Rove's Lawyer-Karl Did Not "INTENTIONALLY" Delete 5 Million E-Mails"-He was Just Trying To Keep TIDY

[kpete]

Lawyer: Rove didn't mean to delete email
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
32 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law.

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Any e-mails Rove deleted were the type of routine deletions people make to keep their inboxes orderly, Luskin said. He said Rove had no idea the e-mails were being deleted from the server, a central computer that managed the e-mail.

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Perino said she could not rule out that millions of White House e-mails could have been lost when staffers' accounts were converted over to Microsoft Outlook from Lotus Notes. It was a rolling process that took place in the first couple of years of the administration, she said.

"I wouldn't rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost," she said. "There was no intent to have lost them."

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_on_go_pr_wh/fired_prosecutors;_ylt=AiAje2vIkKIj76xPM_wto_ms0NUE

[donsu]

1. and after the lawyer said the above he smirked

nt

[Mandate My Ass]

2. "There was no intent to have lost them."

Right. Absolutely correct. The intent was to cover up the evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

[galloglas]

20. "There was just the intent to let them go missing..."

Rovian Dialect: Chapter 9, Paragraph 11

[gatorboy]

3. That you need your lawyer to speak for you over the matter says it all.

[spanone]

7. Thinking the same thing.

[Hepburn]

17. I'm a lawyer...

...and I thought the same thing, too. Deleted emails....just an accident, a mistake....and there is a lawyer talking about this immediately? Ummmmm....yeah......

Does not wash with me. I know what I think about why someone would ask me to get between them and the issue on ANYTHING that is "accidentially" missing or lost. Ummmm....yeah......

This does NOT pass the smell test...even maybe.

[stellanoir]

4. Tidily covering his Constitution shredding smearingly insincere posterior.

[BrainRants]

5. CNN Runs misleading headline...

Omits word "Intentionally"

"Lawyer: Rove didn't delete e-mails in fired attorneys case"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/13/fired.prosecutors.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[Uncle Joe]

6. It was an accident, he tripped and hit the delete key 10 million times

as you usually have to delete something twice to get rid of it, perfectly understandable, move along, nothing to see here folks.

[sutz12]

11. Honest your honor...

I was just standing there cleaning my fingernails with my knife, and he backed into it......14 times.

:evilgrin?

[soothsayer]

12. lol!

[oldtime dfl_er]

16. He thought they were African American votes!

That's the only reason he deleted them!


http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1097640

[jsamuel]

8. Seeing Luskin get involved makes me think Fitz might be looking at this closely.

or has looked at this closely

maybe this is what Rove almost got indicted for

deleting emails after told not to

[spooky3]

9. I wish Karl'd stop by my place this weekend.

It needs some tidying up, and it sounds as though he is incredibly efficient.

[tk2kewl]

10. I didn't mean to do it. I just spazzed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=647579&mesg_id=647579

[gordianot]

13. Nixon's secretary also inadvertently erased the tape.

Why is it Pukes cannot hire people some basic office skills?

[The Count]

14. All righty then...for a moment I was afraid Rove did a boo boo.

:shrug:

[Little Wing]

15. Looks like my plan to flood his inbox with penis enlargment mails worked!

He must've been hitting the delete button all day, every day, for years!

[madrchsod]

18. so deleting emails from my computer

deletes emails from the aol and opera servers?

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Then Karl Rove is a dumbass?

BS!

[catmandu57]

21. This just sounds so, so, well. stupid

and if it sounds this fucking stupid to me think of the millions of other people this will sound just as stupid to. E mail doesn't accidently get lost.

[Pachamama]

22. Everything Karl Rove does is intentional and there is nothing, nothing tidy or clean about anything

he does....

Everything this man smells and this has got perhaps the largest stench of all....destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice....to cover up crimes that could make Watergate look like kid's stuff.

[dogday]

23. Luskin and his parsing statements

He must devote a great deal of time to them.... When he steps to the frontline, something is up for sure....

[TahitiNut]

24. Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes? (God help us!)

:puke:

[mod mom]

25. heres a link to Luskin's comments on what Fitz received:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x648014

[EVDebs]

26. Don't matter. President is ultimately responsible for documents in Oval Office

Which is where the cue-ball was working outta.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=632110&mesg_id=637355

Thanks a lot Turdblossom !

[ljm2002]

27. They realize this is very damaging...

...and are trying to get out in front of it by putting out his story of it being unintentional -- he's just being tidy and assuming there are backups... har har har.

But the fact they felt they had to respond, make no mistake, is a good thing. And what it means is, we've struck a sore spot. Time to press harder.

My suggestion would be to confiscate all relevant hardware, including personal laptops of participating parties, ASAP. Then have it analyzed / recovered by a neutral party. But IANAL so don't know if that is in the cards.