Email scandal just the tip of the iceberg

The reason this is such an important scandal is because it is the very heart of how a government becomes tied to one political party. Computer systems in general, but particularly email, is the central nervous system of any modern organization. When the servers are off the books and being run out a political office, it means that the soul of the government is no longer "by the people, for the people..." It's by the republicans, for the republicans. If one were, to say, manipulate the terror warning system to blunt the impact of negative news, this is how you would do it. If you were a Secretary of State of a swing state, and you wanted to collude with the party in power to tilt the election, as Kenneth Blackwell may have done in Ohio in 2004, this is how you would do it.

This scandal is misting lemon juice over a map drawn in invisible ink of a corrupt political nervous system. That the emails that have gone missing are almost all from political workers like Mehlman and Rove absolutely stinks to high heaven. We can't afford to ignore this.