Four years of Rove emails 'missing'

[ck4829]

The White House has acknowledged it cannot find four years' worth of emails from chief political strategist Karl Rove. The admission has thrust the Democrats' nemesis back into the centre of attention and poses a fresh political challenge for President George Bush.

The administration has acknowledged that some emails missing from Rove's Republican Party account may relate to the firing of eight US prosecutors last year. The Democratic-run Congress is investigating whether the firings resulted from political pressure by Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales and the White House.

For Democrats, the missing Rove emails is one more chance to pound away at their favourite target, the architect of Bush's 2000 and 2004 presidential victories and all-around White House political fixer.

Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has compared the missing emails to the 18-minute gap on Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes. Fellow Democrat Senator Charles Schumer says the White House message to Congress is: "We are stonewalling."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/four-years-of-rove-emails-missing/2007/04/15/1176575661900.html

[Snotcicles]

1. He must be one scared SOB. nt

[magellan]

2. Well good, at least they've got the WH's message

"We are stonewalling."

What are they gonna do about it? And have they locked down the servers/computers/handhelds yet so the traces don't disappear too?

[mediaman007]

3. There is no way that they should be missing..

Anything missing has to be intentional! I don't care what's in the documents, he/they have no right to remove them. "Cuff him, Dano!"

[Solo_in_MD]

4. Its a Title 44 violation, but no one can come up with what the penalty is

Note that he only had to submit to the archival system those that pertained to WH buisness and were covered under the Presidential Records Act (Title 44)