Reply #147: Lawyer: Rove Assumed E-Mails Were Stored. ASSUMED?? NOT!!

[L. Coyote]

What happened to the safeguard put in place so Rove could not delete e-mails by himself?

Why, suddenly, does Rove delete e-mails again? OR, who helped with this assumption?

Given the history here, how could Rove be assuming something like this? NOT!

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Lawyer: Rove Assumed E-Mails Were Stored
Friday April 13, 2007 8:31 PM
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6555664,00.html


WASHINGTON (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.

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. Democratically chaired congressional committees want those e-mails for their probe of the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

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

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Any e-mails Rove deleted were the type of routine deletions people make to keep their inboxes orderly, Luskin said. He said Rove had no idea the e-mails were being deleted from the server, a central computer that managed the e-mail.

On Thursday, one Democratic committee chairman said his understanding was that the RNC believed Rove might have been deleting his e-mails and in 2005 took action to preserve them in accordance with the law and pending legal action.

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The RNC lawyer, Rob Kelner, also said that the Republican committee has none of Rove's e-mails on its server prior to 2005, possibly because Rove deleted them, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

Sometime in 2005, the RNC took action solely to prevent Rove from deleting his e-mails on that server. One reason for specifying Rove, Waxman said, appears to have been pending legal action against him.

Some 50 past and current White House aides had the RNC accounts, according to the administration, to conduct political business.

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