Leahy: "Like the famous 18-minute gap..key documentation has been erased or misplaced."

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/04/leahy_plays_the.html

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Just before the vote, Leahy used strong language on the Senate floor, comparing the Bush White House to Richard Nixon's Watergate White House, because staffers say some emails relating to the U.S. Attorneys firings have gone missing.

"Now we are learning that the 'off book' communications they were having about these actions, by using Republican political email addresses, have not been preserved," said Leahy.

"Like the famous 18-minute gap in the Nixon White House tapes, it appears likely that key documentation has been erased or misplaced. This sounds like the administration's version of the dog ate my homework. I am deeply disturbed that just when this administration is finally subjected to meaningful oversight, it cannot produce the necessary information." Leahy continued, "This Administration has worn out the benefit of the doubt and undermined whatever credibility it had left. The American people are right that they are entitled to full and honest public testimony of the White House staff responsible for this debacle."

The vote in the Judiciary Committee was by voice, but Republicans on the Committee stressed that Leahy should allow the Department of Justice to produce testimony and documents before actually using the subpoenas.

"It's a bad precedent to be subpoenaing the Attorney General," said Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz. "Some people would do it in a political way."

[Stephanie]

1. At what point does this become a criminal matter?

They've violated the archiving laws and destroyed evidence. When does the FBI get involved?

[ThomWV]

2. I've Been Saying For Days Now - The E-Mails Will Be Their Downfall

Exactly like Nixon's tapes ...

[bdamomma]

4. I hope so, this has got to stop.

[DCKit]

6. It was obviously a simple mistake

They deleted the evidence along with all those ads for boner pills and penis enlargement targeted specifically to Repukes.

[aquart]

7. And, let's remember, we never found out what was on that erased tape.

But it destroyed Nixon anyway.

[me b zola]

3. Is there a medical proceedure...

Is there a medical proceedure to assist John Kyle to remove his head from his ass?

[Senator]

15. Yes, it's Cranial-Rectoscopy -- But...

...we need to get the DC Dem Impeachophobes (like Leahy) into the clinical trials first.

There is at least some hope for those sufferers.

Kyl's case has long been at the irreversible stage.

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[Cha]

5. "Some People"...haven't we heard

enough of that, senator kyl? If the ag is lying his head off then we need to subpeona his ass.

I wondered when this was going to happen..that they just wouldn't produce the evidence that would expose how they've been lyin' and thievin'.

[bdamomma]

8. Thank you Senator Leahy

for recognizing us and not ignoring us like some people do in the WH.


The American people are right that they are entitled to full and honest public testimony of the White House staff responsible for this debacle."

[lovuian]

9. "Mishandled" is just another word for shredding the evidence

Its almost like Congress tells them what to shred and they shred it

destroying evidence is against the law right???

[RedEarth]

10. KR.... great, I'm glad he's drawing that comparison..........

it damn sure was the first thing I thought of.

[Warpy]

11. Then subpoena hard drives

and hire an information retrieval specialist.

You don't think anything ever gets completely erased from a hard drive, do you? There are programs that will do it, but they're not selective and it takes days to wipe a drive.

[Initech]

17. And even if they are deleted...

They HAVE to have backups somewhere of all that stuff, right? There's no way that a backup drive will completely miss some files.

[Hestia]

12. Congress Must Issue Orders to Confisticate RNC Hard Drives Immediately

Congress Must Issue Orders to Confisticate RNC Hard Drives Immediately

Apparently, the RNC, provided cover e-mail addresses for White House staffers to use so as to avoid federal record keeping requirements. Now we have news that the RNC routinely deleted these emails.

It is essential that congress immediately, today, issues orders to confisticate RNC hard drives to prevent further purges of records, and to prevent the hard drives from being wiped at a deeper level, since some deletions can be retrieved.

White House spokesman Scott Stanzel reported that 22 Whitehouse employees used RNC emails, including Karl Rove and a number of his assistants.

The only way to insure that RNC operatives do not electronically remove all vestiges of the records is to impound the machines. This is eerily familiar, like the erased audio recordings that Nixon Secretary Rosemary Woods tried to explain, as I mentioned in my March 22nd article Looking For Another Rose Mary Woods.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_070412_congress_must_issue_.htm

[jsamuel]

13. my question is: Is the RNC super-deleting these hard drives as we speak?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. I've been mentioning this for years.

Subpoena the fucking hard drives.

[K8-EEE]

16. FISA, and now Presidental Records, remember the RULE OF LAW

HYSTERIAL THE GOP PIGS WERE WHINING ABOUT DURING THE MONICA LEWINSKI SCANDAL??? SO WHY ARE THEY ALLOWED TO BLOW OFF ANY LAWS THEY DON'T CARE FOR.