More RNC email excitement
The ‘private emails for official Whitehouse business’ business continues. In essence, the ‘private’ traffic from RNC email accounts has not all been retained; finding out why this is the case is presumably going to be pretty hard. I’ve never worked somewhere that deletes my emails without me asking for them to be deleted and I can’t imagine that the RNC are short of cash for providing storage, but mistakes (as well as deliberate actions) do happen. I am not optimistic that they’ll be able to definitively discover why the emails got trashed, unless someone trustworthy tells them (and if the truth is ‘it was a stupid mistake’, I am not sure that they are going to be able to convince everyone; as mistakes go, that really would be very stupid).
Tony Snow tried to generate some trust:
This is an administration that is very careful about obeying the law. We take it seriously. The White House legal counsel’s office takes it seriously.”
I fear that Mr Snow may fall short of persuading the numbers he needs to persuade.