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Outside email at the White House. A reader who has a security role at a federal agency writes, "On the issue of using outside/unofficial e-mail address from official sites, the CIO at [redacted] has expressly forbade the practice for security reasons as it is all too easy to put sensitive information in an e-mail. ... Needless to say, hearing that the WH does not mandate that practice and lets [Rove] do 95% of his e-mailing from a blackberry, presumably with access to an unofficial address, is quite shocking. Still find it absolutely amazing that his clearance has not been revoked." If you watched the Waxman hearing with the White House security official on the Plame matter, one might have picked up that essentially that office was terrified of the White House political masters, and didn't dare consider holding them to the kind of security standards most everybody else in the government is held to, out of a desire perhaps for job security.