Four Years' Worth Of Rove E-Mail Missing

Rep. Waxman To Gonzales: "Extensive Volume Of White House E-Mails Regarding Official Government Actions May Have Been Destroyed"…White House: "Can't Be Ruled Out" That Some Emails Involved Firings

Washington Post Michael Abramowitz April 13, 2007 08:51 AM

A lawyer for the Republican National Committee told congressional staff members yesterday that the RNC is missing at least four years' worth of e-mail from White House senior adviser Karl Rove that is being sought as part of investigations into the Bush administration, according to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

GOP officials took issue with Rep. Henry Waxman's account of the briefing and said they still hope to find the e-mail as they conduct forensic work on their computer equipment. But they acknowledged that they took action to prevent Rove -- and Rove alone among the two dozen or so White House officials with RNC accounts -- from deleting his e-mails from the RNC server. Waxman (D-Calif.) said he was told the RNC made that move in 2005.

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