In related news, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating the outing of Plame’s identity, has revealed that several White House e-mails from around the time Plame was exposed have been erased. In a letter to Lewis Libby’s lawyers, Fitzgerald wrote: “We have learned that not all email of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system.”