CREW Asks Fitzgerald To Re-Open Investigation Of Rove In Plame Leak (FITZ LETTER GRAPHIC)

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/13/rove-missing-emails

Rove’s Lawyer Acknowledges Rove Emails From 2003 Missing From White House Archives
In its report documenting the White House’s destruction of five million emails, CREW also reminded us that in January 2006, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald informed the Scooter Libby defense team that some of Rove’s emails from his White House account in 2003 were not saved as required by federal law. The key portion of Fitzgerald’s letter:

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The controversy surrounding Rove this week has involved his RNC email account. The RNC acknowledged that, while they instituted a new policy in 2004 to preserve emails, there appear to be no records from White House senior political adviser Karl Rove until 2005, leaving open “the possibility that Rove had personally deleted the missing e-mails.” According to the RNC, the Committee took action specifically and singularly against Rove in 2005 to keep him “from deleting his e-mails from the RNC server.”

With respect to Rove’s White House account, federal law requires the preservation of all such messages. Missing emails could be a violation of the Presidential Records Act. The revelations first reported by Patrick Fitzgerald, now given new life because of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, raise questions about whether the public is getting the full story on these or other White House scandals.

UPDATE: Christy Hardin Smith has a statement from Patrick Fitzgerald’s spokesman:

I had e-mailed Patrick Fitzgerald’s spokesperson last night to see if he had any comment on Mr. Rove’s alleged deletion of e-mails from the RNC server during the time that the investigation would have been ongoing. I just got a response from Randall Samborn that, indeed, the office was aware of the reporting on this matter, that he had received not only my questions but a number of others from news organizations, but that he would be “declining comment (of course) to questions about this matter.”

UPDATE II: CREW is asking Patrick Fitzgerald to re-open investigation of Rove’s role in the Plame leak, in light of the missing emails.

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[understandinglife]

1. Happy to be Rec # 1 on this thread!!!

[rateyes]

2. Happy to be rec #2....

the hits just keep on coming!!!

:kick:

[rateyes]

3. Kicking again...

ok everybody, vote it up!!

[lovuian]

4. Fitz its in your ball court

another Grand Jury looms
Did Rove obstructive justice and perjure himself

[fooj]

5. Hopefully this is just what Fitz needs to nail those rat bastards to the wall!

[Uncle Joe]

6. Thanks for the thread Hissyspit

Kicked and recommended

[mmonk]

7. Fingers crossed.

Definitely will help the civil trial as well if Fitz agrees.

[KoKo]

8. WOW....thanks HissySpit for posting this....have been wishing for

this. There's so much new stuff coming out that points back to the old but with more verification that I've hoped Fitz would "reconvene" that Grand Jury!

:thumbsup:

[Hissyspit]

9. Fitzmas should be annual event? n/t

[garybeck]

10. Prediction: Fitz will not do anything about this.

Call me skeptical but I don't think Fitzgerald is interested in reopening this case, with anything short of a confession.

I think he new emails were deleted before and still let Rove slide.

I think he could have indicted Rove and probably Cheney too, but for whatever reason he chose not to.

[lovuian]

13. You maybe right but with Libby's appeal looming

and a Congress investigating as long as he has the Right Answers for Congress and the courts
then it may be over

but in the law
its a bunch of ifs

and still the question for Fitz
were you aware Rove violated the Hatch Act?

I would like to know that answer

Fitz its in your court now
I believe he will HAVE to summon a New Grand Jury

[garybeck]

14. "as long as he has the Right Answers for Congress"

you're missing an important point - he's not going to answer Congress's questions. He's already turned down one invitation to appear before Congress. I believe he will turn down every such request and will never appear before congress unless he's subpeona'd and I think that is highly unlikely unless we're in the middle of an impeachment hearing.

someday DU's love affair with Fitzgerald will end when people realize he's not the bulldog the media makes him out to be and he basically failed us. An high crime was committed, which included the President, the Vice President and several others committing treason, and he's comfortable with charging a subordinate with perjury and letting it all go.

I know there are those who say, it's all part of a plan to get Libby to flip, and turn in all his buddies. If that happens, then I'll eat my hat and I'll say "you were right" a hundred times and I'll also rejoice in celebration. My question is, if it doesn't happen, will all the DUers who have been on the Fitzgerald bandwagon ever wake up and realize he failed the american people?

[Hissyspit]

11. .

[radfringe]

12. See my :TINFOILHAT:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x652584