WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. House oversight committee report said e-mail is missing for 51 of the 88 White House aides with Republican Party accounts, CNN reported.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating whether Republican National Committee members used party e-mail for official use.
The White House said there were 50 staff members with party accounts, although the House committee has discovered 88, records for 51 of which have vanished, the report said.
"Whether intentionally or inadvertently, it appears that the RNC has destroyed a large volume of the e-mails of White House officials who used RNC e-mail accounts," the committee report said.
As well, "there are major gaps in the e-mail records of the 37 White House officials for whom the RNC did preserve e-mails," the report said.
White House spokesman Tony Snow declined to comment on the report specifics but said e-mail sent to or from a White House e-mail account was automatically archived.
