TPM: This is one worth slowing down and seeing

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013608.php


This is one worth slowing down and seeing just what the White House is saying. Executive privilege doesn't just apply to conversations the president has with his top aides. It doesn't just apply to conversations his top aides have with each other. It doesn't even just apply any presidential aides doing anything connected to the White House. Executive privilege applies to the outside political party work the president's aides do on their own time.

Remember, members of the White House staff have outside party-funded email accounts for doing political work they are not permitted to do on taxpayers time. They do their official work with government phones, emails, blackberries etc. But if they break the rules and do official work using outside party-funded email addresses than executive privilege covers that too.

correspondence. I doubt that this will occur it seems that no matter what happens they just laugh it off and say FU to the American people.

that if Democratic Party members who see this don't contrast it with "Travelgate" and draw the implicit conclusion about how the opposition party regards the playing field, they have failed to see what is in front, and ahead, of them.

I see this snow balling...

If two Republicans knock over a liquor store, aren't their planning sessions covered by executive priviledge?

so go away and die. The Hatch Act has been eliminated via signing statement.

Which is what the investigation is all about in the first place. GOPers have set up a totalitarian government all in secret and no non-GOPers allowed.

It shouldn't be too hard to find out. There are backups, copies, and archives all over the place just waiting to be discovered.