I just don't have words to describe the rage that this brings up in me, but I'm gonna try anyway.
A lawyer for the Republican National Committee told congressional staff members yesterday that the RNC is missing at least four years' worth of e-mail from White House senior adviser Karl Rove that is being sought as part of investigations into the Bush administration, according to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
GOP officials took issue with Rep. Henry Waxman's account of the briefing and said they still hope to find the e-mail as they conduct forensic work on their computer equipment. But they acknowledged that they took action to prevent Rove -- and Rove alone among the two dozen or so White House officials with RNC accounts -- from deleting his e-mails from the RNC server. Waxman (D-Calif.) said he was told the RNC made that move in 2005.
In a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Waxman said the RNC lawyer, Rob Kelner, also raised the possibility that Rove had personally deleted the missing e-mails, all dating back to before 2005.
Might this mean that we will finally be seeing Fitzmas sometime this summer? I wonder if any of those missing emails have anything to do with what The Tall Man has been up to since 2003. Dontcha think that Fitzgerald might be interested in finding out if any of these missing emails might have impacted the outcome of his CIA leak investigation? Particulaly what Rove's part in it really was? After all, the period of the missing email convers the entirety of the CIA leak case.
But wait, hold the phone, there's more:
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, accused the White House of lying about the matter. He was joined by the ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), in calling on the White House to join Congress in setting up a "fair and objective process for investigating this matter."
Gee, I wonder what kind of "fair and objective process" they might have in mind? A Special Prosecutor perhaps? And who better to continue this Ongoing Investigation that Scotty McClellan used to go on about so much than the man who began it, and has been conducting it from the beginning. You know who I mean, so say it with feeling, "Fitz!".
Now hold on, don't go away, because today's special offer gives you even more:
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- A presidential spokesman acknowledged that some lost White House e-mails might pertain to the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, as Congress stepped up demands the Bush administration preserve electronic records.
It "can't be ruled out'' that some of the e-mails involved the firings, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters. The administration will "take all reasonable steps'' to retrieve any lost messages and will "certainly ensure that it doesn't happen again,'' he said.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said he doubts the e-mails are lost. "I don't believe that,'' the Vermont Democrat said. "Those e-mails are there. They just don't want to produce them. It reminds me of the infamous 18-minute gap in the Nixon White House tapes,'' he said, referring to recordings produced during the Watergate scandal.
As many as 50 White House officials have used Republican National Committee e-mail accounts to send messages during President George W. Bush's six years in office, California Representative Henry Waxman said today.
Waxman attributed the number to Rob Kelner, the Republican National Committee counsel who he said has told House investigators that the oldest records still on party computer servers date from 2004. Waxman is the Democrat chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
"An extensive volume of White House e-mails regarding official government actions may have been destroyed by the RNC and not preserved by the White House,'' Waxman wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Look friends, all kidding aside, how can we as a people abide shite like this? We have got to demand impeachment. These guys have gone so far over the line we can't even see where the line is anymore. If this isn't Obstruction Of Justice I can't imagine what is. I suppose if we had a Justice Department that actually cared about the law more than politics, and an Attorney General who wasn't spending five hours a day practicing to lie to Congress, then we might expect something to be done about this. But this Justice Department has been so corrupted by the Loyal Bushies that I'm of the opinion that we must pressure Congress to confront this criminality directly in the way outlined in our constitution.
As the late Johnnie Cochran might have said, "If it's not a reach, we must impeach".
(originlly posted at amahchewahwah)