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White House Aides Broke Rules on E-Mails

Posted Jun 19, 07 12:46 PM CDT in US,  Politics    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – Hundreds of thousands of White House e-mails sent on Republican National Committee accounts have been deleted or are missing, an apparent violation of the law governing presidential records. The Washington Post reports that Karl Rove personally sent or received 140,000 e-mails, more than half of which appear to be official White House business.

The House committee investigating the e-mails revealed yesterday that 88 White House officials used political accounts—not the 50 previously acknowledged—and the RNC says it has no records for 51 of them. Congressional Democrats suspect that White House aides used their political accounts for official business to avoid scrutiny or having to produce them in some future investigation.

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