50 White House officials have used RNC accounts.

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/12/50-white-house-officials-have-used-rnc-accounts/

50 White House officials have used RNC accounts.

The LA Times reports:

Today, 22 staffers have e-mail accounts issued by the Republican National Committee, Stanzel said, noting that it is a tiny percentage of the 1,000 political appointees in the executive office of the president.

Since 2001, about 50 staffers e-mailed using the system, he said. One former White House staffer told National Journal recently that Rove uses his Republican National Committee e-mail account for 95 % of his e-mail communications.

One former White House official, Assistant Press Secretary Adam Levine, told The Times that he was issued a private laptop computer but he found the dual system so cumbersome that he decided to use only his official White House computer.

However, Levine recalled seeing White House staff members moving fluidly between their official computers and the laptops provided by the Republican National Committee.

LAT article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-emails12apr12,0,4800585.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[flpoljunkie]

1. Is there no end to the corruption in the Bush administration?

Apparently not. It not only seems--it is, endless.

[Ian David]

2. It would have been smarter for them to use Hotmail or something, wouldn't it? n/t

[LiberalFighter]

3. Not sure. But I believe not smart to use AOL

The last time I tried AOL and found that it did not download to my computer.

In addition, the emails stayed on the computer for my account until I deleted. Most likely it is still there.

[BR_Parkway]

4. So the "fluidly moving" staff members aren't in violation of working

in political party and election issues while they're on gov't (taxpayer) paid time? Certainly that's not what he meant to imply. Surely they only did this during their coffee breaks and lunch hours, right? :sarcasm:

[bobthedrummer]

5. This 2006 White House Salary List is helpful when researching this

it was compiled by Alexis Simendinger for National Journal
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0711nj1.htm

fair use cited

[LiberalFighter]

6. I'm sure those 22+ staffers are staffers that in key positions