Former DOJ-ers-"Deliberate Effort To Destroy" Yoo's-Missing Torture Emails

[kpete]

Former DOJ-ers Doubtful On Missing Yoo Emails Story
Zachary Roth | February 26, 2010, 2:37PM

An internal Justice Department report on the Torture Memos noted that investigators were told that key emails from John Yoo had been deleted and could not be retrieved. But several former DOJ staffers expressed intense skepticism that the emails could in fact have been rendered unrecoverable -- at least without a deliberate effort to destroy them.

"It's hard for me to believe that those emails weren't kept -- unless somebody didn't want them kept," one career Justice Department lawyer, who left in 2005, told TPMmuckraker.

Another former DOJ lawyer echoed that notion: "When I heard the emails were not recoverable from Yoo, I was surprised," he said.

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility wrote in a report, released last week: "We were told that most of Yoo's records had been deleted and were not recoverable," and said that their probe was "hampered" by not having access to the emails. That has sparked calls from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the National Archives, the New York Times, and CREW for an investigation into the missing emails.

more:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/former_doj-ers_doubtful_on_missing_yoo_emails_stor.php?ref=fpblg

[pleah]

1. K&R

[ThomWV]

2. Leahy has displayed a remarkable ability to do nothing with strong evidence of wrongdoing

So I suppose its foolish to expect anything other than more of the same.

[EFerrari]

3. Yep. The Art of Doing Nothing. Welcome to Honduras.

Except in Honduras, the people are still out on the street.

[OnyxCollie]

4. Getting anthrax sent to your office has that effect.

[Uben]

5. A few people could destroy them permanently......

...and the one I suspect who did the job died in a suspicious small plane crash.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Actually many can...its much easier than many claim *IF* you control the server

[SpiralHawk]

7. Republicon family values: torture, occultism, lying

Ptoooey....

[ThomWV]

8. So basically the question is to Holder: Where are the Emails, or, what systematic fix has been made

because if he can't produce the emails he had better be able to say what has been done to the system to make sure no future emails are ever lost.