{"id":10518,"date":"2007-04-14T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T19:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10518.html"},"modified":"2007-04-14T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T19:17:36","slug":"a-breakthrough-on-lost-emails-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-breakthrough-on-lost-emails-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"A breakthrough on ‘lost’ emails? Sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news is, an outside expert, who works for neither Congress nor the White House, will try to recover<\/a> some of the Bush gang’s missing emails. The Senate Judiciary Committee requested the independent consultant and today the White House agreed. Of course, there’s a small catch.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and the committee’s top Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, wrote White House counsel Fred Fielding to request that “we jointly agree on a fair and objective process for investigating this matter, including the use of a mutually trusted computer forensic expert.”<\/p>\n

“Such a process would help to restore the public’s confidence in the White House’s desire to comply with the Presidential Records Act,” the senators said.<\/p>\n

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Saturday that Fielding called Leahy and Specter to say that allowing the committee input into picking an independent consultant is a good idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, what’s the catch? David Kurtz notes<\/a> that the Senate “gets to help pick who will find the emails but the White House still hasn’t agreed to let the Senate see the emails once they are found.” That ought to make things interesting.<\/p>\n

Here’s a crazy thought: isn’t likely that the White House agreed to the independent consultant because the Bush gang feels secure that possibly incriminating evidence has already been thoroughly disposed of? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good news is, an outside expert, who works for neither Congress nor the White House, will try to recover some of the Bush gang’s missing emails. The Senate Judiciary Committee requested the independent consultant and today the White House agreed. Of course, there’s a small catch. On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}