90 White House officials used private email accounts

Last month the Democrats tried to subpoena Karl Rove's White House email account, and discovered that he had a private account set up with the RNC.  Until now, everyone had thought Karl Rove was the only White House member to have an alternate email account.  But according to a report released by Henry Waxman's House Government Reform Committee, over 90 White House officials had private accounts with the RNC:

Almost 90 White House officials have maintained private e-mailaccounts on the server of the Republican National Committee, includingtop advisers such as Karl Rove and former White House Chief of StaffAndrew H. Card, according to a House committee report released today.

Thedisclosure means the practice is much more common than Bushadministration officials have previously acknowledged, the report noted.

The RNC has preserved more than 140,000 e-mails sent or received byRove, but only 130 were written before President Bush won re-electionin 2004, according to the report. The committee has preserved another100,000 e-mails from two of Rove's top lieutenants, former White Housepolitical director Sara M. Taylor and deputy political director W.Scott Jennings, according to the House Oversight Committee.

This is serious because all emails pertaining to policy -- especially the US Attorney firing scandal -- are supposed to be on the White House email account.  Rove and other White House officials were using RNC email accounts in order to keep their conversations hidden just in case WH emails were subpoenaed.

Bottom line: Some of the business pertaining to the Justice Department's firing of 9 US Attorneys was conducted on partisan email accounts.