Mother Jones has a fascinating account of the White House’s unprecedented collaboration with the RNC to circumvent archiving and accountability standards by using private e-mail servers, in violation of the Presidential Records Act. The idea is to have all e-mails that describe illegal or unethical practices run through a non-government server so that those records will be harder to subpoena. The White House is, for partisan reasons, bypassing the ultra-hardened security of government servers for sending unencrypted e-mail over the public internet to regular desktop computers. It’s like a love letter to our enemies.
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On The Media had a story about this last week.
If I were found to be using a non-approved messaging system to transmit sensitive data, I would, at a bare minimum, have my security clearance instantly revoked.
There are clear-cut policies and procedures for this. Failure to follow them normally triggers a visit from the man in the dark suit with the steely gaze.
Isn’t that the truth, HD. I used to work in the General Counsel’s office of a Federal agency, and the amount of care and attention paid to ethics rules/complying with the Hatch Act was astounding. In a good way. The rank and file were scrupulous in ensuring that what they did didn’t have the slightest tinge of politics or impropriety.
And the you see appointees like Lurita Doan (GSA Administrator) and her merry band of thieves trying to figure out how to use GSA resources to support a political party. And the response? A hard defense from Tom Davis.
The terrorists have already won.
Dude, that’s ridiculously idiotic. How hard would it be to hack into those servers?
I think when history takes it’s turn with GW- it will be discovered that of all president’s he did the most to roll back democracy as conceived of by the founding fathers.
I think that’s already been discovered.
Well then change my comment to “discovered – and widely accepted”.
Well then, just let the Decider claim “executive privilege” when those email are subpoenaed. That would be a legal contortion worthy of this most contorted of Administrations.