Questions Remain About Rove's CIA Leak Email

[kpete]

February 24, 2008 at 22:56:07

Headlined on 2/24/08:
Questions Remain About Rove's CIA Leak Email

by Jason Leopold


A fascinating new book provides some possible answers.


"Another plausible reason, and this is the conspiracy theory, if you yank out an email system there goes your compliance with the Presidential Records act and there's the "my dog ate it" excuse," Gewirtz said. "There's really no net loss other than a PR loss."

Gewirtz said his biggest concern about the loss of White House emails is the national security implications.

"There's a separate server for political activity. The server is not located or managed by security experts," Gewirtz said. "Emails are sent by White House staffers using an unsecured server. Hundreds of millions of emails are sent through the open Internet. An email message sent by a low level political employee says where the president is traveling. That can be seen by anyone and can put the president at risk. It's something of a disturbing experience talking to Washington politicians Technical issue takes a back seat based on what the political goal is. The potential loss through homeland security is pretty profound."

In addressing Luskin's explanation that the Hadley email did not turn up because the wrong search terms were used, Gewirtz said that it's a possibility, but a poor excuse for not locating an email.

"You can type search terms that should but won't pick things up directly," he said. "You can choose to spell something wrong. Especially if there is no record of what you are searching."

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1. I find it hard to believe NSA would really destroy these tapes just because Rove ordered it

I can believe, however, that Rumsfeld ordered it, and the NSA told him the tapes had been destroyed. My money is that there were copies made as political leverage on the White House to comply with CIA and DoD investigations of the Iraq and Iran WMD deceptions. Otherwise, Hayden would have gone the way of Feith at OSP, years ago.

There's not a single e-mail that goes through federal servers that NSA doesn't make a copy of.