Check out this link: http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070618105243.pdf

While I've made no bones about my level of disaffection for this administration, I haven't piled on. I mean, what's the point of beating up an administration that only 1 in 3 has a favorable opinion of the job he's doing? Kind of like impacting an expired equine.

While at this point, there is no evidence that the email was intentionally deleted and/or not retained, there is significant evidence that personnel knew about the presidential record retention policy and what it required back in 2001. There is also evidence that this is why they had and routinely used RNC accounts.

It does add another facet to the pattern of avoidance of oversight and refusal to follow the law or the constitution that this administration has continued to perpetrate.

So lets do a little comparison:

Richard M. Nixon				George W. Bush
- Republican				- Republican
- Gas price = $1.45/gal				- Gas @ $3.25/gal
(corrected for inflation)
- Inherited unpopular quagmire				- STARTED unpopular quagmire
-Tried to get out via Nixon Doctrine				- Is trying to get out by emphasizing training
that places primary responsibility for				of Iraqi police & army
defense with the country in question
- Escalated war by bombing Laos				- Escalated war by instituting "Surge"
and Cambodia
- VP Agnew resigned amid bribery				- Jack Abramoff jailed for bribery
and money laundering charges
- Dick Cheney & Don Rumsfeld				- Dick Cheney & Don Rumsfeld
- Watergate				- RNC email in defiance of Hisch act/Presidential
				Record Retention act, Revealing identity of V. Plame
				in defiance of Intelligence Identities Protection act,
				held personnel as "enemy combatents" without
				warrants in defiance of habeus corpus, Warrantless
				wiretapping in defiance of Foreign Intelligence
				Surveillance act, etc...