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Deleted e-mails could prompt obstruction of justice charges for Rove, others

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It is quite possible that the Valerie Plame case may be reopened, and that could lead to obstruction of justice charges for Karl Rove and other White House officials. A Washington watchdog group is leading the charge on this.

Article is here.
 
It will be interesting to see if this story plays out. There are unanswered questions for me in this whole affair, but I think they are less sordid or conspiratorial as CREW would like to find. And Henry Waxman has become a sort of Roger Chillingworth for the Bush administration and is prone to both hyperbole and the old fashioned witch hunt with the 21st Century twist of a special prosecutor. He has lost almost all credibility with me.

I'm not saying that there couldn't be a story here, just that this in itself looks like another dead end.
 
Maybe they will trade Rove for Berger and just call it even. :mrgreen:
 
Captain America said:
Maybe they will trade Rove for Berger and just call it even. :mrgreen:
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Well since the administration is in a position of power, it ought to hold out for a scandal to be named later in that trade. :lol:
 
5 million emails deleted? Really? 5 million?:shock:
every week there's a new scandal from this administration - blow jobs don't seem so bad anymore.
 
Deleting 5 million emails seems hard to believe? Or scandalous?

How many people are on that white house server? Think about all of the crap email you get on a daily basis. I imagine in the last two and a half years I've deleted at tens of thousands of emails. It doesn't take too many people with a similar experience to reach that 5 million mark.

Perhaps there is something here, but it's silly to look at a number such as this as evidence of a scandal.
 
Mr. X said:
Deleting 5 million emails seems hard to believe? Or scandalous?

How many people are on that white house server? Think about all of the crap email you get on a daily basis. I imagine in the last two and a half years I've deleted at tens of thousands of emails. It doesn't take too many people with a similar experience to reach that 5 million mark.

Perhaps there is something here, but it's silly to look at a number such as this as evidence of a scandal.
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Yea we delete emails all the time, but I belive the US goverment is like all western goverments.. they are required by law to keep all communications in an archive for a number of years.... So spam mails should be kept too.
 
Last Friday, Keith Olbermann had a man who specializes in computer forensics. Here's what he said:

OLBERMANN: So what ultimately are the circumstances under which anybody could lose permanently 5 million e-mails in four years? How is it how would it be possible?

MENDELSON: To lose 5 million? That‘s a great question. And whether you can you could actually lose 5 million e-mails altogether is—that‘s one for the books. I‘m not really sure. I can say that if there are 5 million e-mails that were sent and received, there‘s a very strong likelihood that some substantial portion of them can be located.

OLBERMANN: Do you have any idea, from your experience in dealing with people who don‘t understand the permanent nature of computers and e-mail in particular, what percentage of the population doesn‘t realize that an e-mail, you know, a bad haircut is temporary, a photograph is forever, an e-mail is even longer than that, right?

MENDELSON: Oh, I would say the vast, vast majority of people don‘t understand that. And they may believe they‘ve deleted the e-mail, they may believe that it‘s gone forever, but I think they‘re simply misinformed.

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for April 13 - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com
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aps said:
Last Friday, Keith Olbermann had a man who specializes in computer forensics. Here's what he said:
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Wow, Keith Olbermann had someone on his show who supported his point of view? I'm stunned.:lol:
 
RightatNYU said:
Wow, Keith Olbermann had someone on his show who supported his point of view? I'm stunned.:lol:
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I saw Olberman interview Bob Barr once, and they did not get along from the start. However, unlike O'Reilly on the FOX Noise Channel, Olberman never cut his mike.
 
RightatNYU said:
Wow, Keith Olbermann had someone on his show who supported his point of view? I'm stunned.:lol:
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LOL Come on, NYU, wouldn't you agree that it's almost impossible that one can truly delete e-mail? I remember when someone from our IT people told me that I may think I am deleting my e-mail at work.....but I am NOT--that it could be retrieved it if one wanted to retrieve it......
 
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