OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. WH's email gaps coincide with Plame Leak, Iraq War Investigations

Apparent gaps in White House e-mail archives coincide with dates in late 2003 and early 2004 when the administration was struggling to deal with the CIA leak investigation and the possibility of a congressional probe into Iraq intelligence failures.

The gaps — 473 days over a period of 20 months — are cited in a chart prepared by White House computer technicians and shared in September with the House Reform and Government Oversight Committee, which has been looking into reports of missing e-mail.

Among the times for which e-mail may not have been archived from Vice President Dick Cheney's office are four days in early October 2003, just as a federal probe was beginning into the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity, an inquiry that eventually ensnared Cheney's chief of staff.

Contents of the chart — which the White House now disputes — were disclosed Thursday by Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the House committee, as he announced plans for a Feb. 15 hearing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080119/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_e_mail

And ask them when the archiving and back-up systems changed and who gave the orders to make the changes and just follow the trail upwards.

It is OBVIOUSLY obstruction of justice. Anyone with a degree from a matchbook cover university can see that!

from the techies, he can't claim executive privilege.

"National Security". Right.

This is far more serious than lying about a private tryst.

Break every law and then destroy evidence - that's Bushco's modus operandi.

In fact, our government is looking as compromised as the Soviet Union's government was before it fell.

and give some idea of how long cover ups were underway before they broke.

Interest in Plame on Google peaked first in July then here:

Iraq WMD, The Outting of Valerie Plame, The Downing Street Memos and
The White House's Obsession for Going to War...
Brad Blog - Oct 28 2005 - http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001956.htm