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RNC “loses” emails concerning official business

Via Talking Points Memo, citing an AP story:

The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.

Congressional investigators looking into the administration’s firing of eight federal prosecutors already had the nongovernmental e-mail accounts in their sights because some White House aides used them to help plan the U.S. attorneys’ ouster. Democrats were questioning whether the use of the GOP-provided e-mail accounts was proof that the firings were political.

Here’s why I feel compelled to discuss this on a tech law blog: Unless one has hired the very sloppiest of IT departments, emails don’t just disappear. The RNC, of course, has puh-lenty of money for a proper IT infrastructure. Therefore…

Also, if the allegations are true, it was illegal for White House officials to conduct official state business via private email accounts.

So this actually is a comm law policy story…