The New York Times
By ERIC LIGHTBLAU
February 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — Large batches of e-mail records from the Justice Department lawyers who worked on the 2002 legal opinions justifying the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation techniques are missing, and the Justice Department told lawmakers Friday that it would try to trace the disappearance.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who leads the panel, angrily demanded to know what had happened to the e-mail files, and he noted that the destruction of government records, including official e-mail messages, was a criminal offense. He said the records gap called into question the completeness of the department’s internal reviews of the work done by the lawyers in the Bush years.
The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which spent more than four years investigating the handling of the legal opinions about interrogation policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, pushed to get access to a range of e-mail records and other internal documents from the Justice Department to aid in its investigation. …
1. Slicing Penises
2. Crack Cocaine Sales to Minority Neighborhoods of Los Angeles California
3. 11,000 Control Tower Employees Fired And Told Not to Come Back
4. The Iraq War Started for A Secret Reason
5. After Thousands of American Soldiers Died and Many More Iraqis Died – Shell Oil Is Back Pumping Oil From Iraq’s Oil Reserves – Reserves that are 2nd Only to Saudi Arabia’s, Oil Reserves
6. America’s Electronic Privacy was Lost to Government Spies While government hid their torture related electronic privacy from America.
7. Valerie Plame Lost Her Covert Status in The CIA
Could discoveries in item number 6 shed light on mysteries in item number 4? Will the latter-day neocons’ cost to America ever be computed?
With one exception, neocons are in a class by themselves.
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