Reply #18: Mar. 27, 2007 Admitted LIES: WH Claimed RNC Emails Were Archived, ONLY a ‘Handful’ Of Staffers

[L. Coyote]

WH Claimed RNC Emails Were Archived, Only ‘Handful’ Of Staffers Had Accounts
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/12/perino-rnc/

On March 27, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that the RNC had been archiving all emails being sent through their accounts. Perino underscored that the archiving had not begun in response to Chairman Henry Waxman’s request to the RNC to preserve all emails, but rather “this has been something that was in place long before that.” She added, “The archiving that would have been for any of these — over the past few years, of emails that had been going back and forth between people that would have these accounts to the outside.”

When pressed on how many White House staffers use political email accounts, Perino claimed, “I think it’s a handful, I don’t think it’s a lot.”

Watch the LIES: VIDEO

Yesterday, the White House acknowledged both those claims were false: