State Dept E-Mail Orders DESTRUCTION Of All Evidence Of Top Official Who Quit Over DC Madam List

kpete

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Wed May-09-07 08:33 AM
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State Dept E-Mail Orders DESTRUCTION Of All Evidence Of Top Official Who Quit Over DC Madam List

State Dept. erases all reference to top official who quit over DC Madam list

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Randall Tobias, the USAID Administrator and a Deputy Secretary of State, quit suddenly on April 27 after being contacted by ABC News and admitting that he had "gals come over to the condo to give me a massage," which he compared to ordering a pizza.

Subsequently, Al Kamen writes that AID ordered all references to Tobias purged.

"On April 30, a couple days after Tobias's stunning resignation, we got this e-mail from Steve Tupper, a senior official in AID's bureau of legislative and public affairs," he notes.

"As you go about your daily activities on behalf of your Bureau or Office, please be alert to the need to remove all picture and statements from Ambassador Tobias in light of his resignation dated as of April 27, 2007," Tupper orders in the note. The instructions include deleting references to Tobias in "Websites, reception room walls, printed publications, brochures, PowerPoints, newsletters, etc."

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801804_2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

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havocmom

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Wed May-09-07 08:40 AM
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1. Is it time for the Federal Marshall's to go in and take ALL the computers yet?

Edited on Wed May-09-07 08:40 AM by havocmom

Just how much tampering with evidence does it take to get a response, America?

Send in the troops where the real problems are! Confiscate the evidence NOW!

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Junkdrawer

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Wed May-09-07 08:43 AM
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2. Ambassador Tobias: reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub ante

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northzax

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Wed May-09-07 08:43 AM
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3. this is standard

big deal. they aren't saying delete emails, or memos or files, only to take him out of anywhere he was listed as the public face of AID, when you come across it.

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merh

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Wed May-09-07 08:47 AM
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4. Actually, it is not uncommon to receive such orders upon the

resignation of an official. You don't want to be seen as an incompetent organization that your power point, newsletters, brochures, web sites, etc. lists a former head of the agency. Some of that is easy to delete without infringing upon the "records act" -- usually one waits to have a replacement named, so that you can simply substitute names.

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rodeodance

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Wed May-09-07 08:54 AM
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5. Like he was never there.

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