May 25, 2007
Bad email address sends Karl Rove emails to reporter
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arl-rove-emails-to-reporter/
Bad email address sends Karl Rove emails to ReporterCheck that email
address! There could be serious consequences if you don't, judging from
an
incident reported Thursday. Because of a mistaken email address, over
500 of
Karl Rove's emails ended up in the hands of an investigative reporter.
Nearly seven years ago, some pranksters created a fake domain for
President
Bush. (GeorgeWBush.org). More recently President Bush's party started
using
the .com version of the domain - GeorgeWBush.com. Karl Rove, the
president's
Deputy Chief of Staff, is also his political advisor, and Rove wanted to
use
a different email address to separate his political correspondence from
his
official duties.
But investigative reporter Greg Palast tells a different story - and he
says
he's got the emails to prove it. Apparently confusion among Rove and the
people he communicated with led to over 500 sensitive emails being sent
to
the parody web site by mistake. The parody site decided to share the
emails
with Palast, who took them to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a law professor and
Democratic political activist. (He's also the son of the U.S. attorney
general during the Kennedy administration.) After scrutinizing Rove's
emails, Kennedy says there's evidence of aggressive political manuevers
in
the supposedly non-political Department of Justice - which he says
constitutes a felony. Palast says he's shared the controversial emails
with
the Democratic Congressman who's chairing investigations into the
firings of
U.S. attorneys.
Just think. This could have major political repercussions, exacerbating
an
already tense confrontation between investigators in Congress and
employees
from the U.S. Justice Department.
And it's all because someone used the wrong email address!
--
"The first casualty of war is not truth, but perspective.
Once that's gone, truth, like compassion, reason,
and all the other virtues, wanders around like a wounded orphan."
Ente Grillenhaft
--
when you believe the only tool you have is a hammer.
All problems look like nails.
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