Cause if the Dems get a hold of six years of RNC emails, you’re all screwed. Royally:
Multiple congressional investigations have uncovered evidence that White House appointees regularly communicate using email accounts provided by the Republican Party. … Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) issued letters to the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign directing them to preserve all emails by and for White House officials, and to meet with the committee about the legal issues involved in conducting official government business using partisan email accounts.
They will get those emails. The National Journal article (which the above-quoted blog post is based on) says it’s an untested question, but courts have long agreed that Congress must be able to investigate in order to exercise its legislative function. The only people that tend to get away from Congress’ reach are constitutionally-protected branches of government: SCOTUS, White House, the states, or protections built into the Bill of Rights (i.e. attorney-client privilege).
So RNC people, better start purging. It’s infinitely better for someone go to jail for a few years on a charge of obstruction of justice than whatever they may find in those messages. Somebody will take care of you and your family when you get out.
Let this be two important lessons to all you burgeoning politicos: Check politics at the door when you govern, and never, ever write something in an email you don’t want the whole world to see.
