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April 13, 2007
Off-book communications
Aah! The "off-book communication" - a way our political masters might be able to avoid being held to account. It seems sensitive emails that might relate to the Bush administration's sacking of US attorneys who weren't dyed-in-the-wool Republican apparatchiks might have been lost, despite action to prevent that Karl Rove chap from deleting his messages.
Faced with government record-keeping requirements, Rove and his merry men led "dual electronic lives", using Republican National Committee email accounts to avoid leaving a paper - make that electronic - trail. The question now is, has it been erased, or does it still exist somewhere?
They're a slippery lot, these Neo-Cons. It would never happen in Australia, of course. Our Government never commits any of its less savoury dealings to email. We're led to believe, in fact, that Liberal (and for that matter Labor) Ministers are selected purely for their inability to use and understand email. If any of them do learn, and are foolish enough to say anything sensitive, any embarrassment is prevented by our Disappearance of Information policy, where in order to safeguard democracy, journalists and others can look at whatever they want, provided it's absolutely useless. It's SOO much harder to lie achieve plausible deniability, when you've got written evidence.
Posted by cw at April 13, 2007 06:36 PM
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