Congress demands e-mails, Justice says ask Rove camp

[Ghost in the Machine]

Published: 5/16/07, 10:00 PM EDT

The Justice Department on Wednesday told an angry Senate Judiciary Committee chairman it does not have documents described in a subpoena that demands all materials relating to Karl Rove's possible involvement in the U.S. attorney firings.
Instead, it said, Rove's lawyer must have them.

The response from a top Justice Department official came just hours after the chairman, Vermont Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy and the panel's top Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, chastised Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a letter for ignoring the subpoena's Tuesday deadline.

"You ignored the subpoena, did not come forward today, did not produce the documents, and did not even offer an explanation for your noncompliance," the two senators wrote in the letter, sent Tuesday night.

"The committee intends to get to the truth."

A top Justice Department official responded Wednesday, saying a further Justice Department search yielded only two documents -- internal communications sent to Rove and others about a planned news conference in New Mexico by dismissed U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.

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[aquart]

1. Maybe they used carrier pigeons.

Criminals.

[spindrifter]

2. Every day I think I've seen the

most outrageous shenanigans from the Gonzales Injustice Department, only to face a new show-stopper like this one.
How could they possibly not have the emails that were subpoenaed? They either wrote them or received them. You know how you use the search function--you can enter sender or recipient--or maybe we are all missing something...like the truth.

[tyedyeto]

3. Only TWO documents??

How stupid do they believe our Senators and Representatives are?

We've been hearing time and again about numerous, perhaps hundreds or more, emails between Rove's operatives using RNC email addys.

Now we are down to 2 documents?

WTF??

[Trillo]

4. Reads like a run around. n/t