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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:01 AM
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Cheney's Office Destroyed E-mails In Violation Of Federal Records Act
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has now posted a series of studies to help us zero in on just what’s missing. It will come as no surprise to most that the big offender is the men at the center of the most virulent scandals, and the missing email traffic relates just to those dates in which a federal prosecutor would have the most interest. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office destroyed its emails, in violation of the requirements of the federal records act and potentially criminal law.

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The missing Cheney emails fit a pattern that suggests intentional rather than accidental destruction. They all occur on days on which, considering contemporaneous press reports, the Vice President or his staff members were in the news and would likely have been communicating on the subjects relating to the press coverage. The most persistent themes are the outing of Valerie Plame and Cheney’s secret dealings with a group of oil and gas executives who were directly influencing national energy policy.........

more at:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002219
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:03 AM
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1. Cheney: Who's gonna stop me??? Sneer.
I don't need no stankin laws or prosecutors
to tell me what to do!

I just slap annnoying gnats or ignore them.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:07 AM
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3. Cheney to TRUTH...."GO FUCK YOURSELF"
I hope they come up with a series solution and indictment
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:07 AM
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4. absolutely - and they will keep thumbing their nose at the laws until
the Dems grow a spine. What do they have to lose - absolutely nothing - and the riech-wingers love their arrogance.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:06 AM
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2. Memo to Congress: Impeach
Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 09:07 AM by havocmom
or you're all fired.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:09 AM
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5. I'm sorry world but our vice is committing treason almost daily it seems
why is he not arrested. In earlier times he would have already stretched a rope or had his heart shot clean out of his worthless ass fucking body. Damn this pisses me off to no end
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VP505 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:11 AM
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6. Well isn't that special?
I am sure the Judiciary Committee will take immediately action, like sending him one of those STRONGLY WORDED letters.:sarcasm:
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:17 AM
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7. and will he be prosecuted??
of course not.
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jcla Donating Member (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 09:41 AM
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8. Must have been the fire in his office...
IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY!
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