More questions than answers in attorney purge

That may be about to change. FDL reports that John Conyers has just issued a sunpoena to DoJ for all records relating to firings, including electronic ones, such as say, emails. Meanwhile, we have Senators complaining they suspect the DoJ has been holding out on documents.

Among the missing documents the senators mentioned was a chart cited in a Feb. 12, 2007, e-mail message from Monica Goodling, a former aide to Mr. Gonzales, to other department officials.

Even day seems to reveal a new mile marker on the DoJ's road to ruin that points to Monica. Small wonder Ms. Goodling is reluctant to testify. And it seems difficult to believe that no emails were exchanged over those dicey indictments of Democrats that were handed down at politically expedient pre-election moments, but were later dropped or dismissed when the elections were over.

Speaking of emails, one wonders if the RNC issued laptops are the smoking gun that will finally blow the cover off not only this matter, but the overarching politicalization under this administration of nearly every federal government agency. Considering the reports that Rove conducted nearly all his White House business on an outside email address, I'm thinking this is not just a smoking gun, it's a virtual A-bomb that could likely to blow the cover off the relentless and ongoing hijacking of our democracy for the sole benefit of the Republican party.

Of course, there are naysayers.

Some Republican activists say the e-mail request will not create great difficulty for the White House because nothing nefarious happened and because the RNC automatically purges some e-mails after 30 days.

That certainly raises the question, why only some emails and who set the parameters for which some emails those would be? I'm no technogenius but recalling other investigations in which purged emails ultimately led to criminal convictions, I believe, short of physically destroying the servers -- which I don't put past Rove -- a good forensic computer expert can retrieve information thought to be long erased.

Remember the address, gwb43.com. I think history will record that this account was the key to the closet in Bush's White House where Republican dirty tricks went to hide.