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babylonsister Fri Apr-13-07 08:07 AM
NYT: Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors
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Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: April 13, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/washington/13emails.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1176473088-xEfxTC4BSgH0BOWXp0hL1w

WASHINGTON, April 12—The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys.

The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House, as Democrats stepped up their inquiry into whether Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush used the e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee to circumvent record-keeping requirements.

It also exposed the dual electronic lives led by Mr. Rove and 21 other White House officials who maintain separate e-mail accounts for government business and work on political campaigns — and raised serious questions, in the eyes of Democrats, about whether political accounts were used to conduct official work without leaving a paper trail.

The clash also seemed to push the White House and Democrats closer to a serious confrontation over executive privilege,.......

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