emptywheel: White House to Restore Emails from Plame Cover-Up Period

[babylonsister]

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White House to Restore Emails from Plame Cover-Up Period
By: emptywheel Monday December 14, 2009 11:48 am


The National Security Archive has released a list of dates for which the White House will restore emails under its settlement agreement.

That list includes almost all of the most suspect dates when email was missing, most notably the period (between September 29 and October 7, 2003) when Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were working on a cover story in Jackson Hole. This is the period, remember, when Libby told Cheney the story he was going to tell the FBI–that he had learned of Plame’s identity from Tim Russert, not from Cheney himself. And it is also the period during which we know Fitzgerald was seeking emails, but did not receive them. (He did receive at least one email, printed out from a hard drive, after the more intense search for emails started in 2005.

I would have liked to see the emails through 2004–when it became clear Fitzgerald would subpoena Judy Miller and Matt Cooper, and when, in response to Rove turning over a key email to Fitzgerald, someone did some highly suspicious searches in the White House email system.

But this is a start, at least.

[Gman2]

1. They thought russert was a wimp. Thought he would just agree.

And what happens if we find everything we thought was true? We posthumously impeach?

[Botany]

2. The outing of Plame was treason period

Cheney, Libby, and company need to be held accountable.

BTW I have a family member who works for the DoD and he had to sign an
agreement that if he ever outed a CIA agent then it was 10 years in federal
prison no ifs ands or buts .... Cheney and Rove signed such agreements too.

so my best guess is that nothing will happen to anybody.

[Canuckistanian]

7. And it was GHW Bush who wrote that law

Poppy was an old CIA man. He HATED political interference in "his" CIA.

[katandmoon]

3. Luckily for Cheney, Libby et al, they will never be prosecuted no matter what they did.

[timeforpeace]

4. Richard Armitage ain't gonna like that, yogi.

[rudy23]

5. I hope I'm very wrong---but we're NEVER going to see anything come of this.

By now, it's clear to me Obama has some sort of a deal in place to protect the Bush regime. Why wouldn't he own them by now if there wasn't? Your average blogger could prosecute the Bush admin 10x over.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. THE RIGHT WINGER WOULD GO INSANE.

PERSONALLY I WANT TO SEE SOME HANGINGS