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Four Years of Rove E-mails Go Missing

E-mails may have covered attorney firings

By Colleen Barry, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 13, 2007 8:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – Four years of emails from Karl Rove that are being sought in a congressional investigation are missing and may have been deleted by Rove himself, the Republican National Committee acknowledged yesterday. The RNC operates the server for non-official e-mail accounts Rove and other White House... Read full story »

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