Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean to Delete Email

[cal04]

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 server, saying 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.

The prosecutor probing the Valerie Plame spy case saw and copied all of Rove's e-mails from his various accounts after searching Rove's laptop, his home computer, and the handheld computer devices he used for both the White House and Republican National Committee, Luskin said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fired-Prosecutors.html

[Debi]

1. Right, and * didn't mean to lie us into the Iraq War...n/t

[acmavm]

This is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Rove didn't delete

his e-mails. He thought they were being archived.

That's truly funny.

edit: :sarcasm:

[underpants]

4. White House 'Screwed Up,'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3037893&page=1

Responding to questions about the e-mails — some sent through the Republican National Committee and other private accounts and later deleted — White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "I will admit it. We screwed up and we're trying to fix it."

But Perino insisted, "There is no indication of any improper ."

[Hepburn]

10. Yeah, sure....

...the dog "properly" ate their homework! GMAFB!

[acmavm]

22. Oh hell, another paragon of virtue heard from.

[Demeter]

21. Clearly He Misunderstood the Term "Circular File" n/t

[bdamomma]

2. he didn't mean to delete the e-mails, how much more BS

can he give and they take.

[KingFlorez]

3. Didn't mean to?

They really expect people to believe that is true?

[Hepburn]

13. Well, yeah....

....I mean....doesn't EVERYONE understand that when one clicks on the button that says DELETE as to any email, that means the message is being saved and achieved, right?

:sarcasm:

[Robbien]

5. Lawyers do not get to dismiss

Rove knew exactly what he was doing and this lawyer is just throwing up a protective smokescreen.

[BuyingThyme]

6. Of course. The political chief didn't decide to put the information on political

servers in order to achieve political ends. And he sure as heck didn't decide to criminally delete his political emails for crimino-political gains. Don't be ridiculous.

[rurallib]

7. Never means to do anything - Stuff just happens and happens and happens

[Hepburn]

8. What total, utter and complete bullshit, IMO.

The email just "magically" disappeared, right? All 5 million of them ~~ and all because KKKarl made a mistake with his email that shit canned all of the emails.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaight, sure........:eyes:

[LiberalEsto]

9. ROFL!

And Dumbya didn't mean to start that war,

And the Dick of Death didn't mean to shoot that lawyer.

Riiiiiiiiight.




:rofl:

[C_U_L8R]

11. are we supposed to believe Bush's brain is a moron ?

i don't think anyone is gonna but that canard

quack quack

[ClusterFreak]

12. Didn't mean to....

...out a CIA agent as a means of political retribution...suggest that John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child...orchestrate a smear campaign against John Kerry in 2004...and so on...and so forth...

Oops! Butterfingers! I didn't mean to delete all those incriminating emails about firing all those competent but not partisan-enough U.S. attorneys...

[sutz12]

14. "No one could have expected that emails would be deleted..."

:evilgrin:

[madrchsod]

15. the dog eat my emails....

[la la]

23. or as in a written excuse

I received a few years ago, from the mother of a student---' his homework accidently got flushed down the toilet' SERIESLY

[rasputin1952]

16. I hope they were archived, and are suddenly found by some lonely

clerk that gets stuck w/the job...:D

Somewhere, those e-mails are packed away, just where to find them. like they always say, it is not so much the "crime", but the cover-up that gets you every time....:woohoo:

[napi21]

17. Ya know, I've always at least respected thec leverness of a

smart crook. NO I don'tagree with crime, but some crooks are really clever and ingenious while avoiding detection. On the other hand, I can't stand stupidity! Stupid people should NEVER try to get away with anything.

Many people have said Rover was really smart; even calling him Bushes Brain! Well, IF he ever was smart, he sure has lost it lately! This "I didn't do it on purpose" excuse shows as much creativity as my dog after he's raided the trash! You know the look...GUILT!

[Marnieworld]

18. well ok then, Sorry we mentioned it

Too bad that US Attorney Fitzgerals instructed him not to delete anything after August 2004. Hard to say he didn't know when they had to create an archive structure just for him. Hard to say he thought it was being archived when there are so many examples of people stating that the system was designed to avoid archiving and should be used because of that.

Just a big bunch of bullshit. No wonder his nickname is turdblossom.

[jillan]

19. That is the funniest thing I have ever heard!

[Supersedeas]

20. Rove is speaking through his lawyer again -- time for Perino to categorically declare his innocence

[mod mom]

24. OH GOOD...THEN THEY ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON THE SERVER. We'll get them there Karl,

unless you went through specific steps in which to see they were deleted off all servers, in which cause you are guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

[flyarm]

25. SOUNDS TO ME LUSKIN IS COVERING HIS OWN ASS!!

wOULD IT NOT HAVE BEEN LUSKIN'S RESPONSIBILITY AS ROVES LAWYER TO TELL ROVE..DO NOT DELETE ANY EMAILS??

sorry about caps..opps..


Luskin would have had to advise rove to not delete anything ..archived or not..

Luskin is playing... CYA..if Luskin got the memo from Fitz..or the court order!!


hey Fitz ..can we now say "obstruction of justice" for KKKKARL???

just my 2 cents..fly

[Junkdrawer]

26. Actually, it was Rose Mary Wood stepping on the wrong pedal....

Here's a picture...

[gratuitous]

27. The excuses just get wackier, don't they?

Who in their right minds is going to buy this shit they're selling? I've known developmentally delayed persons with a tested IQ below 70 who would have called bullshit on this.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. So then...

let's take a look at the hard drive, which he certainly wouldn't have wiped by accident.

[Dr Fate]

29. Would that lawyer or Rove be willing to say that under oath?

That's what I wish every Democrat on TV was asking.

[DFW]

30. Rove didn't mean to do anything improper.....

And the sun doesn't rise in the East in the morning, either.

[eShirl]

31. WE BELIEVE YOU, KARL!

:rofl:

[Catherine Vincent]

32. Does Karl Rove not know what the word "delete" mean?

:eyes:

[cascadiance]

33. When are these f'ers going to stop LYING?!! AND getting away with it?

[The Count]

34. Can't believe no one posted this cartoon in this thread!