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Karl Rove, Missing E-Mails, and the CIA Leak Probe
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ABC News' Ariane de Vogue and Theresa Cook Report: Karl Rove's private attorney shot back at allegations today that the White House's acknowledged e-mail slip-up could in anyway affect his client's culpability in the CIA Leak probe.
"The suggestion that this is going to result in some kind of re-opening of the [Valerie] Plame investigation is ludicrous," said Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin.
Rove, who was cleared of any wrongdoing in the investigation in June of 2006, had been subpoenaed for all of his e-mail accounts by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. The investigation looked in to whether an administration official had leaked the name of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, and resulted in the perjury and obstruction conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Scooter Libby.
Luskin explained, "Fitzgerald issued subpoenas for the White House, President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and the Republican National Committee (RNC). There was no issue for documents for this period of time," he said, referring to a time frame from which the White House is missing e-mails.
"Karl volunteered to image all the hard drives: the RNC hard drive, his own personal home computer and his Blackberry. The FBI performed the imaging. Fitzgerald was interested in documents for the spring, summer and fall of '03. They were copied the summer of '04 and given to Pat Fitzgerald without conditions," Luskin continued.
The White House’s recent confusion stems from it's mishandling of old e-mails from staffs' separate e-mail accounts -- one government-issued, the other maintained by the RNC.
White House spokesperson Dana Perino acknowledged today, "we screwed up and we are working to fix it."
She says the White House is still figuring out the e-mail confusion. "…there are a lot of things that we don't know," she said. "It's not a comfortable position [for the White House to be in]," she said.
But despite the admission, Perino insisted, "we have no indication that there was any improper use of these emails."
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Yeah and were still winning the war! the economy is great!And What Illegal aliens??? If anyone continues to beleive anything that this administration says they need to have their motives Questioned.Some are calling for impeachment, but I suspect that charges of High Treason would be closer to what's needed . And NOT by THIS administrations PUPPET Attorney General!
Posted by: Johnny Everett | Apr 15, 2007 5:04:09 PM
This is the first time a Whitehouse
spokesperson has publicly admitted that "there are a lot of things that we don't know..." Too bad the things they DO know include: outing active CIA agents, lying to the UN, letting Karl Rove be in charge of imaging hard drives...Makes me think that G. Gordon Liddy was Rove's mentor in dirty tricks!
Posted by: Lynn Harris | Apr 15, 2007 6:54:11 PM
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