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President Bush's aides are lying about White House emails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy suggested Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041207A.shtml

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Democrats challenge White House on lost e-mails

Toronto Star

04/12/07

The White House’s claim that e-mails sent on a Republican Party account might have been lost was challenged Thursday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, who quipped that even his teenage neighbour could find them. ‘They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!’ Leahy shouted from the Senate floor as the dispute over the firing of federal prosecutors continued at a high pitch. ‘You can’t erase e-mails, not today. They’ve gone through too many servers,’ said Leahy, D-Vt. ‘Those e-mails are there; they just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.’ … White House officials insisted the administration was making a genuine effort to recover any missing e-mails that had been sent on an account sponsored by the Republican National Committee. … The Justice Department, meanwhile, prepared to release more documents detailing the decisions leading up to the firings of the eight prosecutors. The department has already given more than 3,400 pages of e-mails, schedules, memos and other documents to congressional panels...

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/202613


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Key Democrat Accuses Officials of Lying About E-Mails
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/13/495/



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