{"id":684,"date":"2007-04-16T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/684"},"modified":"2007-04-16T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T16:11:37","slug":"from-our-department-of-unsurprising-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/684","title":{"rendered":"From Our Department Of Unsurprising Things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is certainly an&#8230;unsurprise&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/RNC_lawyer_admits_at_least_four_0413.html\"><strong>RNC lawyer admits at least four years of Rove emails missing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least four years of emails sent by White House adviser Karl Rove have gone missing, a lawyer for the Republican National Committee informed congressional staff members Thursday, a front page article in today&#8217;s <em>Washington Post<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;GOP officials took issue with Rep. Henry Waxman&#8217;s account of the briefing and said they still hope to find the e-mail as they conduct forensic work on their computer equipment,&quot; Michael Abramowitz reports for the <em>Post<\/em>. &quot;But they acknowledged that <strong>they took action to prevent Rove &#8212; and Rove alone among the two dozen or so White House officials with RNC accounts<\/strong> &#8212; from deleting his e-mails from the RNC server. Waxman (D-Calif.) said he was told the RNC made that move in 2005.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well there must be some misunderstanding here.&nbsp; Certainly a man who would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/003523.php\">conduct a whisper campaign destroying a political opponent with rumors that they&#8217;re a pedophile<\/a>, could not be so untrustworthy.&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Never.&nbsp; He must have pressed the wrong button.&nbsp; With his foot.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_Mary_Woods\">While he was answering the telephone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB182\/rosemary-bw-200.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is certainly an&#8230;unsurprise&#8230; RNC lawyer admits at least four years of Rove emails missing At least four years of emails sent by White House adviser Karl Rove have gone missing, a lawyer for the Republican National Committee informed congressional staff members Thursday, a front page article in today&#8217;s Washington Post reports. &quot;GOP officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,6],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-bushs-america","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}