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The National Archives and a watchdog group, sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday for an investigation into the destruction of e-mail, John Yoo, since the summer of 2002 when he and other Government lawyers prepare and end the legal information the CIA has redefined torture and interrogation allowed the brutal war against terror detainees.

But the researchers said that the OPR investigation was "hampered by the loss of Yoo and documents e-mail .. Philbin of" OPR has requested and been granted direct access to email and computer records of Yoo Redacted, [Fiscal Gen. Patrick] Philbin, Bybee, and [former prime OLC head Jack] Goldsmith "during its investigations, the creation of the torture memo.

In a letter sent Thursday to Jeanette Plante, the Office of the Ministry of Justice and records management policies, Paul Wester, director of the Program Files "modern document said, in compliance with federal regulations governing the records retention, If the "Department of Justice determined that an unauthorized destruction took place, the Department of Justice shall submit a report to the" Nara.

The destruction of e-mail Philbin and Yoo has also attracted the attention of watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who had fought years of legal battle with the Bush administration for the destruction of tens millions of e -mail and make efforts to not take action to recover the documents and the conservation of others.

Under terms of the contract before 22 million "missing" e-mail, which covers 94 days will be reset. This includes e-mail to the office of vice-president who had lost and stranded and were cited by Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the unauthorized leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. This period also coincided with a controversy surrounding the publication of documents relating to meetings of the energy ex-Vice President of tasks, Dick Cheney, of the Force.

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