Congress requested ALL documents pertaining to the USA firing. The House Judiciary committee has published the documents produced by the DOJ in response to their inquiry.
DOJ Purgegate Docs
18 Kossacks have completely extracted the emails from these documents. From the email trail, we now have evidence of a systematic cover-up by the White House and DOJ. A majority of emails from Kyle Sampson following the firing have been hidden from Congress. A substantial portion of the emails of Brian Roehrkasse, DOJ spokesman, are being withheld. All emails from Rove deputy Sarah Taylor, and a critical email from Rove deputy J. Scott Jennings have been suppressed. This cover-up is clearly planned, and wilfully executed by the DOJ and White House. Congress and the American People should be INCENSED.
Make no mistake, Kyle Sampson is at the heart of the US attorney Firing Scandal…. And at the heart of the coverup.
In the HJC document dump, there are 9229 pages of documents containing 2101 unique emails to 5793
recipients. I have previously diaried the implications of the email trail, and evidence for missing documents.
Last week, the DOJ revealed that they are withholding 171 documents “in the custody of Kyle Sampson”.
These documents are all subsequent to the firing. If there is a cover-up, then the clues are to be had here.
In the publicly released documents from 12/8/06-3/8/06, there are 80 unique emails sent by Kyle Sampson to 254 recipients. Over the same period, the DOJ has withheld 118 unique emails sent by Kyle Sampson to 239 recipients.
They are hiding 60% of Kyle Sampson's emails.
Interestingly, the DOJ is also hiding 100% of the emails sent after the firing by Sarah Taylor, Karl Rove’s deputy, and 25% of the email sent by J. Scott Jennings, another Rove deputy. The withheld Jennings email, dated 2/28/07, is addressed to Kyle Sampson, Karl Rove, Fred Fielding, Dana Perino, and Sarah Taylor.
We also learn that the DOJ is withholding 100% of emails sent after the firing by James Comey, the prior Deputy AG, who drew up a firing list substantially different than Sampson’s, apparently one based on merit, rather than White House/RNC priorities: TPM-Comey. Perhaps when Comey testifies before the HJC tomorrow, we will gain more insight into what his emails contained that the DOJ needs to hide from the American people.
The other interesting data in the withheld documents is the revelation that 32% of the unique emails sent by DOJ spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse are being withheld. 9 of 28 Roehrkasse emails to 49 of 109 recipients are sequestered in the custody of Kyle Sampson. Roehrkasse seems to be another youthful player in the US Attorney scandal. He is 33 years old, graduating from Colorado State with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1996. He worked on the campaign staff for Bush 2000, then served stints in the Department of Transportation and as press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security before becoming the DOJ spokesman. He was no doubt being fed talking points by the players in the scandal, and now we see a substantial portion of his emails withheld. Considering he has released numerous reports suggesting that AG Gonzales was truthful in testimony, one wonders if his hidden emails refute this assertion.
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It is now obvious that Kyle Sampson was not forthcoming when he testified in front of the Senate. It is time to get the hidden documents into the light of day, and get Kyle Sampson back under oath.
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Updated: corrected total email numbers. 12:34pm central, 5/2/07; again on 5/3/07 10:29am central for same.