how dumb do they think we are?

Does anybody really believe those GOP emails are really "lost"? It's just too precious that the Republicans set up an entire parallel computer network in the White House to avoid government regulations that official emails be preserved. But for Dana Perino to get up there and say, "shucks we just don't know what happened to those emails and we shur do hope we's can find 'em" is particularly rich.

Senator Leahy isn't an IT expert. But neither am I, and even I know that emails aren't really "lost". To disappear, you need to make an effort to delete and erase and hide and obscure them. And even then, I bet they'll turn up. But Rove and his team just want to delay that day, preferably until January 2009.