U.S.: Senate Torture Probe Uncovers Missing Emails

[kpete]

Source: IPS

U.S.: Senate Torture Probe Uncovers Missing Emails
By William Fisher

NEW YORK, Feb 27, 2010 (IPS) - The Justice Department investigation into whether the authors of the George W. Bush-era "torture memos" were guilty of professional misconduct did not have full access to the emails used by those lawyers and by other key figures in the investigation, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former counsel to the Vice President David Addington.

The missing emails came to light during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday. Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, described the vanishing emails as "suspicious".

He urged the sole witness before the committee, Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler, to investigate further to determine who deleted the emails and whether they could be recovered.

The email issue recalled the 2006 investigation into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys during the administration of President George W. Bush, and whether the White House pressured the Justice Department to cover up the details of the firings.

Administration officials insisted that millions of emails from senior Bush figures including political advisor Karl Rove were irretrievably missing. The emails were later recovered. The disclosures were important factors in the resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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[shraby]

1. YES!!!!!!!

Now if they do something with them.

[jtrockville]

2. DOJ never did anything when emails were found in the Plame case

No reason to think they'll do anything when these are found either.

[katandmoon]

3. It's just like DOJ is still being run by Repugs. Oh wait...

[classysassy]

4. DOJ

department of juice.