Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing

Hylas sends us to Democracy Now for a newscast on the missing emails, an interview with investigative journalist Greg Palast. Here's Palast talking about the fired US attorney from New Mexico, David Iglesias: "Iglesias believes the real reasons for the firings are in what are called the missing emails, emails sent by the [White House political advisor Karl] Rove team using Republican Party campaign computers, which Rove claims can't be retrieved. But not all the missing emails are missing. We have 500 of them. Apparently the Rove team misaddressed their emails, and late one night they all ended up in our inboxes in our offices in New York City." This story has had zero play in the US media; it's been being carried on the BBC.

Fortune

[Magada]

Sometimes I swear fortume has a mind of its own. Look what I got on the bottom of the page:

"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai

Re:I must be new here...

[skoaldipper]

What about NASA missing the moon [washingtonpost.com] tapes? Personally, I find that more alarming. Surely those Apollo broadcasts were sent over the airwaves at some point, right? I say we build a temporal feedback warp bubble and redirect the radio broadcast waves back to earth, storing them on Blu-ray this time.

As for the missing emails? I salvaged a dead hard drive once by putting it in the freezer. Maybe we should put some politicians on cold ice for a spell. Maybe that will unjar a few memories.

Re:So Why Is This On Slashdot??!!!

[aussie_a]

Because it involves e-mails. Slashdot covers news involving technology, e-mails are technology.

Re:Greg Palast's history is even better

[smilindog2000]

Somebody should mod parent as informative! There's a funny bumper sticker on a Mercedes I see in our town now and then: "I never thought I'd miss Nixon" How true....

Re:I must be new here...

[rockout]

If the Democrats truly believe that the current US Attorneys are fully qualified and should receive nothing but the highest levels of support, then the Democrats should deviate from past practice and not replace all the US Attorneys if they win the Presidency in 2008. The chances of the Democrats not replacing all of the US Attorneys is zero

Wow, I didn't know Karl Rove had such a low UID. How long have you been lurking here Karl ?!?!

Re:Greg Palast's history is even better

[kalirion]

The simple answer is that the Republicans are far more competent than the Democrats when it comes to election fraud.

I expect better of slashdot

[Tiber]

For one: You might as well have linked to any DailyKOS page saying the Jews did WTC. Seriously. Democracy Now thinks so also.
Secondly: I expect much better from my "geek news site". This article is flat out crap. Are the editors paying attention or did they just let their personal biases get the better of them to the detriment of the website?

Re:I must be new here...

[Alsee]

I think our best bet is to keep Republicans out of any office higher than local dogcatcher.

Heay! Some of us own and love dogs you know!

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Re:But They Did Catch One

[Mister Whirly]

Yeah, I heard Ann Coulter voted twice. Once as a male, and once as a dog...

Re:Greg Palast's history is even better

[ruiner13]

I've seen a better bumper sticker, IMHO: "Save the environment: Plant a Bush back in Texas"

Seems about right to me.

Re:Greg Palast's history is even better

[EvilTwinSkippy]

As in, "All your base are now belong to us?"