Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing

Hylas sends us to Democracy Now for a newscast on the missing emails, an interview with investigative journalist Greg Palast. Here's Palast talking about the fired US attorney from New Mexico, David Iglesias: "Iglesias believes the real reasons for the firings are in what are called the missing emails, emails sent by the [White House political advisor Karl] Rove team using Republican Party campaign computers, which Rove claims can't be retrieved. But not all the missing emails are missing. We have 500 of them. Apparently the Rove team misaddressed their emails, and late one night they all ended up in our inboxes in our offices in New York City." This story has had zero play in the US media; it's been being carried on the BBC.

Comments

Re:It is a non-issue

[schon]

It is not playing in the US media because no law was broken when those attorneys were fired. Ahh - that explains why Clinton got hounded for a blowjob - we all know those are illegal!

Thanks for your insight.

Re:I must be new here...

[Darby]

Perspectives are a funny thing, like all those people saying the media is controlled by Republicans, it always seemed to me that the media is controlled by liberals.

That isn't an issue of "perspective". It's a total lack of any knowledge or even common sense on your part.

There are a few huge corproations who own almost all of our media.
The only two groups the republicans cater to are religious extremists and huge corporations.

And they all said the Republicans were for the big companies and Demos were for the little guy, but it seemed to me the policies of the demos kept the so-called little guy down.

The Republicans are for the big companies and *against* the average citizen. There is no possible way to dispute that.
That has nothing at all to do with the fact that the Democrats are scum as well.

Re:Greg Palast's history is even better

[HiredMan]

Oh, well, getting a story straight is always a problem, is not it?

Yeah, ask Alberto Gonzales about that... or Cheney about WMDs, or Feith about pre-war stove-piping, or George Bush about his... well anything...

You're trotting out some line about "getting stories straight" in defense of the Bush Administration?

As Bart Simpson would say, "The ironing is delicious..."

=Tod

Re:But is it a dimes worth?

[hey!]

If you remember back to 9/12/2001, there was a great yearning to be united in the struggle.

The Patriot Act (which is not completely bad, by the way, you should actualy read it if you have not), and the Iraq war resolution were acts of trust by a Congress in that atmosphere of unity, trust which was betrayed. The trust was misplaced, as future events demonstrated.

I never trusted Bush, so I was against the Patriot Act and the Iraq War Resolution, but I'm not the sort of person who automatically dismiss somebody because they come from the Republican party. It's time for Republicans to own up and take their lumps like a man. Their guys screwed up big time. They should go back and rebuild the party they thought they had, not make lame excuses that "everybody does it". That is shameful. Everybody lies from time to time, but it doesn't mean there is no difference between an ordinary, flawed human being and a pathological liar.

Step back, and look at the big picture. Is there a dimes worth of differnence in the period 2001-2006 from periods of Democratic control? If you don't see it, you need your eyes examined.

Maybe the country is irretrievably ruined. Maybe there is no decency, honestry or honor left in it. I don't think we're there yet, nor do I think Republicans should give up on the country, or even their party, because their party has been hijacked.