http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_1"We are aware of no evidence pertinent to the charges against defendant Libby which has been destroyed," Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to the defense team.
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But the prosecutor added: "In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all e-mail of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system." His letter was an exhibit attached to Libby's demand for more information from the prosecution.
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The only way this is possible is to destroy the daily backups. This is the whitehouse, they are going to take daily full backups of the communications systems; that is where they are shining us on. A full set of tapes or drives would not be stored at the whitehouse, that wouldn't be the safest place for them. If they are destroyed, lost, or for any other reason information removed off it didn't happen by whoops it happened on purpose. They have to go to them to do it.