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"The unexplained disappearance of an entire weeks' worth of emails from the OVP [Office of the Vice President] at a time when the Department of Justice was investigating the actions of top White House officials, including officials within the OVP, warrants the initiation of a criminal investigation to determine whether White House officials obstructed justice and violated other criminal statutes," CREW's cheif counsel Anne Weismann wrote in a letter to Mueller (.pdf). "Similarly, the disappearance of over 10 million White House email records also justifies an investigation into the facts surrounding the knowing failure of the White House to comply with federal record-keeping laws."
The letter to Mueller comes after Attorney General Michael Mukasey dismissed a previous CREW request to appoint a special counsel to investigate the missing e-mails.
On Sept. 30, 2003, Alberto Gonzales, who was then White House counsel, sent a letter to White House staff alerting them that the Justice Department was opening a criminal investigation into the leak of Plame's name. Conservative columnist Robert Novak had outed the CIA operative in a July 2003 column.