Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean to Delete Email

[babylonsister]

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Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean to Delete Email
By Paul Kiel - April 13, 2007, 1:39PM

Whoops. From the AP:

Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law....

"His understanding starting very, very early in the administration was that those e-mails were being archived," Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said.

The prosecutor probing the Valerie Plame spy case saw and copied all of Rove's e-mails from his various accounts after searching Rove's laptop, his home computer, and the handheld computer devices he used for both the White House and Republican National Committee, Luskin said.

The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, subpoenaed the e-mails from the White House, the RNC and Bush's re-election campaign, he added.

"There's never been any suggestion that Fitzgerald had anything less than a complete record," Luskin said.

Any e-mails Rove deleted were the type of routine deletions people make to keep their inboxes orderly, Luskin said. He said Rove had no idea the e-mails were being deleted from the server, a central computer that managed the e-mail.

[jimshoes]

1. A fucking den of criminals

one and all.

[TahitiNut]

2. Uh-huh. And I believe in the Tooth Fairy, too.

:eyes:

[Radical Activist]

3. Those 18 minutes of tape were erased on accident!

Really!

[LiberalHeart]

12. Rosemary was just keeping her "inbox" orderly, too, I guess.

[aquart]

4. LOL!

Luskin gonna burn in Hell.

[lovuian]

5. Liar

Liar

[Virginia Dare]

6. Well, I totally believe him..

anybody got a bridge they want to sell me?

[tridim]

8. Looks like he's storing his emails in his big-fat head.

What an ugly SOB Rove is.

[EFerrari]

7. Good! If his lawyer is out lying for him, they're worried.

:)

[L. Coyote]

9. First, get a layer, next, lie to the lawyer, next, have the lawyer tell the "truth they know"

[EFerrari]

10. LOL!

Precisamente.

[notadmblnd]

11. nope nope nope, not buying it.

It is SOP that daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups are ran. Each have different retention periods varying from two weeks to save indefinitely.. It is highly unlikely that all e-mails were inadvertently deleted. You'd have to have a moron of an administrator not to backup your servers in this manner. Even if they were deleted off the system, most servers have mirrored or striped sets of disks, so there should even be backup copies of backups.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. Phew! For A Second There, I Had Been Worried That Something Illegal May Have Occurred.

Thank God I can still have faith in our government after all!

[babylonsister]

15. You and me both! How DO you spell relief?!

:crazy:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

14. Oh, yeah! That Karl Rove is one seriously stupid mother ucker!!! YOU BET!!!

:puke:

:rofl:

:omg:

:puke:

Puffy turdbutt would be far more greatly admired in a max security prison than he is in real life!!!

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

16. Oops! But what about using non-whitehouse.gov accounts? Was that a 'mistake' too? nt

[malaise]

25. He didn't know he was using those either

:shrug:

[Captain Hilts]

26. Isn't that Rove just a wonder! Amazing man! nt

[malaise]

28. He's a roving

piece of shit.

[SoCalDem]

17. He thought that "Del" meant ..delicious food will be brought to you

so he kept pushing the button..in hopes that someone would bring him donuts & cake :)

[mod mom]

18. Just send the bastard to jail, already. He has had his fat grubby paws in so much

illegal activity, from outing Valerie Plame, to the Siegelman incarceration, to election theft, to politicizing the justice department. The world would definitely be a better place with kkkarl behind bars.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

19. Pfft. Emails PERMANENTLY removed via routine deletions?

You HAVE GOT TO BE EFFIN' KIDDIN' ME!!!

What a load!!!

[damntexdem]

20. I didn't know the gun was loaded, and I'm so sorry, my friend.

I didn't know the gun was loaded, but you know I'll always do it again.

[sakabatou]

21. Riiiiiiight

:eyes:

[IdesOfOctober]

23. Jinks!

[laconicsax]

22. I'm sure that's why he called tech support to do a

complete wipe of everything. To make sure they'd be preserved.

[malaise]

24. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

hahahahahahahahahhahaha - OK then :rofl: :rofl:

[Crabby Appleton]

27. I had the backup tapes right here but my dog ate them. nt