Thursday, April 12, 2007

How clear can it be!?

I saw this on Dan Froomkin's column on washingtonpost.com today:

"...personnel working on behalf of the EOP [Executive Office of the President] are expected to only use government-provided e-mail services for all official communication."

The handbook further explains: "The official EOP e-mail system is designed to automatically comply with records management requirements."

And if that wasn't clear enough, the handbook notes -- as was the case in the Clinton administration -- that "commercial or free e-mail sites and chat rooms are blocked from the EOP network to help staff members ensure compliance and to prevent the circumvention of the records management requirements."

Now they are going to try to get us to believe that the staff "didn't know" that it was doing anything wrong. What will be Rove's latest excuse?

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