Red Alert. The experts in the NSA must be working overtime to retrieve KR's emails from the servers of all the users in his circle. Let's see how thoroughly they complete their task.

Richard M. Smith, an Internet security and privacy consultant in Boston, said Mr. Leahy’s surmise that the missing e-mail messages are preserved somewhere could be right. But he said there was no way to know without a thorough examination of all the computers the messages passed through.

The first step is to examine the mail programs used by the RNC and the WH. Any email that originated from the RNC will certainly be on a server somewhere if the recipient hasn't deleted it. A copy of a deleted email could be stored on a back up tape, archived at the NSA, in a log on a proxy server. Parts of an email could be attached to another email and theoretically could still be going around and around and around. After examining the servers, email documents will certainly be saved in computer files, in the trash, and/or in retrievable files throughout the hard drives of everyone involved.

Anyone who has done any troubleshooting knows that there are many computer users who do not organize their computer files and never delete anything. If there is just one person in KR's circle like that, it will be on the user's email server(s). If, for example, KR distributed his PowerPoint presentation, everyone who downloaded it will have it in at least one place, and a record of the event. KR was using his Yahoo account (that's supposedly the most private way to email) with a false sense of security. Loser. There's virtually (pun intended) no such thing as a private email.
This is a vague, but interesting claim.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- Congressional staffers claim a Republican Party lawyer told them that missing White House e-mail may have been deliberately deleted by adviser Karl Rove.

The Republican National Committee, however, said the staffer members mischaracterized a briefing about controversial missing e-mail messages, saying the RNC lawyer was speaking hypothetically, The Washington Post reported.

The White House has acknowledged that the RNC e-mail account, which was set up for political use, was sometimes used for official business and that some of that official e-mail is missing.

Members of Congress denounced the loss of the White House messages, which they had sought in their investigation in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters there was no indication that any crimes were committed in the lost e-mail and said that officials were still trying to retrieve them.

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