Tired of waiting for a response, Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) issued a subpoena for any of Karl Rove’s emails in the Justice Department’s possession that might be relevant to the U.S. attorney firings. That includes emails sent from Rove’s White House account (which apparently doesn’t get much use) and emails from his account issued by the Republican National Committee.
You can see the subpoena here.
Note: Since the subpoena is to the Justice Department and not to the White House, it sidesteps any executive privilege concerns. And it seems possible that it could even claim internal White House emails since the subpoena specifically includes emails that were obtained by Patrick Fitzgerald as part of the Plame investigation.
