Missing E-Mails-Same Days As Plame Cover-Up & Libby Pardon

[kpete]

The Missing Emails and the OVP Coverup
By: emptywheel Wednesday June 11, 2008 9:32 am

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In other words, a long list of articles and transcripts insinuating Libby was the leaker were not introduced into evidence at the trial. Significantly, this would have the been the media coverage that precipitated Cheney's urgent call to Bush on either October 3 or at the crack of dawn (Cheney's time) on October 4 to get Libby exonerated. And remember--at least on Friday October 3 and Saturday October 4, Libby and Cheney were together in Jackson Hole, devising a story to tell the FBI (which may be why Libby didn't annotate the October 4 article).

Now, perhaps Libby didn't read any of those articles. Or perhaps he didn't collect them in his little "Get Wilson" file. Or perhaps they were turned over as evidence but they were just less interesting to Fitzgerald than the Mike Allen WaPo articles he did introduce (though of course, this list does include one Allen WaPo article). But if you look at the spreadsheet (20MB PDF) of days in which the White House--or offices within it--were missing emails, you see one other possible explanation.

Those were also the days when all of OVP's emails disappeared.

Now, we already knew that the OVP emails had disappeared for precisely the same days as when Libby and Cheney were devising their cover story (Libby claimed to have "found" the note indicating Cheney had told him of Plame's status on October 3, though why he found it in Jackson is beyond me). But now we know that the emails are gone from the period leading up to Cheney's urgent call to have Libby exonerated.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/06/11/the-missing-emails-and-the-ovp-coverup/

[Taverner]

1. Alright - so if the Plame leak wasn't an impeachable offense

Then what the fuck is?????

[bullimiami]

3. by the old standard its a firing squad offense.

thats treason.

[Wizard777]

6. Nope! Reagan did that when he officially declared war on drugs.

Then directed that paramilitary civil war against americans.

[RoseMead]

2. Surprise, surprise, surprise. n/t

[Lugnut]

4. I'm shocked.

Shocked I tell you. :sarcasm:

[DemoTex]

5. As damning as the spread-sheet of Ken Lay sell-orders for 14 months before Enron tanked.

These Bu$hco guys really ARE NOT the smartest guys in the room. One of Ken Lay's electronic trails showed that he was dumping massive .. if not maximum .. quantities of Enron stock every single day that the stock market was open for at least a full 14 months before Enron's collapse. Yet Lay claimed that he had no idea that Enron was in trouble. Maybe Lay taught the Cheney Energy Task force the art of deception, because his stock dumping pre-dated the November 2000 elections by at least three months.

For the new DUers: I knew Ken and Linda Lay very well. I flew them all over the world in a Lockheed JetStar II and Learjet 55 in Lay's pre-Enron days.

[Octafish]

7. Gee. What a coincidence!

Not that it's a conspiracy to obstruct justice, or anything.