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Fitzgerald admits White House may have destroyed some emails relevant
to CIA leak case
RAW STORY
February 1, 2006
RAW STORY has acquired a letter from Patrick Fitzgerald to Vice
President ***** Cheney's former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis Libby, who was
indicted for allegedly obstructing justice and other charges for his
role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
The New York Daily News' James Meek reported this morning that "CIA
leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald collected 10,000 pages of documents
- including the most sensitive terrorism memos in the U.S. government
- from Vice President Cheney's office, he said in court papers
released yesterday.
Libby's lawyers are seeking classified material to aid their defense,
which many legal analysts see as an attempt to force the prosecutor's
hand in dropping the case or reducing certain charges in the interests
of national security.
Meek added:
"Fitzgerald, who is fighting Libby's request, said in a letter to
Libby's lawyers that many e-mails from Cheney's office at the time of
the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House
policy."
The relevant page of that letter follows.
http://rawstory.com/images/other/fitz-destroyed.jpg
RAW STORY will upload more of Fitzgerald's letter shortly.
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The pot begins to boil again.
Harry
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