http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/26/do-the-missing-rnc-accounts-belong-to-cheneyDo the unidentified RNC accounts belong to Cheney?Yesterday, the Republican National Committee released a list of 37 White House officials who use RNC email accounts. But at least a dozen or so other White House officials with RNC accounts remain unidentified. Emptywheel notes that while the list released yesterday includes several former Cheney aides, it has not a single current aide to the Vice President. Are they among the unidentified officials? “It would make sense. It would be just like Mr. Fourth Co-Equal branch to refuse to turn over the names of his associates with the off-site accounts.”
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/26/ahhh-subpoena-power-or-why-is-henry-mostly-smilingAhhh Subpoena Power. Or, Why Is Henry (Mostly) Smiling By: emptywheel
As Christy pointed out this morning, it's amazing what the threat of subpoenas will do for you (with everyone, that is, except our recalcitrant Secretary of State). But I'd like to make a closely related point. It's also amazing what the threat of subpoenas will do. In the last 24 hours, three of the issues Waxman has been focused on have moved significantly forward, and Waxman has made significant progress in negotiations with Fred Fielding about whether and how Andy Card will be interviewed by the Committee. The three areas of progress are:
RNC EmailsYesterday morning, the RNC provided Waxman a list of 37 (out of 50) of the people with RNC emails. It also admitted that they had 25 million KB of email data for the 37 individuals in question (that's a lot of emails). And finally, they revealed that they had engaged a computer forensics firm to scan Karl Rove's hard drive.
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