The Political Chase

Fitzgerald: White House Withheld Info

Now this is a real surprise. I’m just shocked.

I noted earlier that Scooter Libby’s lawyers were seeking information from Patrick Fitzgerald regarding Valerie Wilson’s CIA classification and other items. The New York Daily News reports that Fitzgerald may be seeking some information as well.

Fitzgerald, who is fighting Libby’s request, said in a letter to Libby’s lawyers that many e-mails from Cheney’s office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy.

Josh Marshall is more specific than the Daily News:

Fitzgerald’s letter says that “we have learned that not all email of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system.”

Worthy of a little probing I think.

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