From ABC:
White House staff are using non-governmental e-mail addresses to avoid leaving a paper trail of their communications, a senior congressman charged Monday.
(...)
The use of e-mail addresses from domains like "gwb43.com" by White House aides surfaced in the news earlier this month when the Justice Department released hundreds of e-mails between political appointees discussing the firing of several U.S. attorneys. E-mails from Scott Jennings, a deputy to White House political adviser Karl Rove, came from an address featuring the gwb43.com domain.
But Waxman also pointed to e-mails his committee received last year in connection to convicted superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, which show White House aides sending and receiving work-related e-mails from domains like "georgewbush.com" and "rnchq.org".
rnchq.org? Ah yes.... These guys. That makes sense, who'd think anyone else would be pulling the strings of the office of the president?
What about gwb43.com?
Registrant:
Republican National Committee
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
USDomain Name: GWB43.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Republican National Committee
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
999 999 9999 fax: 999 999 9999
Record expires on 16-Jan-2008.
Record created on 16-Jan-2004.Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CHA.SMARTECHCORP.NET
A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET
Wow, so the party provides "external" email accounts so the White House staff can circumvent internal mail and still attempt to claim executive privilege? This pegs a 100 on the 1 to 10 hubrisometer.
Posted by kerry at March 27, 2007 09:48 AM