CREW: Millions More Missing White House Emails

[rumpel]

sorry if this is dupe...

By Paul Kiel - April 12, 2007, 3:38 PM

From Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:

In a startling new revelation, CREW has also learned through two confidential sources that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost over five million emails generated between March 2003 and October 2005. The White House counsel’s office was advised of these problems in 2005 and CREW has been told that the White House was given a plan of action to recover these emails, but to date nothing has been done to rectify this significant loss of records.

To be clear: these are emails controlled by the White House -- not emails on RNC servers, like those other lost emails.

When I spoke to CREW's Naomi Seligman Steiner, she could only say that the missing emails were generated over a period of "hundreds of days within that two year period." Furthermore, it's not clear whose emails they are, or why those emails are missing as opposed to others. "We're dealing with people who are only willing to tell us so much," she said.

But apparently this issue came up in the course of Plame investigation. Among the exhibits attached to CREW's new report, Without A Trace: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records, is a January 31, 2006 letter from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to Scooter Libby's lawyer about pre-trial discovery.

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[ixion]

1. my, how...convenient

:grr:

[Roland99]

2. Trying to cover up their crimes of greed, sloth, gluttony, etc.

Hang 'em high!

[rumpel]

3. I think this is big time criminal

[On the Road]

4. Somehow, I Think This is Going to Make the Democrats Dig Deeper

what an f'ing farce. Missing emails, my ass.

[HereSince1628]

5. The fingerprints are Cheney's not Rove's. Really. I'm not kidding

Cheney's ability to run the pResidency by remote control depends 1st, upon no one seeing the strings on the marionette, suspension of disbelief by partisans is secondary, deniability of being the puppeteer last of all.

Cheney in his willy ol Wyoming chainsaw massacrist lineman mentality has been covering the trail since 1992.

[jakem]

6. Can we get a technically competant investigator in on this or what?!

Find those emails and IMPEACH.