Who Warned Gonzales of the FBI Investigation

[realFedUp]

thanks, www.democrats.com

__Who Warned Gonzales of the FBI Investigation, Allowing Him to Give White House Aides a 'Heads Up'?

"First rule of scandal is that the cover-up is worse than the crime. With that in mind, we ought to be looking to see if any effort was made to prevent the CIA from requesting a Justice Dept. investigation . And we ought to find out who warned the White House Counsel that something was up, so that Alberto Gonzalez could warn the WH staff in his now famous e-mail... A similar 'Heads-Up Gate' cost Roger Altman his job during the Whitewater scandal. 'Testifying before the Senate banking committee in February 1994, then-deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman...conceded he had given top White House officials, including then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, a 'heads-up' on nine RTC criminal referrals that in one instance targeted Clinton's 1985 gubernatorial campaign, and named the Clintons as witnesses in others' (From CNN's History of Whitewater). Six months later, Altman was back before the Senate Banking Committee. Three weeks after that, he resigned in disgrace."
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[Wwagsthedog]

1. Had to be ashcroft

Either him or someone he directed to contact gonzales. ashcroft and rove are close buddies from a way back.

[grasswire]

2. keep in mind...

...that the number two man at Justice is a secret society brother of George W. at Yale. Robert McCallum. Acting deputy attorney general, the man who will oversee this if Ashcroft recuses himself.

[hang a left]

3. IMO White House knew it was coming

and I betcha they tried everything they could to derail it. Oh please can we have a special prosecuter, please.

[realFedUp]

4. kick

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. CIA filed complaint to DOJ back in May...WH had plenty warning

what 4/5 months to shred before Asscrack gave WH the order a few days ago to perserve all documents, e-mail and phone records....

[msmcghee]

6. Is shredding that easy?

Are there not logs and such that are maintained in a way that they can have corrections (that are explained) but not deletions?

I would think that cleaning up after the necessary communications would not be that easy - even if there are no tape recorders.

[BeFree]

7. It's all electronic

Interesting that records from the State and Defense Depts., are also being examined.

Now, Imagine that someone deleted an email at the White House but a record of it is still at State ....

How hard is it to download a computers files? Takes a coupla minutes, I guess. Man, how cool would it be to read the WH's emails? Gotta be some good dirt in 'em. Remember how AWOL said he didn't use email because it wasn't secure enough? Too bad <g> he couldn't keep the rest of the WH from using it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. they need not shred...just shift it over to "classified"

[realFedUp]

9. kick again