Thursday, April 12, 2007
The White House email kerfuffle
Lefty bloggers, both florid and reserved, are in high dudgeon over yesterday's report that White House staffers episodically used personal email accounts -- issued for conducting political and personal business -- to communicate on official business. The consequence was that an indeterminate number of emails relating to official White House business (including, perhaps, the firing of U.S. attorneys) were not captured on government servers.
To which I say: May the blogger who has never conducted personal business on his work email or discussed work on his personal email -- possibly or even probably in technical violation of his employer's policy -- throw the first snark.
14 Comments:
By 
RandomThoughts, at
Thu Apr 12, 09:41:00 AM:
Should public officials be held to a higher standard? Can't we expect more from the people who want our support?
By TigerHawk, at
Thu Apr 12, 09:47:00 AM:
Oh, I don't know. People are people. Any political blogger who checks his site meter knows that a startling percentage of the readers come from federal and state government agencies. Yes, everybody should follow the rules. The ugly truth, though, is that both public and private workplace rules have become so complex in the serve of one or another narrow constituency that they are violated all the time at some petty level. Rarely do those violations turn out to be consequential. They are rarely derivative of a conspiracy. The more likely explanation is workaday sloppiness. I think that anybody who works in a cubicle suspects that to be true.
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Apr 12, 11:09:00 AM:
Should public officials be held to a higher standard?
If you want. Better specify precisely what that standard is first though.
Clinton was the 1st president to put a 100% private phone line into the Whitehouse that didn't go through the normal switchboard and call logging process.
By 
, at
Thu Apr 12, 12:13:00 PM:
Show me the person who does not send work email from a personal account and/or personal email from a work account and I will show you an unemployed person.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Thu Apr 12, 12:26:00 PM:
Ahem...this from the people (right wing tools) who invented snarkyness? ;-)
Wake up guys. Those chickens are now pecking at the door again...
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Apr 12, 01:18:00 PM:
Those chickens are now pecking at the door again...
I see no democrat congresscritters outside my door.
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Apr 12, 02:41:00 PM:
The administration has rather a talent for losing documents that they do not want to disclose.
The prior administration just sent Sandy Burglar in to steal things they didn't want to disclose.
By , at
Thu Apr 12, 02:50:00 PM:
Sandy Berglar had them but he lost them and Tim Russert saw him with them but he can't remember.
Time to get over BDS and get on with the serious stuff Senators Leahy, Schumer, Durban, Reed, Dodd and Kennedy. Time to stop playing Queen Pelosi, village idiot Murtha, prime minister Lantos and get on with the funding of the current Administration's foriegn policy. 2008 is coming soon and your reign in Congress will end as quicky as it started. What is currently being demonstrated is gross irresponsibility.
By , at
Thu Apr 12, 03:07:00 PM:
Wasn't it Hillary Clinton who 'misplaced' the Rose Law Firm billing records in the White House map room for two years?
By , at
Thu Apr 12, 05:15:00 PM:
Rank and file federal employees are not allowed to do this under any circumstances. They are not even allowed to access personal email while working.
By SR, at
Thu Apr 12, 09:45:00 PM:
Dear zhombre,
If you believe such a naive notion, there's some beach front property in Arizona not overcrowded by illegal immigrants for sale.
Democrat congresspersons want to paper Washington with subpoenas, Republican anmesia will be epidemic.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Thu Apr 12, 10:50:00 PM:
What Howard in Boston said - Amen.
By Gordon Smith, at
Fri Apr 13, 11:04:00 AM:
Let me get this straight... Y'all are saying that:
It's o.k. to delete five million emails, even after the Special Prosecutor tells you not to disturb any information?
It's o.k. to lie to the American people?
It's o.k. to destroy evidence, if you're a Republican?
You've all lost any sense of decency.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sat Apr 14, 12:45:00 AM:
Screwy, listen louder. Getting into high dudgeon over false equivalences is just so 1990's
