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GWB43.com. About that RNC email system in the White House, a knowledgeable reader writes, "On an entirely separate note from these scandals, you might want to consider the Karl Rove/gwb43.com/RNC matter under a slightly different lens. The National Journal had a story in Friday's issue that quoted sources saying 'Karl does 95% of his e-mailing through the RNC system.' Presidential Records and other legalities aside, consider that from an intel perspective. The White House is a huge electronic surveilllance target - and the story about the gwb43.com domain has been out for at least two weeks. Might you suspect that friendly and hostile foreign intel agencies might have picked up on this fact and become curious about the 95% of the government's business that Karl is lobbing outside the system. Maybe they've visited the RNC's servers? I think there could be national security implications here." Not that the office's information security precautions were ever in question. Oh wait. More here.
Update: A Congressional staffer correspondent writes, "While this is an option not open to White House staff, because their servers block such programs, other Executive Branch officials in the various Cabinet Departments are also known to use the various free email programs like Hotmail and Yahoo to email sensitive issues. This is not necessarily because they are doing anything wrong, but because folks are aware that emails sent on the formal servers are archived forever and they do not want their emails to be dredged up months or years later – as is the case today with the Justice Department."