Bush Advisers’ Approach on E-Mail Draws Fire

BUSH ADVISORS' APPROACH ON E-MAIL DRAWS FIRE
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Sheryl Gay Stolberg]
Political advisers to President Bush may have improperly used their Republican National Committee e-mail accounts to conduct official government business, and some communications that are required to be preserved under federal law may be lost as a result, White House officials said Wednesday. Of the 1,000 White House officials with political duties, 22 -- including Karl Rove, the chief political strategist -- have Republican National Committee accounts that are supposed to be used only for campaign-related work. But recent revelations that some officials have used those accounts for Bush administration business, including discussions of a plan to dismiss United States attorneys, has prompted a Congressional investigation. On Wednesday, Scott Stanzel, deputy White House press secretary, said the administration had recently begun its own inquiry, and had concluded that its policy governing political e-mail accounts was unclear, that the White House was not aggressive enough in monitoring political e-mail and that some people who had the accounts did not follow the policy closely enough.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12emails.html
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