Reply #31: Not gonna wooooork.

[sofa king]

If they had obeyed the law by following the Presidential Records Act, then they might have had a shot at throwing the blanket of executive privilege over the emails. But probably not, since Republican lawyers shot that defense full of holes while rooting through Vice President Al Gore's emails back in the era of peace and prosperity.

Then again, if they hadn't been using those illegal private email accounts to pursue other illegal activity they wouldn't have to pull the executive privilege shenanigans at all. That is why they are both losing them and refusing to turn them over at the same time.

As I have said elsewhere, this one's going to bite them in the ass, hard. They're not lost, and they can't get rid of all of them. There are thousands of pissed-off IT professionals who know just where to look, not to mention the greedy, amoral criminals who comprise the GOP's operational staff who will soon realize that the path to power in the GOP will be through the incrimination of those in power now.

If they refuse to come clean, any reasonably clever blackmailer will be in a position to hold those emails over the GOP for decades, because at this point I'm sure many of the crimes they've committed will have no statute of limitations.

If they do come clean, well, there's still no statute of limitations. I may yet live to see the day when every last one of these bastards is finishing out their lives in prison.