House Dems to RNC: Attorneys truth is 'disappearing into cyberspace'
 In a letter to the Republican National Committee today, top Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee demanded the delivery of emails and other documents relating to the US Attorneys matter by April 20.
"Chairman Conyers and Subcommittee Chairwoman Sánchez will not sit idly by while the truth about the U.S. Attorney matter disappears into cyberspace," a Judiciary Committee Spokesperson wrote to RAW STORY.
The letter was signed by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Committee Chairman, and Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA), who heads the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. It requested "all e-mail communications and all meta-data underlying them, stored on Republican National Committee servers or otherwise in the possession, custody, or control of the RNC, that are related in any way to the recent firings by the Department of Justice of United States Attorneys."
The letter went on to say that "White House e-mails routed through the RNC or its affiliated entities may be critical to our investigation," and pointed to a variety of examples, such as an exchange between White House Deputy Director of Political Affairs J. Scott Jennings and former Justice Department Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson on the firing of US Attorney for Arkansas Bud Cummins, with Jennings using a "gwb43.com" e-mail address.
The e-mail named current and former White House staff, in addition to Jennings, who may have used the RNC-supplied e-mail addresses: Karl Rove, Sara Taylor, Harriet Miers, and Tim Griffin.
Conyers and Sánchez were also eager to understand the circumstances under which e-mails were "lost."
"In light of reports that some of the e-mails may have been deleted, we also request any information...electronic or otherwise, including meta-data, that might indicate when and for what periods any of those e-mails were deleted, or who may have been involved in deleting them," they wrote.
And if the RNC answered that deleted e-mails could not be retrieved, the two Democrats asked that "technical experts working with us" be given the opportunity to question RNC personnel on e-mail recovery.
The letter is presented below.
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