Purge Surge

Back 'round to Karl.

Rove's lawyer argues that all of his 2005-and-before emails on RNC servers were deleted by accident. Not deleted from Rove's computers. Deleted from the servers. Presumably, that means the ones in Tennessee. By accident. And Karl Rove's emails were the only ones deleted from those servers -- even though dozens of other people in the White House used those RNC accounts.

That sound very likely to you?

  Cannonfire post

Me either. I thought they were saying they were deleted from Karl's machine, which I could possibly understand. What I had read was that they were saying he deleted them for space conservation, assuming they were archived somewhere else. But erasing them from the servers? And only Karl's? Wellllll....

And a reminder....

Jack Abramoff's former personal assistant, Ralston became Karl Rove's assistant in 2001, where she was his "implant" at the White House.

[...]

But after a report last October by Waxman's committee (then chaired by Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA)) showed that Ralston had accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff without compensating him, she abruptly resigned.

[...]

Ralston used such outside [email] accounts when corresponding with Abramoff, even writing to him once, “I now have an RNC blackberry which you can use to e-mail me at any time. No security issues like my WH email.”

  TPM Muckraker article

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

Ralston was supposed to give a deposition April 5. I can't find anything about it except for an unreferenced note on a discussion board that it was postponed indefinitely.

Update :

According to someone who's had conversations with White House officials, the plan to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys originated with political adviser Karl Rove. It was seen as a way to get political cover for firing the small number of U.S. attorneys the White House actually wanted to get rid of. Documents show the plan was eventually dismissed as impractical.

  NPR article

No wonder he erased those emails.