Earlier today, we referenced the deposition of Susan Ralston by the House Oversight Committee. Excerpts of the transcripts -- not just links to the pdf documents -- have now been posted at The Gavel. Definitely worth a read. We're including two sections about Rove's e-mail usage:
BY MS. AMERLING: When did Karl Rove first start usìng his RNC e-mail account to send and receive e-mails from the White House?
A From day one.
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Q For how long did Mr. Rove continue to use his political e-mail account to send e-mails from the White House?
A The entire time that I worked for hìm.
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Q For how long did Mr. Rove continue to use his polit’ical e-mail account to send e-mails from the White House?
A The entire time that I worked for hìm.
Q Do you know how frequently he used this account?
A It would be hard for me to quantify how much. He used it a lot.
Q Did Mr. Rove have a BlackBerry provided by the RNC?
A I don’t know if the RNC actually provided the equìpment. It was a political BlackBerry, I don’t know if the BlackBerry came on — if he had it during the campaign — it was a political BlackBerry.
Q Did you ever see him use it?
A Yes.
Q When did he first start using this BlackBerry?
A I don’t know when he started using it in the White House. My best recollection is that he had it at the very beginning, but I can’t say exactly when it started.
Q Do you know how often he used it?
A He used it daily.
Q Many times over the course of a day?
A Yes.
Q Did he have a White House BlackBerry, an official White House BlackBerry?
A No, he did not.
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Q Beyond Mr. Fitzgerald’s requests, were there other requests from other investigators for Mr. Rove’s e-mails?
A The only — there may have been, but the only other major investigation that I recall specifically was related to Enron.
Q Do you know when that would have been?
A I believe that was in 2001 sometime.
Q And you think in 2001 that Mr. Rove searched his e-mails to respond to a request for investigators relating to Enron?
A He or I searched.
Q And that search included a search of political e-mails sent over the political account?
A Correct.
Q Were other White House officials aware that Mr. Rove in 2001- was providing e-mails from his polìtical accounts to investigators who were looking at Enron?
A I believe so, because all of the documents that we collected were then turned over to the White House Counsel’s Office.
And then there's Rove other private, but not RNC, e-mails:
Q Do you know what hi s personal e-maìl account address was?
A It was an AOL account. I don’t remember right now,
Q Do you know whether Ken Mehlman used a political e-mail account?
A You know. Karl also had a “Rove.com” e-mail address .
Q You are referrìng to a personal e-mail address?
A Well, it was — it wasn’t — I don’t know how you would classify it, but it was a “Rove.com” e-mail address. There were — I can’t remember when, but at some point his Rove. com e-mai ls all went to the same political account. So if you sent an account — if you sent an e-maìl to George W. Bush.com or if you sent an e-mail to him at Rove.com, it went to the same place.
Q Do you know why his e-mail was set up that way?
A I don’t.
Q Do you know whether he made any official communications over his Rove.com e-mail account?
A He may have, but I can’t think of — I mean, he may have, because he used it all the time.
Q Do you know whether e-mails sent or received on his Rove.com account were provided to investigators who sought e-mail records from Mr. Rove?
A I believe so. They took his political laptop; and, as I mentioned, that laptop was taken durìng the leak investìgation. All of the e-mails just kind of got funneled into the same potitical server.