Bushies use RNC email accounts for official business

One of the more recent revelations from the House oversight hearings has been that a lot of top administration officials have been given access to Republican National Committee email accounts and use them rather than use the official government email accounts which are subject to archival rules.

...several White House aides “said that they stopped using the White House system except for purely professional correspondence. … ‘We knew E-mails could be subpoenaed.' said one aide.

The Think Progress article provides some examples of administration staffers using the RNC email system to avoid the possibility that Congress would subpoena the emails.

A strong indicator that decisions to use this non-government email system was mostly based on a combination of fear of the emails being subpoenaed and on pure laziness by rushed individuals is that apparently there was no consideration given to the fact that (as Kevin Drum has pointed out) this may eliminate the possibility of using the legal doctrine of Executive Privilege to keep the information in those RNC emails from being given to the Congressional oversight committees. If this were White House policy, then whoever established the policy would have had to pass it by the White House Counsel who would have considered such potential downsides.

Oh, wait. This is not a White House or an administration that "does policy," is it?