RNC Releases Partial List Of White House Officials With Partisan Email Accounts

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RNC Releases Partial List Of White House Officials With Partisan Email Accounts

Lawyers for the Republican National Committee sent a letter tonight to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) with a list of 37 individuals “who we believe are or were White House employees using RNC accounts for whom we have been able to identify active e-mail data on operational RNC servers.”

The list — which includes senior officials like Karl Rove and Dan Bartlett as well as interns for the Office of Political Affairs — can be found below.

The White House has said that roughly 50 White House officials have had RNC accounts since 2001, and the letter suggests that more individuals with RNC accounts will be identified. “As the RNC is still in the early stages of its analysis, we expect that this list will require revisions at a later date.”

The White House’s use of these accounts appears to be extremely extensive. The letter states that the RNC “has gathered approximately 25,500,000 kilobytes of e-mail data from the 37 individuals listed above.” Moreover, this figure “will almost certainly increase” once forensic experts complete the “collection of active e-mail files off of hard drives and blackberries.”

The partial list of White House officials with RNC accounts is below the fold:

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[hwmnbn]

1. I don't trust them.....

Someone from Waxman's or Leahy's committee should be helping with the forensics.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. My first thought! I don't trust them. ....n/t

[napi21]

2. OK, someone who is much more computer savy than please tell me

if the avg. email is about 1/2 a page of text, just how many emails would make up 25,500,000 GB?

Yes, I realize pictures canreally put the screws to the avg, but I doubt very much that there were a lot of pics in those emails.

Please, just take a guess!!!

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3. How Cute of the RNC

No mention of how it's illegal for White House employees to use private servers and that they've, "gone to great lengths" and had an "extensive two hour briefing" and "acted in good faith" and responded to how the Committee had agreed "in principle".

I don't think Wax man going to buy this BS.

K&R

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4. Here's the list, with their postions noted

Dan Bartlett, counselor to President Bush

Trey Best, associate director Office of Political Affairs

Mike Britt, associate director Office of Political Affairs

Jane Cherry, associate director Office of Political Affairs

Raul Damas, former associate director Office of Political Affairs

Melissa Danforth, former associate director Office of Strategic Initiatives

Paris Dennard, executive assistant Office of Political Affairs

Michael Ellis, former associate director Office of Strategic Initiatives

Jonathan Felts, former associate director Office of Political Affairs who became assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney for political affairs

B.J. Goergen, former executive assistant to Karl Rove who later joined the State Department’s office of public diplomacy

Israel Hernandez, former assistant to Rove who later became assistant secretary of commerce

Taylor Hughes, executive assistant and special projects coordinator to Rove

Jason Huntsberry, former associate director Office of Political Affairs

Barry Jackson, deputy to Rove

Scott Jennings, deputy director of political affairs

Korinne Kubena, associate director Office of Political Affairs

Cathie Martin, deputy director of communications for policy and planning

Anita McBride, chief of staff for the first lady

Lauren McBrien, former special assistant to the director of political affairs for Cheney

Mindy McLaughlin, associate director of scheduling

Mel Raines, former assistant to Cheney for political affairs

Susan Ralston, former assistant to Rove

Cliff Rosenberger, staff assistant Office of Political Affairs

Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the president

Matt Schlapp, former director of political affairs

Jon Seaton, former associate director Office of Political Affairs

Scott Sforza, deputy director of communications for production

Nick Sinatra, associate director Office of Political Affairs

Brad Smith, executive assistant Office of Political Affairs

Steven Soper, former associate director Office of Political Affairs

Jessica Swineheart, former executive assistant Office of Political Affairs

Sara Taylor, director of political affairs

Nicholas Thompson, associate director Office of Strategic Initiatives

Jocelyn Webster, former staff assistant Office of Political Affairs

Pete Wehner, director of Office of Strategic Initiatives

Emily Willeford, director of Rove’s office

OPA intern (used by various interns)

[Patsy Stone]

6. "special projects coordinator to Rove"

I don't think that's a pretty job.

[BR_Parkway]

8. Karen Hughes didn't have one? And are my tax $$ paying for an Office

of Political Affairs?

[Roland99]

9. Crapload of "Office of Political Affairs" in those titles.

Nothing partisan going on there.



:eyes:

[WiseButAngrySara]

11. 15 of these are 'former' How may of these are because of

Abramoff connections other than Ralston? Anyone know why they had to leave to tend to family or whatever?

The formers constitute almost 1/2 of the 35. Is this significant?

[LiberalFighter]

5. Getting the list should only take a few minutes.

[0rganism]

7. 25.5 G of partisan Republican email... can you imagine trying to wade through that?

Presuming they use the most annoyingly cumbersome formats and attachments possible and include prior conversations going back to 1999, we're still talking tens, hundreds of thousands... what a pain. Even with the investigations teams running some well-designed search filters, it'll be like spending a week in freeperville, 24/7.

And there's probably more to come, a lot more.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

12. HATCH ACT

SEE http://www.osc.gov/ha_fed.htm

OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL http://www.osc.gov/index.htm

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13. . . .

[Kip Humphrey]

14. "Office of Strategic Initiatives?" ...Hmmmm