Charge Sampson, Fire Rove, Impeach Bush!

Here and above is a four minute video of the first Whitehouse response to the “millions of missing e-mails” report issued by the group called the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

What’s crazy about the Whitehouse’s response is that they aren’t denying it. They just said they didn’t do it on purpose. Think about that… If we assume the Whitehouse deliberately deleted incriminating e-mails, then the risk of being caught deleting them is less dangerous then the contents of the e-mails being made public.

Under what circumstance does that make sense given the SHITSTORM this is becoming? What could be in those e-mails? The minimum guess is that they were using the political RNC accounts to conduct official Whitehouse business, a violation of the Hatch Act. Anyone found doing this must be statutorily fired, we’re looking at you Rove.

Probably more likely, the deleted e-mails had evidence that the Whitehouse was in close consultation regarding the firings of the eight ousted U.S. Attorneys. The e-mails could show that Karl Rove initiated the idea and Alberto Gonzales and his staff carried out the work.

Newly released e-mails show that Kyle Sampson's testimony in the Senate Judicary Committee is incorrect. Sampson said,

"With the exception of Bud Cummins, none of the U.S. attorneys was asked to resign in favor of a particular individual who had already been identified to take the vacant spot. Nor, to my knowledge, was any U.S. attorney asked to resign for an improper reason. U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and may be asked to resign for almost any reason with no public or private explanation."

From Here

If there were any lists or discussions of Bush friendly attorneys to take the spots of the to-be-fired attourneys, There would be a case for perjury. According to new e-mails Sampson pointed to five Bush friendly replacements for working U.S. Attourney's months before the firings (Here).

Worse yet the e-mails could contain things we can’t even imagine. The behind the scenes, underground, e-mails of Karl Rove to the inner circle of the Bush Administration? Imagine what those are full of. Specific plans to capitalize on 9-11 in political speeches leading up to the war, Instructions to create the Rumsfeld led “Office of Special Plans” to ‘create’ intelligence to sell the war, who knows maybe memos from Cheney commanding pressure be put on Iraq's Governemnt to give away their oil to western oil companies. If it’s shit like that, we’re talking impeachment, or at least we need to be talking about impeachment.

But we may not even need crazy resurrected e-mails to get an impeachement. It’s a crime just to have them disappear like this. The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 makes all records of the office of President and Vice President the property of the Public. It charges the President himself with the responsibility of keeping those records. The mere fact that “millions” of e-mails are missing may be enough to impeach the President in violation of this act. I don’t know if its impeachable, but perhaps they could establish a pattern.

"Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, disclosed last year that some White House e-mails in 2003 were not saved as standard procedure dictated."

"Robert Luskin, personal attorney for Rove, told CNN Friday that he "has no reason to doubt" Fitzgerald's assertion that some White House e-mail was missing."

From Here

Seems to me with a little digging thanks to subpoena power, the congress can get elbow deep into scandal. And the congress seems like its up to the challenge,

"Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused the White House of trying to hide messages on the Republican Party system related to the firing of the U.S. attorneys, which has stirred up a hornet's nest on Capitol Hill."

"Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused the White House of trying to hide messages on the Republican Party system related to the firing of the U.S. attorneys, which has stirred up a hornet's nest on Capitol Hill.

"You can't erase e-mails, not today," said Leahy, D-Vermont. "They've gone through too many servers. They can't say they've been lost. That's like saying, 'The dog ate my homework"

From Here

Being able to prove intent on a high level might be impeachable, not to mention what we would find out if some hacker or tech-wiz digs up those e-mails. So dig, Dig for Impeachment!