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The article mentions the invasion of Iraq (thus far, 1.2 million people slaughtered - 100,000 of them in the first bombings/invasion), and the Plame leak--as two possible subjects of trashed emails. But there are others, including preparations for the rigging of the 2004 election, the pervasive use of torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and secret prisons around the world (which many in the CIA and other national security and military agencies were very concerned about, as to legality as well as morality), and the pervasive use of domestic spying (certainly of anti-war activists, and possibly of journalists, editors, presidential candidates, other candidates, congress critters, state election officials and other office holders)--to name three other potential subjects of 'disappeared' White House emails in 2003.
The NYT suppressed its story on domestic spying during this period (so as not to influence the 2004 election, so they said). (I seem to recall that the actual suppression occurred at the end of 2003--in any case, at some point within the year prior to the 2004 election). The torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib began almost as soon as the Bushites got control of Saddam's prison, but I believe it was intensified in late 2003 (and was on-going throughout that period--and, as we know now, was pervasive in known and secret prisons). (The Abu Ghraib revelations were May 2004, but the use torture, of course, began earlier.)
As for the rigging of the 2004 election, that began in October 2002, with the passage of the so-called "Help America Vote Act"-HAVA (same month as the Iraq War Resolution), and would have been in the planning stages throughout 2003. HAVA was a $3.9 electronic voting boondoggle, to fast-track voting machines, all over the country, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls--a system that would permit Karl Rove, for instance, to calibrate the vote stealing needed to shove the Iraq War and other fascist policy down the throats of the American people, the following year, in the first all-Diebold/ES&S (s)election (2004). It had been tested in the Georgia U.S. Senate race on Max Cleland in 2002 (who had something like a 15% advantage the day before the (s)election, and somehow lost). Now it was going nationwide, and understanding its potential would have been of vital interest to Rove (emails to e-voting corporate execs, like Wally O'Dell, who was CEO of Diebold and also a Bush/Cheney campaign chair?). Rove also had to judge what OTHER measures may be needed (such as black vote suppression in Ohio), to insure a Bush/Cheney 'victory.'
In California, during 2003, the weird recall election that put Arnold Schwarzenegger in office was causing concern about the new electronic voting system (installed by a Republican Secretary of State--Bill Jones, who then went to work for one of the e-voting corporations--Sequoia (third biggest, after Diebold/ES&S)). The new Democratic Secretary of State (Kevin Shelley) was preparing to sue Diebold, for their lies about the security of their machines, and to decertify the worst of those machines (the touchscreens). His lawsuit included a demand to review Diebold's source code. This would have given the game way--and may well have been of immediate concern to Karl Rove. (Shelley was driven from office on entirely bogus corruption charges the following year.) Shelley filed suit against Diebold in May 2004, but his investigation would have been on-going in 2003, and spying on him could have begun as soon as he took office (early 2003).
A fourth subject of 'disappeared' emails might have been the 9/11 Commission. I don't remember it's time-line very clearly, but insulating Bush and Cheney from any real testimony was a great concern of the White House. (They ended up "testifying" in secret--no notes or recording of any kind permitted--TOGETHER, and NOT under oath--to selected commission members.)
These are just SOME of the 2003 Bushite crimes and fascist activities that they might have been sending emails about--or might have included clues in emails to their nefarious plans and coverups, that they would have motive to 'disappear.' Basically, we're talking about a worldwide criminal enterprise, run out of the White House, with 2003 likely being the MOST intensely criminal year--when spying, torture, unjust war, massive looting of our treasury by war profiteers, election theft and treason--and God knows what else--were initiated or heightened to levels beyond anything we have ever seen in this country (or perhaps anywhere else). I've just thought of another--Cheney weapons dealings (including disruptions of illicit weapons investigations). Also, Halliburton's no-bid contracts and vast corruption in military, national security and other contracts in general. (What big money favors were going in and out of the White House during this period?)
The Plame leak, I think, is a black hole in which--if we could only see into it--the nature of this fascist coup would be much revealed. I suspect that the items being blackholed in that case go far beyond the mere treason of deliberately outing, not just a CIA agent, but a key CIA expert in WMD counter-proliferation, and the outing of an entire WMD counter-proliferation program. I think it may include the murder of British weapons expert (and insider whistleblower) David Kelly, in the same two-week time period as the Plame outings. (Kelly began whistleblowing to the BBC in May 2003. He was interrogated at a "safe" house in the first week of July 2003. Plame was outed on July 14, 2003. Kelly was found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances, four days later, on July 18, 2003. And Plame's entire Brewster-Jennings network was then outed on July 22, 2003 (also by Novak).)
Some of these things are so nefarious that it seems crazy that anyone would send emails about them. But people do crazy things, especially if they think their asses are covered, and, as I said, emails can contain clues--dates, time-lines, who was being replied to, who was being cc'ed, etc.--that reveal more than the emails are actually saying. And the Bush Junta's behavior around its emails--in this period in particular--certainly red flags fear of exposure--Karl Rove's use of the RNC email system, to try to circumvent public records laws, being a good example of it, and their baldfaced lie about "technical problems" erasing White House emails is another.
As to our Democratic leaders' incomprehensible slowness and reluctance to hold these malevolent Bushites to account, we can only wonder about their possible collusion with Bushites on some of these crimes. For instance, what about possible emails among Rove, Tom Delay, Bob Ney and Christopher Dodd, about the "Help America Vote for Bush Act"? Or possible references to cooperative Democrats in White House emails--on any of the above? That could certainly slow down investigations, and foreclose both subpoena enforcement and impeachment--by a supposedly Democratic Congress. Fear could well be at work also (fear of spying, fear of blackmail, fear of dirty tricks, fear of death). But collusion must be considered, with so many crimes already known, and so many others clearly lurking beneath the surface. And impeachment doesn't even require crime--just malfeasance or corruption. (In the 1950s, it was a vicuna coat--and Ike's VP was out. Today, multi-billions have gone missing in Iraq, and hardly an eyebrow is raised. It is mind-boggling.)
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