And my suggestion is the old latex gloves type full body probe!!!


Published on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 by Associated Press
Prosecutor Sought for White House Probe

by Peter Yost

An advocacy group on Monday sought a criminal probe of the White House over millions of possibly missing e-mails, saying someone may have deliberately deleted them to conceal involvement in a potential crime.

In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said the White House also may have violated two federal record-keeping laws, including the Federal Records Act, which carries criminal sanctions for unlawful destruction.

CREW, which is suing the Executive Office of the President, said over 10 million e-mails from March 2003 to October 2005 are missing. The period coincides with the runup to the Iraq invasion and the leaking by at least three top White House aides of the CIA identity of Valerie Plame.

The White House referred questions on the letter to the Justice Department, which declined immediate comment.

Asked last month about the possibility of missing e-mail, the White House said there is no reason to believe that any e-mails or other data are missing.

Two years ago, the prosecutor in the CIA leak probe of the Plame affair publicly revealed that the White House had a problem with its e-mail system, and that not all e-mail for the offices of the president and vice president in 2003 had been preserved through the normal archiving process.

In its letter to Mukasey, CREW asked the attorney general to appoint a special counsel, saying the Justice Department does not have the requisite independence to conduct an investigation of the White House.

At stake is the right of future generations to look back and understand the role of White House officials in critical events, said Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director.

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My my, I thought we were through with special counsels, those evil investigators of school children and locking away witnesses, and reaching BJs as a reason for impeachment. I bet Henry Hyde is chawing at the bit on this one.

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Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

Remember Watergate? When legislators thought about all of the precautions inorder to not have another one was to establish Presidential Transparancy laws. Basically it means that official business of the white house needs to be done on the official white house computer server. All records are to be preserved for oversight and transparency. Bush-Cheney-Rove just violated those laws when they were investigating the firing of department of justice attorneys in order to establish partisan "caging lists."

I am sick and tired of the White House continuing with "stonewalling" tactics equivalent to or great than Watergate.

This is amusing Shintao. You obviously don't seem to get the fact that CREW, an agenda driven organization hiding under the auspices of ethics, certainly has absolutely NO power to seat a special counsel for ANYTHING.

Now, the missing email situation is serious and someone in the white house should have to answer for that debacle. CREW getting involved just makes a mockery of the process.

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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." William F Buckley, Jr

CREW's agenda = responsibility and ethics in Washington.

So you say Viola, now prove it.

CREW being involved in ANY investigation simply adds an air of partisanship and political chicanery to the process that will be very difficult to overcome.

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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." William F Buckley, Jr

So you say, Boogyman, now prove it.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Consider the recent Roll Call investigation of CREW.

Smell that smoke? That is because there is a fire.

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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." William F Buckley, Jr

It seems these investigations never start from a government source, and the only power these groups need is media backing, as the mechanism to report fraud and criminal activity is already in force.

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

It's not really suprising that they and their donors share common enemies. Otherwise, why would they be donors?

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.