Republican (Darrell Issa) wants White House e-mail plan

[sabra]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A California Republican congressman has called on President Obama to put in place a system that ensures all White House emails be preserved even if official business was done through private e- mail accounts.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, made the request in a February 19 letter to White House Counsel Greg Craig.

Issa specifically mentioned the new administration’s brief use of Gmail accounts after Obama was sworn in last month, as they waited for the official White House e-mail accounts to become active.

“As you know, any e-mail sent or received by White House officials may be subject to retention under the Presidential Records Act (PRA),” Issa wrote Craig in the letter.

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A White House spokesman told CNN Thursday that all staff were told to forward any official correspondence to their White House e-mail accounts, and added that private e-mail accounts are no longer being used.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/19/republican-wants-white-house-e-mail-plan/#more-40659

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Irony alert

[liberal N proud]

1. Now they want to close the barn door.

What a bunch of fucking lunatics

[hughee99]

6. Hypocrite though he is, it's still a barn door that should be closed, IMHO. n/t

[global1]

2. When We Get All Of *Co's E-Mails......nt

[tkmorris]

3. People who need to STFU: Darrell Issa

[Missy Vixen]

4. This is the funniest thing I've read in years

So, we've been trying to recover the missing 5 million plus e-mails from the outside accounts and archival work-arounds the Bush administration used, but Issa is concerned with what the Obama administration might be doing?

Hysterical.

[butterfly77]

5. Here we go again..

another hypocritical bastard.

[santamargarita]

7. Hey Issa, you right-wing asshole, go find Bush's emails first!

What a fucking dick head!

[struggle4progress]

28. Top 10 Darrell Issa "Hall of Shame" Moments

Top 10 Darrell Issa "Hall of Shame" Moments
by Avenging Angel
Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:50:09 PM PST
... Committed to defending Bush administration wrong-doing at every turn, Darrell Issa in February weighed in on the White House's destruction of millions of emails. Now a self-proclaimed IT expert, Issa claimed that the likely criminal loss of the emails, including those for critical time periods such as the breaking PlameGate scandal, was just the result of a software glitch ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/4/164527/6100/884/490329

Darrell Issa's Software Error
— By Nick Baumann | Mon March 31, 2008 12:34 PM PST
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/03/darrell-issas-software-error

Congress continues probe into missing e-mails
By Jill R. Aitoro [e-mail] February 26, 2008
... Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said evidence of presidential records on the RNC's systems should be present before Congress demands the backup tapes. "Do any of you know of inappropriate activity? <Or> is this a fishing expedition?"
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0208/022608j1.htm

Congress to Bush: You've Lost Mail
"Administration officials have acknowledged that Rove and many other White House officials routinely used RNC accounts for government business, despite rules requiring that they conduct such business through official communications channels ... About 80 White House aides used RNC accounts for official government business, committee staff members said. Rove, for example, sent or received 140,000 e-mails on RNC servers from 2002 to 2007, and more than half involved official '.gov' accounts, the panel has said" ... Waxman 'thinks that he should have Karl Rove's every thinking . . . like a peeping tom,' Issa said ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/02/27/BL2008022702079_3.html

[DCKit]

8. The Republicon Hypocrisy is only matched by their hubris and willful ignorance.

This guy's dating profile on "Republics for Pages" must be a hella good read.

[musette_sf]

9. these d!cks are all like fcvking Rip Van Winkle

waking up NOW from an 8 year nap, with a sudden overweening concern for ethics and following the law.

[GentryDixon]

10. My message to Rep. Issa.

My message is hypocrisy.

When you call for all the emails George Bush and his ilk have hidden away, then we can take seriously your demand the Obama administration provide a clear audit trail.

You have no shame.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. A-fucking-men!

[GentryDixon]

13. Thank you for the heart.

:hug:

Edited for DUH.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. No problem. Did you just guess, based on timing or do you know how to find out?

[GentryDixon]

17. I did.

I keep popping over to the computer. I am trying to fix dinner, so I am in between chopping and the sauteing the veggies. I hit it just right.



:)

[4lbs]

12. CA has Darrell Issa to thank for the Gray Davis recall and Governor Terminator.

Issa spearheaded the recall effort.

[Plucketeer]

16. As well as

many other STUPID ideas. Issa is California's own Michele Bachmann. :puke:

[SoCalDem]

21. Here's what's sad..

The dems out here, are so lame that they did not DEVOUR that little insect...they all sat on their hands and pretended that Cruz Bustamante could win, and then no one pummeled Issa from the get-go.. There's plenty of dirt on him that could have derailed his little trainwreck before it left the station, but as usual our dems thought the recall issue would fail, and they had nothing to worry about..and even if it prevailed, the people of CA would choose Cruz...

That kind of thinking gave us Reagan, Deukmajian, Wilson, and now Arnie..and prop 8

[neuvocat]

15. Welcome to the party Darryl.

Of course you're a few years too late.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

18. File under: Hypocritical Jerk

[frylock]

19. car thief..

STFU

[SoCalDem]

20. Darrell's gonna be a busy guy, since he needs to start with the

Bush era emails FIRST !!:rofl:

[Still Sensible]

22. Fuck Darrell Issa and the horse he rode in on.

Where the hell was this asshole when the Bushes and Cheneys and Rumsfelds were shredding the Constitution, ignoring the Geneva and U.N. Conventions and turning the Justice and State departments into political tools.

[tanyev]

29. Fuck Darrell Issa and the rampaging elephant he rode in on.

I like to make it more GOP specific.

[Hawkeye-X]

23. Fuck off, Issa. You need to resign immediately and report to the U.S. Marshal and sit there.

They'll figure out what to do with you.

FUcking idiot - giving Californians Ahhhnold after a stupid recall.

Hawkeye-X

[Alcibiades]

24. Is Issa going to fund an investigation

of the Bush e-mails?

[jmowreader]

25. Grandstanding...

Obama's White House probably will preserve all its e-mails. In eight years, when President Obama retires and turns his preserved messages over to the National Archives, Issa will be able to say "see? I MADE them do this!"

Unfortunately for America, the Bush years were an eight-year-long 18-1/2 minutes of missing tape...

[lakercub]

26. I agree

all the e-mails should absolutely be preserved. No question about it. But where the hell was Issa when *'s administration was losing (purposely deleting) e-mails left and right?

Hypocrite

[BlueIdaho]

27. I got your fucking email plan right here Darrell...

You can see it right after you kiss my ass and call me Judy.

[dynasaw]

30. Darrell Issa Can Stuff It

Californians would love to string you up by your you know what if you had any. Thanks to you and your pal Arnold the Golden State is in the mess its in. So why the hell should we pay ANY attention to you? :mad:

[Hepburn]

31. OMFG.....

....:rofl:

NOW they are looking for this?!!?!?!?!

[AlphaCentauri]

32. Oh yeah! bring all the emails from the previous 8 years, please

* head

[truebrit71]

33. Hey douche, where was your outrage over Lt Awol's "lost" e-mails?

We'll get right on this new issue when you provide us with the proof you asked the same of the * WH...

Until then you are most entirely welcome to kiss my arse...