Reply #45: Okay, let me ask you something

[jmowreader]

Let's say you were an evil, heartless, corrupt man. Let's also say you were a Republican working at the White House and you knew there was a 4361 sitting in the basement waiting to intercept all of your most heartfelt communications about the need to remove prosecutors who are throwing Republican Members of Congress in jail so you could replace them with more-compliant Bush cronies. These guys CAN learn, and the most important thing they learned from Iran-Contra is to not use the White House e-mail system if you're committing intentional malfeasance.

I know what you're thinking: if you're a Republican working at the White House, isn't being evil, heartless and corrupt part of the job description? Well yeah, but that's beside the point.

The point here is, if you KNOW the big iron is sitting in the basement just waiting to scarf up all that nasty evidence against you, you're NOT going to use a computer that's plugged into a 3174 cluster controller because--surprise, surprise--ANYTHING on the SNA backbone is going on tape.

Their options for talking to the gwb43.com server are laptops, Blackberries and Palms, not the government-provided workstation. They could do this shit over dial-up; POP3 isn't the most bandwidth-intensive service on the internet.