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October 02, 2003
It shouldn't be that difficult II
The LA Times is reporting that the investigation into the Plame scandal may take a long time to produce any kind of real information, in part because it's not easy to get access to some of the information that will be needed.
"It is going to take them several weeks just to get the relevant records from the CIA and the White House," a former Justice Department criminal division official said, requesting anonymity. "The White House is not going to turn over all of [chief political advisor] Karl Rove's phone logs. There is going to be a negotiation over it. You have to negotiate the terms and conditions. It is going to take some time."The Weekly Standard, however, didn't find it all that difficult to get information about Rove's phone logs when it wanted to try and smear Wesley Clark a couple weeks ago.
Unfortunately for Clark, the White House has logged every incoming phone call since the beginning of the Bush administration in January 2001. At the request of THE DAILY STANDARD, White House staffers went through the logs to check whether Clark had ever called White House political adviser Karl Rove. The general hadn't. What's more, Rove says he doesn't remember ever talking to Clark, either.Of course, in the case of the investigation, the outcome is more likely to be embarassing to the White House than to any of the Democratic presidential candidates, and they are looking for a pattern of calls rather than a single incoming call, but it seems to me that if White House offices are willing to provide info from the phone logs for a magazine, they should certainly be willing to provide info from the phone logs for investigators.
Posted by thorswitch at October 2, 2003 05:40 PM
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