Posted on 04/14/2007 5:50:09 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) --
The fight over documents has gone to red alert. The White House acknowledges it cannot find four years' worth of e-mails from chief political strategist Karl Rove. The admission has thrust the Democrats' nemesis back into the center of attention and poses a fresh political challenge for President Bush.
The administration has acknowledged that some e-mails missing from Rove's Republican party account may relate to the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors last year. The Democratic-run Congress is investigating whether the firings resulted from political pressure by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the White House.
For Democrats, the missing Rove e-mails is one more chance to pound away at their favorite target, the architect of Bush's 2000 and 2004 presidential victories and all-around White House political fixer.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has compared the missing e-mails to the 18-minute gap on President Nixon's Watergate tapes. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the White House message to Congress is: "We are stonewalling."
The White House chalks it up to just another outbreak of Democratic Rove rage. "My experience has been that any time Karl Rove's name is mentioned, it adds to the ammunition, regardless of merit," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.
Only Dick Cheney raises the same kind of anger — and there is not much they can do about the vice president, short of impeachment.
The Rove connection is sure to be raised when Gonzales testifies Tuesday before Leahy's committee. His appearance, Democratic and Republican lawmakers say, may determine whether the longtime Bush friend can hold onto his job.
Democrats plan to focus on the Justice Department's contradictory statements about the firings and Gonzales' shifting explanations of his own role.
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Rove Rage... LOL!
Yada yada yada.
Only if you’re a Dem can you have ammo without evidence.
If Rove is giving the Dem’s ammo, perhaps it is so they can continue to shoot themselves in their collective asses. ;)
let me guess:
bush-boy will bend over again for the
democrap media.
Krauthammer on the Fox All-Stars last night said this isn’t a fishing expedition but a whaling expedition—the Democrats are as obsessed with getting Karl Rove as Captain Ahab was with the white whale.
CAST:
Jason Alexander as Patrick “Leaky” Leahy
Jerry Seinfeld as Charles “Schmucky” Schumer
SCHMUCKY: So everybody in the Bush administration is a subject in the investigation?
LEAKY: Right.
SCHMUCKY: And it’s about nothing?
LEAKY: Absolutely nothing.
SCHMUCKY: So you’re saying, we go in to the caucus, and go to the Judiciary Committee, and tell them I got this idea for an investigation about nothing.
LEAKY: Yeah. I think we really got something here.
SCHMUCKY: What do we got?
LEAKY: An idea.
SCHMUCKY: What idea?
LEAKY: An idea for the investigation.
SCHMUCKY: I still don’t know what the idea is.
LEAKY: It’s about nothing.
SCHMUCKY: Right.
LEAKY: Everybody’s doing something, we’ll do nothing.
SCHMUCKY: So, we go into Judiciary, we tell them we’ve got an idea for an investigation about nothing.
LEAKY: Exactly.
SCHMUCKY: They say, “What’s your investigation about?” I say, “Nothing.”
LEAKY: There you go.
(A moment passes)
SCHMUCKY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.
This reminds me of the episode of Farscape “Crackers don’t matter” where they were dealing with secret messages that don’t exist.
“Humans are Superior!”
On the entire email issue, would anyone really be suprised if government to avoid scandals destroy their harddrives at the end of each week. This could account for some of their budgeting.
Neener Neener Neener....that’s what I’d say to the dems
Ex nihilo multus.
Much Ado About Nothing.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Don't forget to throw in NO KNOWN UNDERLYING CRIME and we have a trifecta.
I wonder why the AP doesn’t just print Dem press releases verbatim and write “me too” at the end. It would be more honest.
I wounder if the emails will end up under the rose law firm records in the white house /sarcism>
“The White House acknowledges it cannot find four years’ worth of e-mails...”
Have they checked Sandy Berger’s socks??
Every time the Dems ask for more documents, I would like to see our Representatives ask to see the Sandy Burglar documents that were purloined and destroyed related to the 9-11 commission hearings. Shove it down their throats!
General policy is (should be) to delete most e-mail after a few days.
They should be required to include in their byline how many years they have voted ‘rat.
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