Evidence

Emails Contradict Testimony, Show Gonzales Picked Replacements Before Attorneys Were Fired... Political Allegiance Was Weighed In Choosing Replacements

New York Times April 13, 2007 08:22 PM

A Justice Department e-mail message released on Friday shows that the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for United States attorneys nearly a year before they were dismissed in December 2006. The department has repeatedly stated that no successors were selected before the dismissals.

The Jan. 9, 2006, e-mail message, written by D. Kyle Sampson, who resigned last month as the top aide to Mr. Gonzales, identified five Bush administration officials, most of them Justice Department employees, whose names were sent to the White House for consideration as possible replacements for prosecutors slated for dismissal.

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Removing Embarrassing Emails Wouldn't Have Been Easy For White House Staffers

McClatchy April 13, 2007 06:04 PM

If Karl Rove or other White House staffers tried to delete sensitive e-mails from their computers, experts said, investigators usually could recover all or most of them.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating whether the White House or the Republican National Committee erased "a large volume of e-mails" that may be related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

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Millions Of Emails May Be Missing