E-mailGate !!

The story about the RNC email accounts does not want to go away, even with the help of the main stream media ignoring it completely.

Think progress reports:

For the last several months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been “investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act” by using email accounts maintained by the RNC and the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign for official White House communications. Today’s findings confirm that the accounts were used “for official purposes, such as communicating with federal agencies about federal appointments and policies.”

With the rise in Internet and email use in the 1990's , the Clinton administration revised the presidential records act to include keeping all electronic communications on file

Clinton Administration Policy: In 1993, then-Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary John Podesta sent a memo to all presidential staff explaining that the PRA required all staff members to maintain all records, including emails. Podesta stated that the use of external email networks was prohibited because records would not be saved as required. The 1997 White House Manual and a 2000 memo issued by Mark Lindsay, then Assistant to the President for Management and Administration echoed this policy, requiring staff to use only the White House email system for official communications.

The fact that the Clinton administration revised the law, did not stop Tony snow from lying to the American people during a press conference yesterday. Responding to a question about the illegality of the scrubbing of emails and use of RNC email accounts, Snow used the RNC trusted and approved talking point "CLINTON DID IT TOO"