Remember last week’s revelation that the White House is maintaining a secret e-mail system, Presidential Records Act, to allow them to talk about unethical or illegal things to make those e-mails harder to subpoena? Damnest thing: The White House erased a bunch of those e-mails. Totally accidental, of course. The 18-minute gap of the ’00s?
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What’s the saying?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Wanna bet the Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies have copies? And what would the Bush Administration trade to make sure they never reappear?
Is that how they describe the system? Are they like, “And we use this gizmo here when we wanna talk about unethical or illegal things, see?”
Maybe there’s another rationale.
I think it’s very much like Monica Goodling saying she’ll plead the fifth. One could ask whether there’s a rationale other than “she doesn’t want to incriminate herself, because the administration broke the law and she helped.” It’s possible that there’s another reason. But no betting man would take those odds.
Oh, there are perfectly fine alternative rationales. But they have nothing to do with what it was actually used for. See the DOJ attorney document dump, the Abramoff emails, etc.
Not only are they (once again) giving the American public the finger, but they’re making a joke out of all of the efforts that career public servants (to say nothing of the military) do every day to ensure compliance with communications records and security requirements.