The dog ate White House's e-mails

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has reason to be angry.

The Bush Administration is expecting us to believe that it's simply "lost" e-mails the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding to see? No one puts that one better than Leahy himself: it really is the 21st century's version of "the dog ate my homework," and this smacks of the Nixon Administration's attempts to willfully lie and deceive Congress. It didn't work in 1973-1974, and it won't work now.

Leahy rightly points out that e-mails go through too many servers - if one looks hard enough, they can be found. The bad news for the Bush Administration is that the Judiciary Committee is looking.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reports that the Bush Administration "has lost over FIVE MILLION e-mails in a two year period... generated between March 2003 and October 2005." You can read the whole report CREW Report Here.

It should be crystal clear to anyone even passively following what is happening up on Capitol Hill that this administration is willfully breaking the law.

The case is slowly being made, step by step.

Hat tip to C&L about this story.