Email missing from Cheney's office on day White House told to preserve documents in CIA leak

Email missing from Cheney's office on day White House told to preserve documents in CIA leak
Nick Juliano
Published: Monday January 21, 2008

Emails gone on day Bush said he'd 'take care of' leaker
Ironically, Cheney's office is missing emails from the very day President Bush told reporters he'd "take care of" whatever staff member had actually leaked the CIA agent's name.


New report shows archives gone on several key days in Plame investigation

Among the sixteen days for which email are missing from Vice President Cheney's office is Sept. 30, 2003, the same day the day the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced they were investigating who outed former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

That morning, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales ordered the president and the vice president's staff to "preserve all materials that might be relevant" to an inchoate Justice Department probe.

"We were informed last evening by the Department of Justice that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee," Gonzales wrote in a terse Sep. 30, 2003 email. "The Department advised us that it will be sending a letter today instructing us to preserve all materials that might be relevant to its investigation. Its letter will provide more specific instructions on the materials in which it is interested, and we will communicate those instructions directly to you. In the meantime, you must preserve all materials that might in any way be related to the Department's investigation."

The analysis was released over the weekend by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), a D.C.-based ethics watchdog.

The White House said in a court filing last week that backup tapes, which contained archived copies of the e-mails, were recycled as part of a policy the White House had in place until October 2003.

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Email_missing_on_day_White_House_0121.html

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30837

National News Analysis for Missing White House Office E-mail = http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/White%20House%20Office%20Bullet%201.doc

National News Analysis for Missing Office of the Vice President E-mail = http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/Office%20of%20the%20Vice%20President%20Bullet%202.doc

White House Office

National News at the time the White House e-mail went missing
(**** = Dates specified by Waxman in January 17, 2008 letter to Fielding)

Note for all dates below: It is primary season for the 2004 presidential elections.

December 15, 2003:

The New York Times News Summary of the Day:

Saddam Hussein, once the all-powerful leader of Iraq, was arrested without a fight by American soldiers who found him crouching in an eight-foot hole at an isolated farm near Tikrit, haggard, dirty and disoriented. News of the arrest sent joyous Iraqis into the streets.

President Bush hailed the capture as a turning point in the history of Iraq, ...

...............

National News Analysis for Council on Environmental Quality E-mail
National News Analysis for Council of Economic Advisers E-mail
National News Analysis for Office of Management and Budget E-mail

We can supplement that by contacting the press everywhere we can and telling them to let up on Bush-Cheney and to stop looking into possible crimes they've committed.

Lefty Liberals should start INSISTING that Congress and the MSM leave our little boy-king alone.

Then maybe -- just to spite us -- they'd start doing their jobs.

Scumbag

He always "takes care" of his cronies....