Very seldom can this be said, but it looks to me like ThinkProgress got so excited by a story that they didn’t (yet) absorb the other, really explosive, story inside it. Check this out:
JusticeDepartment documents released tonight include new emails linking Karl Rove’s top aides — former White House political director Sara Taylor, who resigned last month, and her deputy Scott Jennings — to the U.S. attorney scandal. Subpoenas have been authorized, but not approved, for both Taylor and Jennings.
Significant, sure. Illegal as shit, well, duh! This goes without saying for this crew. But way down the story this sorta leaps out:
The messages from Taylor and Jennings to the Justice officials are sent from their Republican National Committee email accounts.
Now can we get those subpoenas to Chattanooga Rep. Waxman? There is no longer any way anybody can claim that “those RNChq.com and gwb43.com and other Smartech emails were just used for political matters.” These mails were entirely about government business, to wit the US Attorney positions. They should have gone through the legal, mandatory, US Archivist-recorded .gov email system. They did not. Case fucking closed already, dammit. Rove can call it a fishing expedition all he wants. At one point it might have been possible to negotiate using seine nets and bottom trawlers. Rove figured he was gonna get away with it yet again so he went all-in. It’s time to go fishing with dynamite.
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The government is the Partei; the Partei is the government
McClatchy gets it:
What a shame. Republican operative Griffin won’t be able to punch a ticket on his way to a infesting a judgeship.
As CD was wont to say, I’m playing the world’s smallest violin.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
They make baby jebus cry
Ya *think* they knew certain emails were for private, non-logged, “un-official”, official business. These are worse than the Brownie emails.
Seriously, I thought the caging list emails and joking was insane.. but really…
(FYI, anywhere you see ’Sara Taylor’ in the OAG Lotus Notes headers, that is a shortcut to st@gwb43.com, the “not-official business” email address.)
The following are best read in a thick ’Sopranos’-themed character accent.
Tell me how exactly this is RNC business??? She even copies her official email address. Shouldn’t that be OBVIOUS to everyone they knew what was going on here, they just got lazy with the two email systems. (We don’t want to imply we would actually listen to the Senator we worked to hard to circumvent.. lol)
I wonder if there is a {jc@gwb43.com} (purposefully intended to have multiple meanings ;) ) Also, do you think Coptix folks would get a Hardee Har Har over these emails?
Harriet Miers and "the Chief"
On page 57 (OAG000001795) at the very bottom there is an email from Harriet Miers to William Kelley that reads:
“I am quite surprised that we would engage on whether a personnel action on a Presidential appointment is justified for the reasons I have stated earlier. We can see what the Chief thinks.”
Is “the Chief” she’s referring to the President? The AG?
burying the Lede
It seems that no one wants to be responsible for creating the firestorm that leads to impeachment, even McClatchy. Is it surprising? With the new rules that Homeland Security are playing by every one of us can be ’picked up’ and ’held’ without cause at any time, in any place. It seems to me that even those that are in the Lede trying to ’wake us up to the crimes’ being committed by this administration are not willing to come forward with bright colored banners proclaiming the felonies and naming the felons. Can’t blame them too much, it’s business. Sad business. Scary business!