WH e-mails missing in CIA name case;Relevance to Rove’s involvement

[dajoki]

NBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11150000/from/RL.1/

White House e-mails missing in CIA name case
Relevance to key questions about Karl Rove’s involvement in question

Updated: 9:05 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2006

WASHINGTON - A letter from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby defense team reveals that some White House e-mails from 2003 weren't archived as they should have been.

The year 2003 is significant in the CIA leak investigation. It's the year that CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was allegedly leaked to reporters to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for his failure to buttress administration claims of yellowcake uranium found in Niger, uranium the administration said was earmarked for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, based on forged documents obtained by the Bush White House.

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Fitzgerald's letter was responding to a request from Libby's lawyers for additional documents, e-mails and other correspondence the Libby team says is essential to mount a defense. Lawyers for Libby this week accused prosecutors of withholding evidence the defense team has sought.

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The last paragraph of the letter says, “We are aware of no evidence pertinent to the charges against defendant Libby which has been destroyed.” But it goes on to say, “We advise you that we have learned that not all e-mail of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system.”

The disclosure may or may not be relevant to answering key questions in the CIA leak case — namely who leaked Plame’s name and whether the investigation involves senior White House adviser Karl Rove.

[madaboutharry]

1. What a co-wink-e-dink!!

Thom Hartman is right, these people are running the country like the mafia.

[dajoki]

2. Worse...

at least the mafia has some kind of code.

[windbreeze]

3. Gee, that solution is simple.....

then subpeona the damned computers they were written on, there are programs to bring information back...no matter what effort was made to hide them...oh, I see, that would be a threat to what??? national security???....uh huh....as though outing an undercover CIA agent, was not a threat to national security...
windbreeze

[dajoki]

4. you think Fitz would do that n/t