So Karl Rove and other political appointees in the White House used their RNC email accounts (rather than their government accounts) to discuss the possibility of firing U.S. Attorneys, and now the administration tells us that these emails…wait for it…have mysteriously disappeared! What a shame, because the White House no doubt would have loved to be able to produce these emails to prove they weren’t attempting to interfere with the Justice Department for political reasons. But Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) isn’t buying it:

“They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!” Leahy shouted from the Senate floor.

Is Leahy right to believe that the administration is lying, or did the RNC simply put IT wizard Sen. Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens in charge of their servers? If so, Leahy has a solution for retrieving the messages:

“I’ve got a teenage kid in my neighborhood that can go get ’em for them,” he told reporters later.