Leahy: Bush Aides Are Lying About Lost E-Mails
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WASHINGTON — President Bush’s aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Senator Leahy suggested yesterday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
“They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!” Mr. Leahy shouted from the Senate floor.
“You can’t erase e-mails, not today. They’ve gone through too many servers,” said Mr. Leahy, a Democrat of Vermont. “Those emails are there. They just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.”
