OK-- let's try to make some sense of this Karl Rove email thing.
1. It's against the law (the Hatch Act) to use government resources (time, email accounts, e.g.) for political purposes.
2. As a result, it has been common practice for Executive Branch officials to use non-government email services (such as an RNC or Yahoo email accounts) during their lunch or off-duty hours to conduct their political business.
3. If you're an ethically-challenged person and have at least half a brain (Karl Rove, perhaps) then you definitely want to conduct your shady (electronic) business somewhere that isn't being monitored by the government and/or regulated by federal law (using a White House email account, e.g.). Although doing so isn't strictly against the letter of the law, it is against White House policy-- at least it was in the Clinton white house (George W. has refused to release his white house's policy on this issue)
4. So it doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to conclude that certain aforementioned ethically challenged people-- under the guise of complying with the Hatch Act-- would begin to conduct all of their government business using non-government email accounts.
According to some sources, Karl Rove has conducted an estimated 95% of his correspondence using a non-government email service (his RNC account)-- and let's all be honest here-- to avoid being held accountable for his words and actions. And why would one think Rove would be interested in avoiding disclosure of his words/actions? How else do you explain all of the unusual deleting/archiving activity going on with his email correspondence?
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