"Missing E-Mails" - FOUND Day AFTER - Libby's Lawyers Learned "NEWS" That Fitzgerald Was On To Them

[kpete]

January 23, 2006
By: emptywheel Wednesday February 27, 2008 11:26 am


January 20, 2006: McDevitt and friends determine that there are gaps where the missing emails should be.

January 23, 2006: Fitzgerald informs Libby's lawyers "via Telefax and regular mail" that:

In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system.
http://static1.firedoglake.com/28/files//2008/02/060123-fitz-to-libby-no-emails.pdf

January 23, 2006, 11:18 AM: McDevitt writes Susan Crippen,

Someone needs to fill in some of the blanks.

January 23, 2006, 1:19 PM: Crippen responds,

SIS has "filled in" the blanks.

January 24, 2006: Someone in the White House writes a document claiming to have found the missing emails.

According to a document dated just four days later that was shown to Committee staff, but not provided to them, the White House team recovercd 17,956 e-mails from these individual mailboxes on the backup tape and used these as their basis to search for e-mails responsive to the Special Counsel's request.

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But does anyone else find it odd that the WH "found" the missing emails the day after Libby's lawyers learned that news of them would imminently become public?

more at:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/january-23-2006/

[annabanana]

1. I was keeping close track at the time and no.. It wasn't "odd" . .

It was exactly the kind of behavior I had come to expect from this crime syndicate they call the "Bush Administraion"

[lovuian]

2. yep

And where are those emails now???

[lonestarnot]

3. what annabanana said!