>I am not saying the sky is falling. We don't have all the facts yet. It's just an awfully fishy sounding story.
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>I'll ask you a direct question: do you find it credible that all these emails disappeared without a trace, either by accident or innocent carelessness? If as a cop you had been involved with this investigation would you have accepted that explanation? (Hey, I'm channeling Jesse Jackson! LOL).

As a cop, my motto was "trust no one". But, it is within the realm of possibilities, that they were mistakenly deleted. Let's investigate this ourselves. What are the possibilities? I'll start and you and others can add to the list:

1. A dog ate them.
2. Illegal aliens (from mars, or Mexico) ate them.
3. Someone was having sex on their desk and somehow the delete kept getting hammered.
4. Some nerd decided they needed more space on a server and deleted a few folders.
5. It was done intentionally, by someone who thought it would be a good idea if these emails went away, but that person did it on their own.
6. The president ordered it done.
7. Dick Cheney ordered it done.
8. Karl Rove ordered it done.
9. Any of the above were involved in a meeting and the deletion was the result of their decision.
10. The DLC did it so they could blame the evil Republicans.
11. The RNC did it so they could blame the evil Democrats.
12. I did it, and I'm proud of it.
13. You did it, and you're telling people I did it.
14. I did it, and I'm telling people you did it.
15. Hillary did it.
16. Osama yomama hussein yousef akbar Obama did it.
17. The White House I.T. guys don't know what they are doing and there is no backup system to retrieve the data from. They deleted it.
18. The Open Source community did it.
19. Bill Gates either did it personally, or had it done so he could sell the US Government a NEW AND IMPROVED EXCHANGE SERVER solution.
20. John Koziol did it, because it seemed so right.

Here is a newsclip that, after reading, I believe it is much ado about nothing:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OFRA1O0&show_article=1

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Luskin said Rove didn't know that deleting e-mails from his RNC inbox also deleted them from the RNC's server. That system was changed in 2005.

Rove voluntarily allowed investigators in the Plame case to review his laptop and copy the entire hard drive, from which investigators could have recovered even deleted e-mails, Luskin said.

As the investigation was winding down, Luskin said, prosecutors came to his office and reviewed all the documents—including e-mails—he had collected to be sure both sides a complete set.

Luskin said he has not heard from Fitzgerald's office and said that, if Fitzgerald believed any e-mails were destroyed, he would have called. Fitzgerald's office declined comment.

The White House did not immediately respond to Luskin's comments.

A lawyer for the RNC told congressional investigators that the RNC may be able to recover some of those e-mails sent from August 2004 on. That's when the RNC put a hold on an automatic purge policy.

The RNC lawyer, Rob Kelner, also said that the Republican committee has none of Rove's e-mails on its server prior to 2005, possibly because Rove deleted them, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

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