The RNC Domain

The question that occurs to me for which I concede I have no answer, is whether Patrick Fitzgerald has grounds to take another look at what Karl Rove told investigators and the grand jury during the Plame leak investigation? What I do not recall is whether it was generally known that Rove was such a prolific user of outside email domains, almost to the exclusion of the use of the official White House system. We do know, and are reminded today via Glenn Greenwald that Fitzgerald wrote the White House back in 2006 and reminded it that lawful protocols for archiving email were not being followed.

The White House failed to archive some e-mails in accordance with normal procedures in 2003, according to a letter from a special prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, disclosed the failure last week to defense attorneys for a former White House official, I. Lewis Libby, who is facing perjury and obstruction of justice charges in the probe.

"We advise you that we have learned that not all e-mail of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system," Mr. Fitzgerald wrote in the January 23 letter, which was filed in federal court on Tuesday.

Again, I wonder what Fitzgerald thinks of these new revelations and if they are even new to him? The White House would really not like him on its tail on this one.