TPM has the new e-mail

[deminks]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002778.php

As reported earlier on ABC News, here is the email that shows that the whole U.S. attorney purge scheme originated with Karl Rove. It was released this evening by the Justice Department.

In the email, which has the subject line "Re: Question from Karl Rove," Kyle Sampson, who was then at the Justice Department, discusses with then-deputy White House Counsel David Leitch the idea of replacing "15-20 percent of the current U.S. Attorneys," because "80-85 percent, I would guess, are doing a great job, are loyal Bushies, etc."

"f Karl thinks there would be policitical will to do it, then so do I," Sampson concludes.

Sampson's email was in response to Leitch's relaying of Rove's query about how the administration would handle the U.S. Attorneys. As paraphrased by Colin Newman, a legal aide in the White House counsel's office, Rove asked "how we planned to proceed regarding US Attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc."

here is the e-mail from the TPM link:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/sampsonrove-email/

From #1 "it would be weird to ask them to leave before completing at least a 4 year term."

[robinlynne]

1. Interestingly enough, all (almost all) the emails available are to and from Sampson,

who resigned as soon as he handed over the emails. i would bet any amount of money that there are just as many emails between all the other participants which aren't out. .....
and certainly some to or from bush.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I started a thread yesterday questioning if Harriet was the architect of this

idea. She never struck me as someone who'd decide to off 93 Republican US A's...just not in her make-up to do it. But it wouldn't surprise me if they used Harriet and Sampson to run the conversation between the WH and DOJ...plausible deniability for the real actors in this crime.