Amateur Hour at the White House Part II

We've written before about the burgeoning scandal coming out of the White House regarding use of private email accounts by senior White House staff, as a way to hide damning corresspondance.  Now Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chair of the Government Oversight and Reform is ordering the White House not to destroy the accounts or their contents because initial investigations "have uncovered evidence that White House staff have used nongovernmental e-mail accounts to conduct official business." 

If members of the Executive Branch are using private email accounts to do official work, it could amount to violation of the Presidential Records Act - 95% of Karl Rove's email traffic is reported to be conducted through non-.gov email accounts owned by the RNC.  And, if they claim that the traffic on those accounts isn't part of their official work, then they will have a hard time arguing for any kind of executive privilege.  Maybe this time Rove et al have been a little too sneaky for their own good.