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Missing emails???

Rove withheld crucial CIA leak email for nearly a year, new book reveals

In the new book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, veteran Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff and Nation Washington editor David Corn reveal they obtained a copy of the printed-out email sent by Rove to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in July 2003

The printout is dated in November of 2003. Rove's lawyer -- Robert Luskin -- didn't turn the email over to the special prosecutor investigating the outing of a CIA officer until October 2004.

In the e-mail, according to Isikoff's account in a Newsweek story last year, Rove said Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper pushed him on whether the president was being hurt by a controversy over the validity of intelligence which claimed Iraq had sought uranium from the African country of Niger ('evidence' of Iraq's attempts to obtain WMDs which later emerged had been fabricated).
"I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote, saying he advised Cooper not to get "far out in front" of the story.

Hubris reveals the email was printed out Nov. 25, 2003 and given to Rove's lawyer by Rove assistant BJ Goergen.
Luskin would later say he overlooked the email, not discovering it until Cooper was held in contempt of court for a second time in October 2004 after refusing to testify about his conversation with Rove.
Luskin turned over the email the day after Cooper was held in contempt. At the time, he said it was missed because the right "search words" weren't used -- an explanation that seems to lose water amidst the new revelations. More on the story...