Luskin (Rove's lawyer) on Fitzgerald's knowledge of Rove's emails:

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SORRY IF THIS HAS BEEN POSTED, I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS AND HAVEN'T SEEN THIS:


The prosecutor probing the Valerie Plame spy case saw and copied all of Rove's e-mails from his various accounts after searching Rove's laptop, his home computer, and the handheld computer devices he used for both the White House and Republican National Committee, Luskin said.

The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, subpoenaed the e-mails from the White House, the RNC and Bush's re-election campaign, he added.

"There's never been any suggestion that Fitzgerald had anything less than a complete record," Luskin said.

Any e-mails Rove deleted were the type of routine deletions people make to keep their inboxes orderly, Luskin said. He said Rove had no idea the e-mails were being deleted from the server, a central computer that managed the e-mail.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003011.php

different info from this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x647646

[BOSSHOG]

1. Thanks for posting

Are they trying to confuse us? rove deleted emails, but fitz was able to copy them? Que? Oh and karl had no idea. Well he is a poorly educated representative of the conservative movement in America.

[underpants]

5. NO Fitz did say that emails were missing- Ashcroft gave them 24 hrs. to clean

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=634445&mesg_id=634445

It Appears that Ashcroft Gave the White House 24 Hours to "Clean Up" Their Files Before A Memo Was Sent to Save Documents: Who Will Investigate the Justice Department for Potentially Facilitating Obstruction of Justice?

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/02_ashcroft...

She stated that at the request of the White House, the DOJ deferred for 24 hours the request that all documents, email, logs be held and preserved in the investigation of the Plame outing.

NPR legal correspondent, Nina Totenberg: Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy. Yesterday I talked to a former justice department official who wondered to me why the White House had asked the Justice Department if they could wait a day, earlier this week, before directing the White House staff to preserve all phone and email records, and why, similarly, the Justice Department had agreed to let the White House wait that day. In the last analysis career people can't make some of the decisions that will have to be made, like whether to call a reporter before a grand jury. The Attorney General under Justice (Department) regulations is required to make that decision. A career person can't make it. And if a leaker is identified and not prosecuted it could raise problems with the CIA. Will the agency believe that a decision not to prosecute was made fairly, or will it, as one former Justice Department
official put it to me, open a chasm of distrust between the two agencies. As I said no administration likes to open itself up to outside investigators. And the temperature isn't that hot yet, despite that poll you cited at the beginning, but it could get that hot, and we just can't know right now whether the temperature will get that hot for a long time and make it impossible to continue the course that the administration now has chosen
to take.

Many major media outlets continue to ignore story of missing White House emails
Tue, Feb 7, 2006 12:33pm EST
http://mediamatters.org/items/200602070004

Last week, Media Matters for America documented how most media outlets failed to report that special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the lead prosecutor in the CIA leak case, wrote -- in a letter to defense attorneys for former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- that numerous White House emails from 2003 are missing from White House computer archives. A further review by Media Matters has found that most major media outlets have continued to ignore this story; specifically, no reports on the missing emails have been found on any of the three major broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS), The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, or the Reuters wire service.

[mod mom]

8. Mr. Ashcroft needs to receive a subpoena!

and perhaps the IT guys for the RNC.

[underpants]

10. He is busy teaching Loyal Bushie's at Pat Robertson's Regent Univ. (Va. Beach)

http://www.alternet.org/rights/50408/

Regent has assiduously cultivated close ties to the administration and its Republican outriders. Gonzales's predecessor, John Ashcroft, is currently cooling his heels at Regent as the school's "Distinguished Professor of Law and Government." Christian right super-lawyer Jay Sekulow, who also teaches at Regent and shares a Washington office with Ashcroft, participated in regular briefings with the White House on court appointments. In 1998, he leased a private jet through Regent to fly Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to speak at the school's 20th anniversary (Though Sekulow regularly argues cases before the Supreme Court, he apparently did not view hobnobbing with Scalia as an ethical breach).

[understandinglife]

11. All of them ...

Recommend.

:hi:

[myrna minx]

2. Thanks for this. n/t

[dogday]

3. Oh Yes, Ruskin with all his credibility steps forth

and makes it all better.... Have we not been through this before?

[Bitwit1234]

4. I lie, he lies, they lie

have I covered all the republican talking points.

[peacetalksforall]

7. They were out of the gate liars, took the lead, kept the lead, and now?

Thanks for your post - I needed that deep belly laugh.

[lonestarnot]

9. And it's LIARS by 1/2 mile!

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6. Since Fitz began his investigation in 2003, I assume Karl was kind enough to

provide him with all pertinent info on these servers since 2003, on which 95% of his emails went through. right?

Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald began an inquiry in December 2003 into whether the exposure of Plame's status was a violation of federal law

-snip

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102001487.html