Hats off to Mr. 140,000
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, June 19 at Tuesday, June 19, 2007.
This whole controversy over White House staff using private email accounts to conduct their nefarious plots to destroy the world is predictable in its low-level goon'ery. But like most stories, the stuff I find most interesting is in the details.
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House aides with Republican Party accounts, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reported Monday.The White House says the accounts were set up to keep political work separate from official business, but investigators concluded White House officials used the accounts to conduct official business in a way that circumvented the Watergate-era Presidential Records Act.
The 37 accounts the Republican National Committee did save include nearly 675,000 individual messages -- more than 140,000 of them from Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser."
In this case, it is that Karl Rove has sent over 140,000 emails in the seven years he has been working in the White House. I know the dude is an evil mastermind and all, but this stuff is just otherworldly. Thats something like 50 emails a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, for seven years running. I guess sowing the seeds for the demise of earth and the rise of Xalangthor is pretty email-intensive work....
Well there is always the possibility of cc-ing a bunch of ppl to all messages, so he might only been sending 1 e-mail a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, for seven years running. Or maybe there was an ongoing contest and the person sending the most e-mails within a year could choose which country to „free from tyranny” next.
Peter
Oh, I don't think there's much doubt Rove's a hardworking man. You don't destroy two centuries' worth of democratic constitutional tradition without a memo here and a passed note there.