Enough is Enough!

Arrest the entire RNC headquarters crew!

Sieze their computers, et al

Get the NSA to print out all their emails… they’ve got them all. Verizon, ATT… surely you passed all of their internet traffic to the NSA too!

a 56yo UPstate NY ‘i’NDEPENDENT

Comment by fnordboy — April 18, 2007 @ 3:33 pm

I agree with #15’s analysis. This action provides evidence of the violation of not just one law (Presidential Records Act), but also violation of the Hatch Act. Executive Privilege cannot be used to cover up criminal acts.

However, what I suspect is happening is an attempt to control those records, using this provision of the PRA:

§ 2203. Management and custody of Presidential records

(a) Through the implementation of records management controls and other necessary actions, the President shall take all such steps as may be necessary to assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies that reflect the performance of his constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented and that such records are maintained as Presidential records pursuant to the requirements of this section and other provisions of law.
(b) Documentary materials produced or received by the President, his staff, or units or individuals in the Executive Office of the President the function of which is to advise and assist the President, shall, to the extent practicable, be categorized as Presidential records or personal records upon their creation or receipt and be filed separately.

The claim to executive privilege was forfeited the minute they decided not to use the official and accountable white house system.

A forfeit of the white house email system = a forfeit of executive privilege protections.

…means anything…

It is my understanding that the WH is not asserting privilege over the “political” business emails sent by WH staffers/officials using the RNC accounts, but rather the “official” business emails that should have been kept within the WH system. While this use of the RNC accounts to conduct “official” business clearly violates the Presidential Records Act, I don’t believe it per se waives any “executive privilege” that would otherwise attach had the email originated on the WH server (again, accepting for sake of argument the WH definition of “executive privilege).

It is no surprise that the RNC turned these docs over to the WH – but I don’t come to that conclusion from a cynical point of view (for once). The WH has clearly indicated that it has a radically expansive view of what materials fall under the umbrella of “executive privilege”, and the RNC (which existed long before GWB and will continue long after he’s in the dustheap) has no business taking sides in the fight. One interesting option (who knows if its applicable in this instance, but wtf) would have been for the RNC to file its own lawsuit as a “stakeholder”, asking the courts to determine which side is correct vis-a-vis the assertion of executive privilege. Anyone want to weigh in on whether that’s a “political question” that the Article III courts don’t have jurisdiction to take?

–> Grow a pair.

As I have said to every one of my representatives and the DNC, every time we kow-tow to these bullies and let them run rampant over the constitution and the people, we play into the “weak-willed Democrat” myth they so love to promote.

April 17, 2007 — Our sources inform us that a possible fire today has knocked out classified communications services at the US State Department’s Communications Annex facility (State Communications Annex – SA26 – in Beltsville, Maryland), just outside of Washington, DC. Also affected by the outage is the joint National Security Agency-Central Intelligence Agency Special Collection Service (SCS) (F6) (”CSSG”) located in a building off Springfield Road and located adjacent to SA-26, which is located at 8101 Odell Road. The SCS relies on the State Department backbone secure satellite communications for its links to covert listening posts and devices around the world. Agencies affected by the communications outage are the State Department, NSA, CIA, and Department of Defense. The State Department has been forced to use its backup facility. a CIA facility located at Brandy Station in northern Virginia.

I’m not much of a tin hat man, but ….?

This is just a bad shell game run by cons to fool the simpleminded.Corporate control of government and the media is beyond obvious ,and which democrats are free of corporate control !

Ralph Nader was right , a government by ,of and for the corporations supported by both parties !Go on ,Prove me wrong ,democrats , because at this point you seem like the next stage ( a shoo in election in 2008 )in corporate domination which after all is only another name for FASCISM !

If the RNC was thinking about the future of their party, they would have complied with Conyers request and started distancing themselves from this wretched administration.

Instead, they’ve chosen to stay hitched to that wagon. Now they’re going to go down with the ship.
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