Excerpts LA Times report (same title as above):
Karl Rove and other White House employees were cautioned in employee manuals, memos and briefings to carefully save any e-mails that might discuss official matters even if those messages came from private e-mail accounts, the White House disclosed Friday.
Despite these cautions, e-mails from Rove and others discussing official business may have been deleted and are now missing.
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White House employee manuals distributed in early 2001 made it clear that any e-mails containing discussion of official matters should be preserved.
Redacted copies of White House employee manuals were shown to reporters late Friday at the White House press office on condition that they not be removed from the premises.
But now the WH will be actually making staffers sign a memo saying they understand the regulations concerning saving emails about official business.
It's probably pretty convenient for the Bush administration that they didn't do so before. I'm sure that Karl Rove is just too brilliant to have figured out that he needed to keep copies of his emails before.
Even his boss, the barely literate George W. Bush, loudly proclaimed that he wouldn't be able to email his friends anymore when he got to the White House because all communication had to be saved (hinting that dastardly Democrats or someone would be showing private emails around like dirty laundry they dug out of White House hampers, I guess). If the frat boy figured out it all had to be saved, so what kind of excuse does Karl Rove have?