E-Mail Uproar Gives Dems ammo vs. Rove

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/16/562/

E-Mail Uproar Gives Dems ammo vs. Rove
Associated Press staff

WASHINGTON - The fight over documents has gone to red alert.The White House acknowledges it cannot find four years’ worth of e-mails from chief political strategist Karl Rove. The admission has thrust the Democrats’ nemesis back into the center of attention and poses a fresh political challenge for President Bush.

The administration has acknowledged that some e-mails missing from Rove’s Republican party account may relate to the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors last year. The Democratic-run Congress is investigating whether the firings resulted from political pressure by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the White House.

Target: Rove
For Democrats, the missing Rove e-mails is one more chance to pound away at their favorite target, the architect of Bush’s 2000 and 2004 presidential victories and all-around White House political fixer.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has compared the missing e-mails to the 18-minute gap on President Nixon’s Watergate tapes. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the White House message to Congress is: “We are stonewalling.”

The White House chalks it up to just another outbreak of Democratic Rove rage. “My experience has been that any time Karl Rove’s name is mentioned, it adds to the ammunition, regardless of merit,” White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.

Only Dick Cheney raises the same kind of anger - and there is not much they can do about the vice president, short of impeachment.

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[Warpy]

1. Either they and the server broke the law by scrubbing their mail

from the system and the backups, or they forgot the backups and will now be very embarrassed about what is in them.

I know they're fighting tooth and nail to keep the Congress away from those servers.

Either way, they're guilty of breaking a very important law, or they're guilty of breaking several other very important laws.

This is why Fitzgerald stopped with Scooter. He was given the runaround on the emails sent during a very critical period.

[babylonsister]

2. I heard Perino say there were probably back-ups today; makes me

wonder what she'll say when they're all discovered to be scrubbed.
And how will they keep all this under wraps, if that's what's happening? There can't be that much allegiance to these criminals, I'm thinking.