US Special Counsel: Does NOT Recall ERASING Files & Refuses To Turn Them Over

U.S. Special Counsel Says He Won't Provide Files
Official Calls Personal Records Not Relevant to OPM Probe

By Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 30, 2007; A03
US Special Counsel: Does NOT Recall ERASING Files & Refuses To Turn Them Over

A U.S. official overseeing a probe of potential White House misconduct declared through a spokesman yesterday that he will not give federal investigators copies of personal files that he deleted from his office computer.

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Through a spokesman, Bloch said he does not recall ordering the erasure of data in the hard drives of laptops used by chief of staff J.R. Sanchez and another top aide who had left the agency. Bloch had asked that the files in his computer be encrypted and moved to a portable "thumb drive," which he carries on his keychain, his spokesman said.

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OPM spokesman Peter Graves said the agency will not comment on an ongoing investigation. Attorneys representing the staff members in the complaints against Bloch cited the latest dispute in calling for his resignation.

"At the time that he initiated this probe of Karl Rove, we thought he was doing this to make himself bulletproof so the White House could not take disciplinary action against him," said Debra Katz, an attorney for the staff members. Bloch denied that charge and said the Rove investigation is the responsibility of his office.


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questioning the imperial force

What? Does the Congress have to hire a damn pick pocket to find out what the hell the Admin is up to?

for Christ's sake .. what a Mickey Mouse operation the whole of Washington is...

and this would not be considered illegal in Bush World.

they aren't secret, government security issues and Leahy should haul him in court and make him produce them immediately or jail him under the inherent contempt....Damn it they have to take a stand. March 2009 will be too late everything will be gone.

after all. Gotta hide this from George.... :rofl:

From 2001-2003

If you have enough faith, you don't have to remember anything.

What else is new with this band of fakers and liars?

nowhere else in life can you get away with such shit.

The fact that it continues, and the press doesn't BARBECUE them for doing it over and over pisses me off.

Add to this the fact that the Congress doesn't call them on it, and I start living up to my name. This type of thing might get me a promotion from Captain Angry to Major Angry.

You say the computer wasn't a government computer. You say, and I quote:



What you fail to mention, after expecting us to beleive that your "personal" laptop contained absolutely no DOJ-related files, is why did you have the machines of your two aides erased? Why would their personal PCs need cleaning unless they caught the same virus that you caught? If they had the same virus, where did they get it? Are you expecting us to beleive that you conducted no DOJ-related business with your aides via their computers, yet you all caught the same virus? You and your two aides. How did all of you get this virus? World of Warcraft?

Among them?