Karl Rove’s E-Mail Addiction
Rep. Henry Waxman’s House Oversight Committee issued a report on White House officials using RNC e-mail accounts for official government business. Besides the possible violation of the Presidential Records Act what’s really interesting is how much of an e-mail junkie Karl Rove is:
The RNC has preserved 140,216 e-mails sent or received by Karl Rove. Over half of these e-mails (75,374) were sent to or received from individuals using official “.gov” e-mail accounts.
Later on the report reads, “RNC has preserved only 130 e-mails sent to Mr. Rove during President Bush’s first term and no e-mails sent by Mr. Rove prior to November 2003.”
Let’s be conservative and assume 140,216 e-mails cover Rove’s entire time working in the White House. That comes out to 59 e-mails received or sent every single day. And that’s undercounting significantly. We don’t know how many e-mails were destroyed by RNC tech heads.
How many BlackBerrys did Rove go through? Was he getting the shakes when R.I.M. was almost shut down by a federal judge?
By sending and receiving all that e-mail Rove might have the strongest thumbs in Washington. Don’t challenge him to a thumb wrestling contest.
One more question: What percentage of the e-mails were from Nigeria?
[via mememorandum]
Sounds like a very busy finger-man. lol.
Gotta love Rove tho’ Rove lesson #2 – Keep on the email to ensure the best outcome.
No, I’m not sure what number one is. Haha
Ali A. Akbar
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