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February 26, 2008

We Don't Want To - and You Can't Make Us

That's pretty much what the GOP told Congress Tuesday regarding the party's decision not to attempt to recover the missing Karl Rove emails leading up to the Iraq War. Fuck history. Fuck the people. They don't want us to see those messages and that's the end of the matter.

Administration officials have acknowledged that Rove and many other White House officials routinely used RNC accounts for government business, despite rules requiring that they conduct such business through official communications channels. The RNC deleted all e-mails until 2004, when it exempted White House officials from its e-mail purging policy.

About 80 White House aides used RNC accounts for official government business, committee staff members said. Rove, for example, sent or received 140,000 e-mails on RNC servers from 2002 to 2007, and more than half involved official ".gov" accounts, the panel has said.

No doubt, these addresses were used because they provided cover for these officials' communications. Retrieval of the messages would not be an issue unless they could reveal the truth about how we got where we are today - and reveal to Americans that what we think happened is not what really happened.

How ironic that the Republicans talk endlessly about how the Democrats want to rewrite history to suit their political views, and yet are willing to blatantly destroy historical evidence so they can create their own version of it for future generations. And how ironic that Republicans criticized the Clintons for failing to recognize the honor and responsibility of their office, and yet are clearly unable to show any respect for the weight of responsibility the White House and its staff bear to preserve our history and serve our people. It's entirely shameful.

Posted by Becky at February 26, 2008 11:22 PM