The fun never stops with the Bush administration.  From the AP:

E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday.
The Bush administration may have committed “extensive” violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved, said the committee’s Democratic chairman, adding that the panel will deepen its probe into the use of political e-mail accounts.

The committee’s interim report said the number of White House officials who had RNC e-mail accounts, and the number of messages they sent and received, were more extensive than previously realized.

The administration has said that about 50 White House officials had RNC e-mail accounts during Bush’s presidency. But the House committee found at least 88.

The RNC has preserved e-mails from some of the heaviest users, including 140,216 messages sent or received by Bush’s top political adviser in the White House, Karl Rove. However, “the RNC has preserved no e-mails for 51 officials,” said the interim report, issued by committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

I’m tired of the (few) Bush apologists.  The man has single handedly done more to anger Republicans/conservatives than he has to upset Democrats.  Runaway spending.  A huge new entitlement program.  A very costly and lengthy war that has sullied our international reputation.  Disregard for the law.

The last one has become the real troubling one.  The bedrock of our society is the rule of law.  This email scheme just goes to the heart of the matter: George Bush allowed his people to blatantly violate a law (possibly laws).  That should not be tolerated by any American regardless of political affiliation.

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