Citizens for Ethics in Washington (CREW) has written to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald asking that he re-open the Plame leak case in light of new evidence about Karl Rove's e-mailing habits.
13 Apr 2007 // Washington, DC - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to reopen his investigation of Karl Rove's role in disclosing Valerie Plame Wilson's status as a covert CIA operative in light of recent revelations about missing White House email.
Press reports indicate that Mr. Rove uses a Republican National Committee (RNC) email account for 95% of his communications. In addition, the RNC's counsel has admitted that all of Mr. Rove's emails prior to 2005 have been destroyed. Moreover, the White House has admitted that - as CREW reported yesterday - five million emails are missing from the White House servers. All of this raises serious questions about whether Mr. Rove knowingly destroyed evidence relevant to the Special Counsel's inquiry and whether Mr. Fitzgerald received all relevant documents.
CREW goes on to say that it's quite possible Rove may have destroyed e-mail evidence that could have implicated himself or other White House officials.
Rove's lawyer admitted today that Karl did delete an undisclosed number of e-mails from his questionably legal RNC account, supposedly believing they had been archived.
from the link above:
Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law....
"His understanding starting very, very early in the administration was that those e-mails were being archived," Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said.
A firestorm over White House e-mail practices has errupted recently after it was disclosed that two seperate scandals are in the making:
1/White House aides regularly used RNC-issued e-mail addresses to bypass the official White House computer network
2/The White House official computer network lost at least 5 million emails between 2003 and 2005.