Washington Whispers editor Paul Bedard at U.S. News & World Report says the controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors and what administration officials knew about it is renewing concerns among Bush aides about e-mailing.
A week after e-mails in the U.S. attorneys case became a main focus of the probe by congressional Democrats, several staffers said that they stopped using the White House system except for professional correspondence.
"We just got a bit lazy," said one aide. "We knew e-mails could be subpoenaed. We saw that with the Clintons but I don't think anybody saw that we were doing anything wrong." Bedard reported that some aides said they bought private e-mail accounts and are relying on text-messaging on personal cellular phones.
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