WILD CARD ? : PRINCE ANDREW TAKES LEAVE

ITEM: (Alberto) Gonzales .... said when he was first informed about the investigation into the (CIA) leak by the Justice Dept. he waited roughly 12 hours before informing the West Wing...... Craig Crawford of the Congressional Quarterly tells MSNBC this time gap raises questions whether Gonzales or Andrew Card contacted Karl Rove that night to possibly begin dumping evidence. "Anybody who was worried about e-mails had a lot of time to word-search and delete it " says Crawford..... They were getting rid of documents but some of it still got through"... (" CIA Leak Mutates Again" , Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC ) ............ ITEM : "Raw Story reports and Steve Clemons of the Washington Note confirms through a source close to Karl Rove that it was Karl Rove who tipped off Fitzgerald to the 250 pages of deleted e-mails in Vice-President Cheney’s office relevent to the Valerie Plame investigation....." http://www.talkleft.com/new_archives/014399.html ............. ITEM: The Fitzgerald court filing authenticated the "Discovery" of these e-mails . Date of filing : February 24, 2006............ ITEM : " CARD DID WANT TO GO BUT HE HEARD THE TOM-TOMS , according to someone who knows him well and (Card) told Bush IT WAS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE TEAM FOR HIM TO LEAVE.." ("Can Bush’s New Captain Steady the Ship ?" , TIME )............ITEM : "The president said Card came to him in EARLY MARCH and suggested he should step down..... Associates said Card had wanted to establish himself as the longest serving White House Chief of Staff. He would have had about another seven months to go to beat Sherman Adams...." ... (Card Resigns as White House Chief of Staff , AOL NEWS, 3/28/06 )