Executive Privilege?

As usual, the mighty TPM 'empire' is doing stellar work tracking the multitudinous loose ends that keep unraveling on the scum&scandal ridden Bu$hCo White House. The latest to start showing its face is the intriguing news that WH aides (actually, multiple Admin branches from the sounds of it) were using outside clients to handle their emails; at least those they didn't want subpoena-ed. IMHO, this may be the equivalent to Alex Butterfield's admission to Congress that the Nixon WH taped EVERYTHING. It has two main thrusts: one, that there were things they were trying to hide, which gives rise to the whole smoke/fire line of thought, and two) that any arguments of Executive Privilege are blown out the window for these 'outside' emails, and that may provide enough ammo to let even recalcitrant Congressional types demand the stuff that might still be covered by whatever tatters of EP the WH may be able to articulate. It's just stunning the mendacity (and amazing stupidity) of these folks.

"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."

Yeah, right.

(from USNews, via TPM)

UPDATE: Kevin Drum weighs in