Karl Rove's personal attorney yesterday dismissed any suggestion that the White House senior adviser purposely deleted e-mail to evade scrutiny, saying that Rove was always under the impression that his messages were being saved by either the White House or the Republican National Committee. "He has always understood that his e-mails, that his RNC and campaign e-mails, were being archived from very early in the administration," said Robert D. Luskin.
Rove With recovery technology it is possible to recover any data ever generated on a computer from the hard drive even if it has not been saved or the drive has been formatted.
Now THAT'S certainly not true!!!! (And this from a supposedly highly-educated person with "several degrees?" Give me a break!!!) Note: the dummy is probably thinking about the browser cache but that gets flushed and overwritten pretty often - hardly qualifies as saved and recoverable.
What I want to know is: Is Karl Rove going to be punished for using an email system outside of the one the MUST be archived by US Law to do US governmental business? THIS is a serious breach of the Law - one I think could see him do time in jail. I've read one of his co-workers said approximately 80-90% of Karl's messages would come from non-archivalable means. The rot just keeps getting stinkier. Michael
Looky Looky: WASHINGTON - The fight over documents has gone to red alert. The White House acknowledges it cannot find four years' worth of e-mails from chief political strategist Karl Rove. The admission has thrust the Democrats' nemesis back into the center of attention and poses a fresh political challenge for President Bush. The administration has acknowledged that some e-mails missing from Rove's Republican party account may relate to the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors last year. Maybe upwards to 4 million emails are "missing" in action. Kind of like Bush during Vietnam. Michael
Hey asshole. That is what an FBI guy who does computer security told me. Even if everyone can't be recovered a forensic computer specialist can recover enough to follow the trail.
The way NTFS works. When you delete a file. It doesn't delete the file. it makes a mark on the file system with an indication that the file has been removed. The file is still there. You can recover data from several formats ago. Unless he used specialised software to wipe the file, those files are still there.
