Michael Roston, rawstory.com
Pointing to e-mails between Bush administration officials and convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff that used private e-mail addresses, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ordered the Republican National Committee and the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign to preserve all e-mail records and to ensure that they aren’t purged or destroyed.
“White House officials have used nongovernmental e-mail accounts, including those maintained by the RNC, to conduct official white House business,” Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote in letters delivered today, copies of which were sent to RAW STORY. “The Committee has questions about who has access to these e-mail records and how the RNC protects them from destruction and tampering.”
One letter was delivered to Mike Duncan, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. A similar letter was directed to former Governor Marc Racicot, who headed the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign.