Today's Hypocrisy Alert

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, gets today's, or perhaps this moment's the way hypocritical statements pop up, first Karl Rove Hypocrisy Award for his call to the White House to make sure they record for posterity ALL White House emails.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A California Republican congressman has called on President Obama to put in place a system that ensures all White House emails be preserved even if official business was done through private e- mail accounts.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, made the request in a February 19 letter to White House Counsel Greg Craig.

Issa specifically mentioned the new administration’s brief use of Gmail accounts after Obama was sworn in last month, as they waited for the official White House e-mail accounts to become active.

“As you know, any e-mail sent or received by White House officials may be subject to retention under the Presidential Records Act (PRA),” Issa wrote Craig in the letter.

[...] A White House spokesman told CNN Thursday that all staff were told to forward any official correspondence to their White House e-mail accounts, and added that private e-mail accounts are no longer being used.

You may recall how the Bush White House got rid of the email recording system put in place by the Clinton Administration so that they could allegedly keep embarrassing information secret. If the level of hypocrisy in the Republican Party weren't so staggering it would be funny.