see old article i had in my files!!
and the media is just catching onto this now when so many of us were emailing and calling them demanding truth and articles about it at the time?? they should all be ashamed ..and then celled us tin foil hats then..or just bloggers..well many of my internet group were calling writing letters and screaming about it when this was going on ..we were all screaming..shredders in the white house!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/100903A.shtml Click here: t r u t h o u t - White House Lawyers Reviewing Evidence Before Justice Department
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Bush Aides Will Review Leak Notes
By David Jackson
The Dallas Morning News
Tuesday 07 October 2003
White House's decision to give first look to its lawyers riles Democrats
White House lawyers will review phone logs and other records supplied by presidential aides before turning the documents over to the Justice Department officials conducting the investigation into who leaked a CIA undercover operative's identity, officials said Monday.
The disclosure inspired new Democratic calls for an independent inquiry.
"To allow the White House counsel to review records before the prosecutors would see them is just about unheard of in the way cases are always prosecuted," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on NBC's Today show. "And the possibility of mischief, or worse than mischief, is very, very large."
Administration officials said the White House counsel's office may need up to two weeks to organize documents that some 2,000 employees are required to submit by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The documents must also be reviewed for national security or executive privilege concerns and to ensure the filings are responsive to Justice Department requests for information, White House aides said. The department is investigating whether Bush administration officials exposed a CIA operative's identity to reporters and a columnist, Robert Novak.
Bush: 'Criminal action'
President Bush underscored his concern about the leak Monday, telling reporters: "We're talking about a criminal action."
The president said information would be submitted to the Justice Department "on a timely basis," calling the investigation "a very serious matter, and our administration takes it seriously."
"I'd like to know who leaked," Mr. Bush added. "And if anybody has got any information, inside our government or outside our government, who leaked, they ought to take it to the Justice Department so we can find out the leaker."
White House officials are required to turn in any documents they may have related to the principals in the matter, including former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, his wife, Valerie Plame, and any reporters who were contacted about the couple.
White House spokeswoman Ashley Snee said she could not put a timeline on when the documents might be turned over to the Justice Department but said the review would be expeditious.
"It's going to be done with the intent of getting to the bottom of this," Ms. Snee said. "This is almost 2,000 people."
Mr. Schumer and other Democrats have called for an outside special counsel, questioning whether Attorney General John Ashcroft can fairly investigate his patrons at the White House.
Mr. Bush defended his Justice Department, saying, "These are ... professional
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ashcroft gave rove plenty of time to destroy his records... as did tenet! from july 14th to late september!
and do see from my files how rove and acroft were tied to each other!!
http://www.democracynow.org/static/roveashcroft.shtml The Ashcroft-Rove Connection: The Ties That Blind
By Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill and the staff of Democracy Now!
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Rove is best known as the driving force behind Bush's taking of the presidency, but he also worked for Ashcroft over the course of two decades.
"It goes all the way back to the mid 1980's when John Ashcroft first ran for governor and then when he ran for the United States Senate against Mel Carnahan," says Moore. "Karl was so intimately involved."
Not only did Rove work for Ashcroft in the 80s, but he was one of the main forces behind Ashcroft's controversial appointment to the job he currently holds, attorney general. Rove lobbied intensely for his former employer's nomination after Ashcroft lost his senate seat to a dead man, the late Mel Carnahan.
While Ashcroft was not Bush's first choice for attorney general, Rove reportedly told Bush that spilling some blood over the nomination of the fiercely right-wing Ashcroft was "a no-lose proposition."
Just as George W. Bush profited handsomely from the building of a stadium for his Texas Rangers baseball team, Karl Rove cashed in from the successful campaign in St. Louis to get a stadium built. The governor who signed the legislation?
John Ashcroft.
Now attorney general, Ashcroft is refusing to hand over the reigns of the criminal investigation of his political ally, former employee and longtime advisor, Karl Rove.
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