Yes, all those emails from the time of the Valeria Plame outing, reused and overwritten in a “consistent with industry best practices”.

Remember yesterday’s post on the lies of our times, this one needs to be added.

Not only are these clearly government records which require retention, but these tapes have been used in investigations going back to Iran-Contra.

They knew that this could be used as evidence, and they knew that it had been used as evidence, and they deliberately decided to destroy this evidence.