The Case of the Missing E-Mails
by Jeff Davis
Part of the Constitutional duty of Congress is to oversee the behavior of the executive branch and make sure they don’t do stupid things like invading foreign countries for no reason, giving away the store to big financial interests, betraying the American people, little things like that. One of the reasons why we’re in the mess we’re in today is that Congress has signally failed to do this for the past several presidencies. Now the Democrats are making at least a spasmodic attempt to go through the motions of oversight, and the White House is basically telling them to bug off, with lies so palpable that they would insult the intelligence of a ten year-old.
According to a recent news article, “E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee…The Bush administration may have committed extensive violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved… the RNC has preserved no e-mails for 51 officials, said the interim report, issued by committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.”
Waxman, you may recall, is the one who responded to the billions of dollars which literally disappeared in Iraq under Viceroy Paul Bremer by setting up a website for whistle-blowers to report government waste.
The same article continues: “The 51 include Ken Mehlman, a former White House political director who reportedly used his RNC account frequently, the report said. ‘Given the heavy reliance by White House officials on RNC e-mail accounts, the high rank of the White House officials involved, and the large quantity of missing e-mails,’ the report said, ‘the potential violation of the Presidential Records Act may be extensive.’”
One source notes: “Ken Mehlman… was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. He served as the campaign manager for George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. In a June 2007 press release by the White House website, Mehlman was nominated by President George W. Bush to be a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial committee.”
Once again, basically, George Bush and his little Jewish neocon friends are flipping the bird to Congress and the American people and the law. They don’t want anyone investigating their no-bid contracts, illegal wiretaps, torture policies or secret prisons. Everything this administration does is either disgraceful, illegal, or spectacularly bone-headed. And now Congress is making little whiny noises about it, which is apparently all they will ever do. Just what DOES it take to get Bush and Cheney impeached or criminally investigated? Our “elected representatives” seem to be like a rabbit frozen in fear before a snake when it comes to confronting this gang of thieves. What will Congress do when Bush and Cheney abolish their branch of government after another staged terrorist attack?