scrutiny.

White House officials said the administration is making an aggressive effort to recover anything that was lost. "We have no indications that there was improper intent when using these RNC e-mails," spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

Luskin said Rove didn't know that deleting e-mails from his RNC in-box also deleted them from the RNC's server. That system was changed in 2005.

Such a configuration is uncommon and makes recovering e-mails "immeasurably harder," said retired FBI computer crimes specialist Joseph Dooley.

"It happens on occasion but usually you're not deleting things off the server," Dooley said. "That's highly unusual."

[terrapin78]

Let's get Rove up to Capitol Hill and let him explain UNDER OATH, what went on. What a SLEEZE BALL CHICKENHAWK!!!!!

[draugwolf]

i prefer getting my lies from Snow job ...not this whiny , irritating *** spokeswoman...shes a real mouthbreather ..if he croaks are we stuck with her ?

[mcvet]

Oh I love it!! Anyone who thinks, even for a minute, that Rove didn't KNOW and infact wasn't behind, the system where e-mails were deleated is just kidding themselves. He's a real slime ball and needs to spend so quality time with Big Bubba, that's for sure.

[kstrisha]

Quote:

Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored computer system.

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Well of course, what do you expect him to say--the truth? "Karl Rove deleted as much evidence as possible as quickly as he and his staff possibly could..."

[xfredmenzies]

Malice or incompetence, pick one. But at this point I don't think anybody will believe this was "a mistake".

[fascistusa]

Liar. Liar. Fascist on FIRE.

[inventagod2]

It must suck being a true Republican nowdays.

With these PNAC NeoCon extremist fascists passing themselves off as conservatives, no Republican will be president for forty more years. Give me a break with this "Mistakes" BS...
Congressional aides do not resign over little mistakes.

[dallison7]

PIGLET IS LYING!!!

[gkc99]

Notice to Pelosi and Clinton: In impeachment proceedings, you can compel these clowns to testify under oath! Hint hint.

I'm sure "Bush's Brain" found Microsoft Outlook just too, too confusing, and he just accidentally deleted all those emails, just like Rosemary Woods must have accidently pressed the "erase" button on that taperecorder she was running for Tricky Dicky.

Even the crooks of Bonzo Bushit's administration are like the Keystone cops. And Americans are so dumb, and so lazy, that they just suck this stuff up. But the Bushit administration is good Christians, and they hate ***, so everything they do must be OK! Dumbfuk, ignorant Americans are just too busy hearing about Anna Nicole smith and watching American Idol to worry about the fascist traitor thieves who are stealing our country! Sad.

[inventagod2]

"OOPS - deleted all the emails again! Pass the pork rinds! Ya gonna finish that?" - Rove

[indierockcafe]

Here are is one of the actual emails (declassified) in PDF that Rove did not get to delete:

http://www.monkeytypesthebible.com/2007/03/emails-suggest-karl-rove-knew-of.html

[aaabee-2009]

PIGLET IS LYING!!! Posted by dallison7 at 04:12 PM : Apr 13, 2007


Bwahahahahahahahaha......wipes tears of laughter from eyes.

That was a good one. Thanks, dallison.

[terrapin78]

LIARS @ 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW WASH, DC.

Filled to the brim with sleazy occupants. Let's clean house now.

Impeach the Bush Administration.

[realpatriot1]

Since "deleted" e-mails can be recovered(and these ultimately will be), it should be interesting to see when these were "accidentally" deleted. Yesterday maybe?

[aaabee-2009]

These guys get a lot of help from their cronies don't they?

I guess it pays to ladle out the government contracts, the pork, the high-paying jobs, the best positions, and invite them to all your insider parties. Then they OWE you.

[nativewoman]

E-Mail Deletion Unintentional

Hoo boy! Good one! I haven't laughed like that in a LONG time!

Thanks for the comedy routine!

[me4prezz]

The "mistake," as the White House is calling it, was discovered inadvertently through Congress' ongoing probe of the administration's dismissal of the U.S. attorneys.

Sucks to be them huh? That their own political scheming backfired. What is the saying? You are never doing something wrong until you are caught? Well then....BUSTED!

Separately, Perino said millions of White House e-mails could have been accidentally lost when staffers' accounts were converted over to Microsoft Outlook from Lotus Notes during the first couple of years of the administration.

"I wouldn't rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost," the spokeswoman said.

Bullsh*t. They are still on that computer and if they truly did incorporate a program that automtically deleted e-mails off the server then that would in direct violation of the law that they are trying so hard to say was never violated. If you set up a system of computers to automically delete information off the server, then you are purposely trying to hide something and know da*n well that one day, someone is going to call calling on you demanding them. This is too convenient for me to stomach and it makes me sick.

[marcodele]

"Rovey, you're doing a heck of a job."

There seems to be no dirty trick low enough for these charletons to try.

[me4prezz]

Others are laughing, but for me, this is too far gone to be laughing. This is outright, blatent, in your face, daring you to call their bluff, showing that they cannot be touched lying. They are throwing it in our face and declaring to the American people that we can do nothing to stop them.

We can. We will or else all the freedoms and securities that we hold so near and dear to the American way of life will be lost.

[david1737]

I suppose Rove "mistakenly " lost those WMD too. lol

[naber1961]

Does anyone in the Bush Administration EVER tell the truth or know the meaning of it? IMPEACH THE IDIOT!

[frankly6]

You can't "loose" emails. Any teenager can retrieve them. You would have to intentionaly erase your entire hard drive to do that. It's just more lying and stonewalling.

[sandy19731]

e-mail deletion off a server - unintentional-
right

Rove's pants are on fire.

[tibu987]

Read the definition and think which political person(s) immediately comes to your mind?


Mach%u2022i%u2022a%u2022vel%u2022li%u2022an

Pronunciation: (mak"%u0113-u-vel'%u0113-un), [key]
%u2014adj.
1. of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
2. being or acting in accordance with the principles of government analyzed in Machiavelli's The Prince, in which political expediency is placed above morality and the use of craft and deceit to maintain the authority and carry out the policies of a ruler is described.
3. characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty: He resorted to Machiavellian tactics in order to get ahead.


Yeah, me too.

[irishmail42]

So Karl Rove's e-mail deletion was unintentional. Not to worry. It's just another mistake. Sure wish I could make as many mistakes as this administration has made and still keep my job.

[irishmail42]

So Karl Rove's e-mail deletion was unintentional. Not to worry. It's just another mistake. Sure wish I could make as many mistakes as this administration has made and still keep my job.

[aaabee-2009]

Others are laughing, but for me, this is too far gone to be laughing. This is outright, blatent, in your face, daring you to call their bluff, showing that they cannot be touched lying. They are throwing it in our face and declaring to the American people that we can do nothing to stop them. Posted by me4prezz at 04:51 PM : Apr 13, 2007

More examples of the utter moral bankruptcy of Republicans. Clearly they have two sets of rules: one set that applies to them, and one set that applies to the rest of us. They cut themselves the slack they deny everyone else. Posted by roger_inkart at 03:59 PM : Apr 13, 2007

Is this what you red-stater Republicans want representing you in WA? Or are you all like this?

[clestes-2009]

Yeah and I have swamp land in Arizona to sell you if you believe that!!

[reel-crazy]

Even if the emails were deleted, there is still a daily backup of data done on the server's alternate storage database for disaster recovery... don't BS me with a line of *** like this, Rove, as your emails are still out there. If they are not on a backup, you have more serious charges to explain now...

It's simply amazing how these white house idiots think we are all brainless pawns for their amusement...

[inventagod2]

A promotion is the only thing left to give to Karl Rove.
Well, that's in the world according to Bu$h...

In the real world, this would cause an entire nation to wonder what the Republicons were hiding THIS TIME.

[bogusbones]

I have contended that K. Rove is the primary root of the political divisions that exist in this country. From Haldeman to Rove, they are the despicable types of political operatives that lose sight of the fact that our government is "our" government, not theirs. These men have used whatever means possible to further not the progress of the country but their own political ambitions. When it is found that K. Rove has been guilty of or behind numerous illegal activities, he will plead ignorance and probably be pardoned by an outgoing President. It is absolutely beyond my sense of reasoning how people like K. Rove can thrive in an open government. This man is without morals and without principles. He should be sentenced to live the rest of his life in Bagdhad.

[vastr-wcon]

Once again, in a now familiar pattern, the current WORST-PRESIDENT-EVER has sunk lower than the former worst-president-ever. Tricky ***'s taping system and his 18 1/2-minute gap pales in comparison to the millions of potentially incriminating deleted e-mails.

The Congress should know what to do. The high crimes and misdemeanors of BushCheney are essentially identical to those of Tricky. The Articles of Impeachment and transcript of Tricky ***'s impeachment hearings are readily available. It now just a simple matter of following the script.

I suggest appointing Russ Feingold as the lead Senator in the BushCheney impeachment proceedings and having him work with Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers to draft the Articles of Impeachment. There is no time to waste. Carpe Diem!

[rharrin1]

E-Mail Deletion Unintentional

Yeah and the earth is flat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[walt1944-2009]

Life is a circle! It's 1973 all over again, Nixon is in the White House and the press and Congress are breathing down his neck for audio tapes of conversations he had with his advisors in the Oval Office over possible obstruction of justice in a little scandal called WATERGATE! The tapes were surrendered (Nixon wasn't as smart as George Bush and didn't burn them) but one tape had a huge 20 minute gap in it. No one could remember what was on it, how it got erased (not just once but 4-5 distinct times!) and everyone blamed Nixon's secretary.

For Nixon, it was worse than any "smoking gun" Congress could have found and yelled out loud and clear COVERUP. It forced Nixon to resign and for the past 30 years just the mention of his name meant corruption, crime, lies, and guilt; that is, until George Bush came along and turned all that into a science!

Today, we have a repeat, but this time with e-mails lost, stolen, spindled, mutilated, or otherwise destroyed, but most likely hiding in a White House basement. Will Bush be as accomodating as Nixon was and resign over this? Don't bet your life on it!

[bogusbones]

b48151
Your reply is just what Rove's Republicans do every time their in trouble. Change the subject. South Carolina primary. Bush wins because of some innuendo about him and a black woman. Rove wouldn't think of something like that in his wildest dreams. If we hadn't invaded (illegally) Iraq, our gas prices wouldn't be so high. Now blame our invasion on who? One of the Clintons? PeeWee Herman. Get a life. This line of debate is on the subject of illegally or knowingly erasing materials that are likely to be requested in a public court of inquiry.

[aaabee-2009]

Where are the lower gas prices the dems promised during the election?
Posted by b48151 at 06:08 PM : Apr 13, 2007

Friendly question, may I get a link to maybe one of the times when "they" promised that?

OPEC is in charge of "devising ways and means of ensuring the stabilization of prices in international oil markets". Wikipedia.

Democrats from separate states, individually campaigning does not a "they" make. The US Congress does not control oil prices across the global market. And right now, I am very glad of that.

[rharrin1]

Where are the lower gas prices the dems promised during the election?
Posted by b48151 at 06:08 PM : Apr 13, 2007

Ask the refineries one running at 50% == big profits

[aaabee-2009]

You libs don't get it....Nobody cares about this ***. Posted by b48151 at 06:29 PM : Apr 13, 2007

You hit it exactly!

That is why we are neck deep in corruption, untruthfulness, duplicity, deceipt, and cronyism and the world is in a new arms race. Because for 6 years nobody cared about this ***. They only cared about living large and making money.

Libs do get it, and now have power enough to begin reversing the downward spiral set by 6 years of not caring.

b48151 wrote:

"Where are the lower gas prices the dems promised during the election?"

Perhaps you could tell us all why it is GW Bush and his corrupt administration repeatedly lie to the people who pay their wages?

Perhaps you could explain the culture of secrecy that GW Bush and his corrupt administration have built to protect their financial interests?

Of course, you won't respond because you're nothing but a troll.

[dallison7]

I suppose Rove "mistakenly " lost those WMD too. lol
Posted by david1737


Good one!!

Maybe the yellowcake uraniun will turn up with the emails too!! Oh, and those mobile WMD labs!!

They have to be keeping this stuff somewhere!!

[ebrew3]

Pants on Fire???

Unintentional?

lol. Next they'll tell us that Karl Rove is a saint and that ******** Cheney isn't making a profit from our war on Iraq.

[randalds]

Where are the lower gas prices the dems promised during the election?
Posted by b48151 at 06:08 PM : Apr 13, 2007

Ask the refineries one running at 50% == big profits
Posted by rharrin1 at 06:24 PM : Apr 13, 2007
WELLLLL...The dems should investigate.
Posted by b48151 at 06:26 PM : Apr 13, 2007

We're getting to it. Their day will come just like Bush's and Cheney's, but forgive us if we concentrate on getting the mass murderers out of the White House first, before we put gouging oil executives in prison too. One must have priorities.

[sasi1-2009]

Anyone who believes this bunch of lies has to be dumber than Bush.

[sasi1-2009]

To b48151

I see you are one of those faithful sheep who follow without thought.

b48151 wrote:

"Answer the question...dipshit"

Because Bush and his corrupt Administration are more concerned with making a profit then saving lives.

Maybe you should also ask the Republicans why oil companies are making huge profits and what they are doing to support the troops who are defending them.

Next, you could ask ******** Cheney why it is that he's making huge profits while our troops are dying.

Give the Dems some time, and then if prices still haven't decreased, hold them accountable.

Now, answer my questions moron.

If you can.

b48151:

I'm waiting - why won't you answer the questions?

[formrusmcsgt]

Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored computer system.

I "unintentionally" delete important stuff all the time. lol. What a crock.

If Rove is that ignorant, he has no place being an advisor to anyone.

[yorkark]

Oh yea, I really believe that Rove's lawyer is looking out for us. If Rove had anything to do with the lost e-mails you can bet it wasn't an accident.

We need to cut the head off of this snake and then see what happened to all of these crooks.

[iceman_1960]

Nature's out to get you, D*ick.

Cheney plane undamaged in collision with bird

April 13, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air Force Two carrying Vice President D*ick Cheney struck a bird as the plane neared O'Hare International Airport on Friday.

The aircraft landed safely. Mechanics checked the plane while Cheney spoke at the Heritage Foundation's annual leadership conference, but the incident did not delay his departure from the airport to return to Washington.

"A bird hit the right engine of the plane upon landing," said Megan McGinn, a spokeswoman for Cheney. "He was told after he delivered his remarks."