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All Those Missing White House documents...

Melissa McEwan: The dog ate our e-mail.
April 13, 2007  |  
 
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As Litbrit mentioned last night, the White House has admitted: 1. Using a shadow email system set up through the Republican National Committee. 2. Allowing 22 White House officials to maintain email addresses on this system. 3. Possibly some staffers "used the political account to communicate about official White House business." 4. Possibly those email accounts were used to discuss the prosecutor purge. 5. Possibly some of the emails from those external accounts, possibly including the possible emails about the prosecutor purge, were "lost."

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is neither impressed nor fooled: "This sounds like the administration's version of the dog ate my homework. I am deeply disturbed that just when this Administration is finally subjected to meaningful oversight, it cannot produce the necessary information."

You and me both, Patty.

What remains to be seen is whether ...

Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.

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