Day After (3/9/05) ROVE Testified In Plame Affair-"Someone Went In & Spent 6 Hrs Playing With Files"

[kpete]

It looks like it's possible that someone got into the PST files and altered them before Fitz came looking for the Hadley email.

Hadley’s Email
By: emptywheel Saturday June 20, 2009 5:33 pm

Revealed in a document turned over to CREW:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/OAP00000167.pdf

On the morning of October 15, Karl Rove testified before the Plame grand jury for appearance number 3. He justified testifying to Fitzgerald by handing over the email Rove purportedly sent Hadley on July 11, 2003, just after he leaked Plame's identity to Matt Cooper.

Either that day (the file searches appear to be dated October 15) or the next, someone did a series of searches, apparently looking for Hadley's emails; these searches appear on pages 47-49. Here are the searches in the order of which they were last opened (here's the spreadsheet if you want to play along).



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On March 9,2005, at 5:34 PM, someone opened the two searches saved with an October 22, 2004 file name and the search, 1st Hadley results. And then, in the middle of the night (3 AM), someone opened the filed titled Hadley file.

Now, I'm going to have to let William Ockham (who first pointed these searches out to me) or MadDog or someone explain the intricacies of this. But it looks to me as if within a day after Rove testified about his mysteriously discovered email to Hadley, someone went in and spent 6 hours playing around with the PST file that had Hadley's emails in it. They may have done so again a week later (or those files could have been renamed). And finally, when it became clear that Judy and Cooper would have to testify, someone was looking at them again.

more:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/hadleys-email/

[grasswire]

1. never forget that Bushies stripped the TANG files...

...prior to his campaign for 2000. I suspect this is an old, old habit with them.

[bleever]

2. Interesting discussion right now at the link

between Marcy and assembled techies.

[kpete]

3. good evening

and yes!
great place, lots of free flowing thoughts, love it,
peace, kp

[bleever]

7. It's always

nice to see you, and I hope your sky
is as open as the suggestion
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in your sig pic
and I think
it is.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Time for a new Grand Jury

Where is Fitzgerald these days?

[chill_wind]

5. K & R. My favorite site for watching legal/investigative

discussions. A lot of incredible digging there. I used to check out the Balkinization bloggers a lot, but not so much since Marty Lederman has gone to the OLC. I keep looking for his imprimatur on the Obama decision making processes re: the Bush War Crime admin from his past writings and I'm having trouble divining them..

Very interesting stuff here.

[Senator]

6. K&R