More on e-mail-gate

Thinkprogress reports that as many as 50 White House staffers - including Karl Rove - have used non-official e-mail accounts in their official capacities. In fact, they've been encouraged to use both their official and unofficial accounts in doing business, to the level that one staffer actually stopped using his unofficial account because it was too confusing to keep his e-mails straight.

Dana Perino, in another in-over-her-head moment, said a few weeks ago that only a "handful" of staffers were doing this. Of course, she had to retract that lie - oh, wait, she claims she spoke without knowing the truth. Right.

In an unsurprising - and eerily familiar (cf. Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tapes) - turn of events, suddenly many of those emails have gone missing! Oops, did I delete everything off the server? Sen. Patrick Leahy (a new ELPN hero) points out that this is the Bush administration's attempt at a "the dog ate my homework" defense - in other words, this is completely indefensible!!! Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post has more on e-mail-gate!