Pat Leahy On Missing RNC Emails: "It's Like The Famous 18 Minute Gap In The Nixon WH Tapes"

By John Amato — April 11, 2007

Sen. Pat Leahy blasted the administration over the missing emails today on the Floor...

Leahy: ...And they say they have not been preserved. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. You can't erase emails; not today...Those emails are there. They don't want to produce them. It's like the famous 18 minute gap in the Nixon WH tapes. They say they've been erased or misplaced. They're there. They know they're there. And we'll subpoena them if necessary and we'll have them...

He had a few other kind things to say about Alberto Gonzales and the Attorney scandal...

BREAKING: The White House lost Over FIVE MILLION e-mails in two year period

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