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Freed Britons thank Iran's president
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- British sailors and marines, held in Iranian custody for nearly two weeks, shook hands and made small talk with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday, thanking him shortly after he announced their pardon.

The 14 British men were dressed in suits, the lone woman wore slacks and a kerchief on her head, as they approached the president, who stood next to an interpreter.

Fragments of sentences could be overheard: "Grateful for forgiveness," "Thanks to you and the Iranian people," and "You were kind to us. Thank you very much." (Watch the UK troops express their thanks to Iran's president )

Ahmadinejad joked with one of them, "What kind of compulsory trip were you on?" He then added, "I wish you success."

The Britons are to leave Tehran for Britain at 8 a.m. Thursday (12:30 a.m. ET), according to Ahmadinejad's office.

Britain's Foreign Office confirmed the group had met with British Ambassador Geoffrey Adams in Tehran at an undisclosed location to discuss travel arrangements. While the group would likely be flown out of Tehran, it was unlikely they would be on a military plane, a Foreign Office spokesman said.

Ahmadinejad announced the release of the British personnel at the end of a more than hour-long news conference, taking journalists by surprise. (Watch as Ahmadinejad makes his "gift to the British people" )

"I declare that the people of Iran and the government of Iran -- in full power given their legal right to place on trial the military people -- to give amnesty and pardon to these 15 people, and I announce their freedom and their return to the people of Britain," Ahmadinejad said.

"I request the government of Mr. Blair not to question these people or to place them on trial for speaking the truth," he added, referring to their video confessions, which Britain has rejected.

The decision to release the hostages would have come from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on diplomatic, defense and other key issues, CNN's Christiane Amanpour said.

Ahmadinejad maintained that the detainees had violated Iran's territorial waters, and he said that his government had received a letter from Britain promising not to intrude into Iranian waters.

He also praised the Iranian coast guard members who plucked the Britons from a cargo ship they had boarded to check for smuggled goods on March 23. "I want to thank our border guards who bravely protect our borders and also arrested the violators, and I grant them the bravery medal to their commander," Ahmadinejad said.

The Britons' release, he said, was "a gift to the British people." (Watch why one expert calls Ahmadinejad "a master of political gestures" )

Relief and shock
The British personnel's families expressed huge relief.

"Well, we were absolutely, totally shocked," said Alison Carman, mother of Lt. Felix Carman, as she stood beside her husband. "It was just unbelievable. It was a bolt out of the blue. We'd been praying for their release, and when it actually happened, I think I fell to the floor, and Paul burst into tears."

"And we'd like to thank the Iranians for their gift to the British people."

In the town of Hayle, a party was under way at the Cornubia Pub, where one of the detained sailors, Nathan Thomas Summers, worked before joining the Royal Navy.

"We haven't gotten any news yet, but the Ministry of Defense and the Royal Navy have been absolutely fantastic keeping us up to date with every bit of information we've needed," said Summers' mother, Tracey Watkins.

"We really will celebrate once I actually see my son on English soil," she said. "That will be the time. When he's in my arms." (Watch Summers' friends and family raise their glasses in joy )

She said she was told that Summers would have to undergo debriefing and a physical exam before seeing his family, but he can call them once he reaches the British Embassy.

"As politics is concerned, I try to keep out of it," Watkins said. "I am just glad I'm getting my son back."

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the announcement comes "as a profound relief, not just to them but to their families that have endured such distress and anxiety over these past 12 days."

"Throughout, we have taken a measured approach: firm but calm, not negotiating but not confronting either," Blair said in a brief statement to reporters. (Watch Tony Blair react to news that UK personnel will be freed )

"To the Iranian people, I would simply say this: We bear you no ill will. On the contrary, we respect Iran as an ancient civilization, as a nation with a proud and dignified history.

"And the disagreements that we have with your government we hope to resolve peacefully through dialogue. I hope, as I've always hoped, that in the future we are able to do so."

In Washington, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said: "President Bush also welcomes the news."

Factors behind release
Syria has been undertaking "quiet diplomacy" between Iran and Britain to "resolve the row over the British sailors," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told Kuwait's state-run newspaper Al-Anba earlier Wednesday.

Iran's president said the Britons' release was a goodwill gesture in honor of last weekend's observance of the birthday of Mohammed, "the holy prophet of Islam -- the center of all goodness."

Another factor was Sunday's Christian holiday of Easter, Iran's state-run news agency IRNA said.

Ahmadinejad said the Britons' freedom was not related to the status of five detained Iranians captured by U.S. forces during a military raid in northern Iraq in early January."We approached the subject on a humanitarian basis. It was a unilateral decision," he said.

Meanwhile, a U.S. military official said Washington officials were considering a request made by Iran to allow Iranian representatives access to the Iranian group. "The request has been made, but nothing has been approved," the official told CNN on Wednesday. (Iraq pressing U.S. to release Iranians)

CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh contributed to this report.

NASSAU, Bahamas (CNN) -- Former boyfriend Larry Birkhead was declared the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby Tuesday, and Howard K. Stern, listed as Dannielynn's father on the birth certificate, said he would not fight for custody  .
"My feelings for Dannielynn have not changed," said Stern, who was Smith's lawyer and live-in companion.
"I am not going to fight Larry Birkhead on custody. We're going to do what we can to make sure that the best interests of Dannielynn are carried out. And I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody," Stern said outside the Bahamian courthouse where the DNA test results were disclosed. (Watch Stern express his disappointment  )
When asked when Birkhead would get custody of the 7-month-old girl, who has been living with Stern in Nassau, Stern said he wanted there to be a "gradual transition."
Stern said Birkhead could come to the house any time and spend as much time as he wants with his daughter.
Another hearing is set for Friday to further discuss the custody issue, which involves Stern, Birkhead and Virgie Arthur, Smith's estranged mother who lives in Texas.
Arthur's attorney, John O'Quinn, told "Larry King Live" on Tuesday that Arthur would not seek any sort of guardianship  for Dannielynn. Arthur and Birkhead will meet on Thursday, he said, in an attempt to reach an agreement regarding access to Dannielynn.
"Virgie is the grandmother, and we're going to respect that," he said.
Birkhead sits in a good position to take Dannielynn home soon, according to B. J. Bernstein, a defense attorney and CNN legal analyst.
"It's very difficult for grandparents ... to trump the natural, biological parent," Bernstein said.
Arthur said she was happy with the outcome  of the results. "All I care about is the safety and well-being of my little granddaughter," she said. (Watch Smith's mom explain what she plans to do next  )
Birkhead: I told you so
Birkhead was the first to share the paternity  results with the public.
"Everybody, I hate to be the one to tell you this -- but I told you so," he said outside the court as he smiled and threw his hands into the air.
When asked what's next, he said, "I'm going to the toy store."
Crowds applauded  in front of the courthouse as Birkhead made the announcement, and Birkhead teared up as he thanked his supporters. (Watch Birkhead be the one to say 'I told you so'  )
A DNA test confirmed him as the father with 99.99 percent certainty, said Dr. Michael Baird, who performed the test and revealed the results to a closed session of a Bahamian court.
Baird told CNN's "Larry King Live" that a cheek sample was taken from Dannielynn on March 21 and tested on March 22. The DNA testing was finished March 26, he said, and the results were known to him and some members of his staff but were not made public until he opened the results in the courtroom Tuesday.
The court had ordered DNA testing to determine the father of the child, who has been at the center of a paternity dispute since she was born in a Bahamian hospital in September.
Birkhead, an entertainment reporter and photographer, said shortly after the baby's birth that he accompanied Smith to doctors' appointments until a "minor disagreement" took place while she was pregnant.
In September, Stern said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he and Smith were confident he was the father, and "based on the timing of when the baby was born, there really is no doubt in either of our minds."
Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Frederic von Anhalt, also said he could be the father.
Dannielynn stands to inherit  millions of dollars from the estate of Smith's late husband, oil tycoon Howard Marshall II. Until her death, Smith was involved in a legal battle over the inheritance. 
The former Playboy Playmate died of an accidental drug overdose February 8.
After a protracted  dispute over the burial of Smith's body, Stern and Birkhead began battling in Bahamian courts over the child, and a judge ordered that a swab be taken from the girl for DNA testing.
Stern then asked the Bahamas' Court of Appeal to block release of those test results, arguing that the judge had misinterpreted the law and his order invaded  the girl's privacy.
Earlier this month, appellate judges questioned why Stern was raising legal claims after giving consent to the DNA swabbing.
Stern was ordered to pay $10,000 in court costs for the abandoned appeal.

TROY, Michigan (CNN) -- A Michigan man shot to death one person and injured two others Monday at the suburban Detroit accounting firm from which he was fired last week, police said.
The suspect, 38-year-old Anthony LaCalamita, was "deliberately seeking out these individuals," according to Troy police Lt. Gerry Scherlinck.
A female receptionist died and two men, believed to be "management level employees," underwent surgery for gunshot wounds at Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital, Scherlinck said.
A 50-year-old man from Dexter, Michigan, tipped off authorities to LaCalamita's location after hearing a description of the suspect's vehicle -- a 2007 silver Ford Fusion -- on the radio.
The man, who did not want to be identified, called 911 when he realized the vehicle directly next to him matched the description on the radio, according to Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell.
Police attempted to stop the vehicle as it entered Vienna township, but LaCalamita would not pull over, Pickell said.
LaCalamita drove across several counties, at speeds up to 120 miles per hour, surrendering only after authorities boxed in his car on Interstate 75 in Saginaw, Michigan.
He surrendered "peacefully and without incident," Pickell said.
Upon arrest, police seized a shotgun and several shells, he said.
LaCalamita is being held in the Genesee County jail and is expected to be handed over to the Detroit police.
A Web site for the public accounting firm Gordon Advisors in the building lists LaCalamita as an employee.
"We heard gunshots. ... We're on the third floor, barricaded in," Bill Adgate, who works for LPL Financial in the office building, told CNN affiliate WDIV-TV as the search went on for the gunman.
"We put a conference table in front of the front door with a bunch of chairs," Adgate told WDIV, a Detroit station. "We have four entrances -- three entrances to our offices. We put file cabinets and things of that nature in front of it."
Monday's shooting follows two last week in public places in Atlanta, Georgia, and Seattle, Washington.
In Atlanta's CNN Center on Tuesday, police say a man shot to death his former girlfriend just downstairs from the center's Omni Hotel and outside the CNN.com newsroom.
On Monday on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, a gunman killed his former girlfriend and then himself.
In early March, a gunman shot and wounded three people at a printing facility near Los Angeles, California, before killing himself. Police said he was a disgruntled employee of the facility in Signal Hill, California.
In February, a gunman killed five people and injured several others at a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before an off-duty policeman killed the shooter.

• Iraqi insurgents being trained in Iran to assemble Iranian weapons
• Army proposes extending tours in Iraq from a year to 15 months
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide truck bomb exploded on a major bridge in northern Baghdad Thursday morning, sending cars into the Tigris River and killing at least 10 people and wounding 26 others, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official..
Video of the scene showed two large sections in the middle of al-Sarafiya bridge collapsed into the river.
The al-Sarafiya bridge connected the predominantly Sunni Adhamiya neighborhood and Bab al-Muadham, a mixed district.
The iron bridge, one of Baghdad's oldest, was built by British forces in 1946.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said Wednesday that Iraqi insurgents are being trained in Iran to assemble weapons and Iranian-made weapons are still turning up in Iraq.
The statement comes two months after the United States said it had asked Tehran to stop the flow of weapons into Iraq.
Coalition forces found a cache of Iranian rockets and grenade launchers in Baghdad on Tuesday, spokesman U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said Wednesday.
"The death and violence in Iraq are bad enough without this outside interference," Caldwell said. "Iran and all of Iraq's neighbors really need to respect Iraq's sovereignty and allow the people of this country the time and the space to choose their own future."
Caldwell showed reporters photographs on Wednesday that he said were found in the weapons cache. In February, Caldwell said the United States had asked Iran to stop the transfer of weapons. (Watch why the U.S. is blaming Iran and Syria  )
President Bush has said a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard called the Quds Force is behind the supply of Iranian weapons. Tehran has denied interfering in Iraq.
Caldwell also said Wednesday that two militants who were recently detained said they had received training in Syria, another nation the Bush administration has accused of meddling in the region.

Caldwell offered no other details about the report.
He accused the Quds Force of supplying Iraqi insurgents with armor-piercing roadside bombs, called explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs. Caldwell said extremists are getting training on how to "assemble and employ EFPs."
"We know that they are being in fact manufactured and smuggled into this country, and we know that training does go on in Iran for people to learn how to assemble them and how to employ them," Caldwell said. "We know that training has gone on as recently as this past month from detainees' debriefs."
He said Shiite extremists are being trained inside Iran and said the use of such weapons requires "very skilled training." Much of the violence in Iraq is blamed on fighting between Shiite and Sunni insurgents. An overwhelming number of Iranians are Shiite.
"There has been training on specialized weapons that are used here in Iraq. And then we do know they receive, also, training on ... what we call a more complex kind of attack, where we see multiple types of engagements being used from an explosion to small-arms fire, to being done in multiple places," Caldwell said.
Munitions from Iran were found in a black Mercedes sedan in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood on Tuesday after a tip from a civilian, he said. An Iranian-made rocket was found in the back seat and Iranian weapons were found in the trunk and around a nearby house, Caldwell said.
In an unusual development, he said coalition forces have found evidence that Sunni insurgents in Iraq received help from intelligence services in the Shiite nation of Iran.
"We have in fact found some cases recently where Iranian intelligence services have provided to some Sunni insurgent groups, some support," Caldwell said. "We do continue to see the Iranian intelligence services being active here in Iraq in terms of both providing funding and providing weapons and munitions."
Pentagon extends Army tours
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the standard yearlong tour of duty for U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan has been extended to 15 months to meet targets for troop buildup. (Full story)
The tour extension, announced by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is intended to make tours more predictable and avoid the situation of giving troops little advance notice they will have to stay. (Watch military commanders explain the extensions  )
Red Cross report blasts Iraq conditions
Military operations in Iraq are forcing thousands of Iraqis from their homes, while the U.S.-led coalition or Iraq are holding tens of thousands of people against their will, according to an International Committee of the Red Cross report released Wednesday.
"The suffering that Iraqi men, women and children are enduring today is unbearable and unacceptable," said the ICRC's director of operations, Pierre Krohenbuhl. "Their lives and dignity are continuously under threat." (Watch how Iraqi students must live and study under the threat of attacks  )
The report "expresses alarm about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq and calls for urgent action to better protect civilians against the continuing violence."
The report was issued ahead of next week's international conference in Geneva and also points to the "critical condition" of Iraq's infrastructure due to "lack of maintenance and because security constraints have impeded repair work."
The ICRC "deplores the daily acts of violence such as shootings, bombings, abductions, murders and military operations that directly target Iraqi civilians in clear violation of international humanitarian law and other applicable legal standards."
Other developments
•  Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad in the past 24 hours, the U.S. military said Wednesday. One soldier was killed in a roadside bombing near a patrol in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday and the other died in an attack against a military unit in southern Baghdad on Tuesday. The deaths brought the total of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war to 3,294, including seven U.S. civilian military employees.
•  Coalition forces early Wednesday said they arrested a figure who is suspected to be the top terrorist leader of the Arab Jabour region, south of Baghdad. "Coalition forces captured five suspected terrorists, including the suspected al Qaeda in Iraq security emir of Arab Jabour during an operation Wednesday morning," the military said in a statement. Officials did not identify the suspected terrorist leader.
CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- CBS has canceled Don Imus' radio show, effective immediately, after uproar over his racist and sexist comments about Rutgers women's basketball team.
"From the outset, I believe all of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air about the young women who represented Rutgers University in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship with such class, energy and talent," said CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves, in announcing the decision.
The decision by CBS came a day after NBC Universal decided to part ways with Imus, thus canceling the simulcast of his show on MSNBC. (Watch analysts weigh in on CBS' decision  )
CBS, which carried Imus on 61 radio stations, had originally announced that it would suspend his show for two weeks.
CNNMoney.com reports that "Imus in the Morning" generated about $20 million in revenue last year, about one percent of CBS Radio division's total. (Full story )
Rutgers University told CNN it would not comment on CBS' decision, but a source close to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine said the team was meeting Thursday night with Imus at the Governor's Mansion.
Amid the outcry over his on-air racial slur last week, shock jock Imus said Thursday that he had "apologized enough" and that he will not go on "some talk show tour."
"I'm not going to go talk to Larry King or Barbara Walters or anyone else," Imus said on his flagship station in New York, WFAN-AM, which is owned by CBS Corp. and distributed "Imus in the Morning" nationally.
"The only other people I want to talk to are these young women at the team, and then that's it," Imus said.
On his show last week, Imus described the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" the day after the team lost the NCAA championship to the University of Tennessee. (Gallery: Other controversial comments aired on Imus show)
He has repeatedly apologized for those remarks.
NBC News President Steve Capus, appearing on CNN, said Imus' comments had "touched a nerve" within the organization and firing him was "the only action we could take." (Vote: Is Imus' career over?)
Despite being dropped by NBC, Imus hosted his show from the MSNBC studios in New Jersey. He did not appear on TV.
"As you know, MSNBC folded up yesterday, so we're just on the radio," he said.
Imus was broadcasting his 18th annual radio charity fundraiser, which has pulled in $50 million since 1990. It ends Friday.
"This may be our last radio-thon, so we need to raise $100 million dollars," Imus said, chuckling.
According to The Associated Press, Imus raised $1 million in the first five hours of Thursday's fundraiser.
The disparaging remark prompted eight companies to pull their ads from Imus' show: Staples, General Motors, Sprint Nextel, GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, PetMed Express, American Express and Bigelow Tea.
Sharpton: 'No champagne bottle popping'
Shortly after CBS made its announcement, the Rev. Al Sharpton applauded the decision as a "first-round victory" at a press conference outside the network's corporate headquarters in New York.(Watch Sharpton say his efforts won't stop with Imus  )
"This from the beginning ... was never about Don Imus. It was about the misuse of the airways," Sharpton said.
"We cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can be used to commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism. But there will be no champagne bottle popping by those of us involved in this. This is not about gloating," Sharpton said.
Sharpton said he wants to show the media and television industries and the public that it is not necessary to "be misogynist and racist to be creative or to be commercial in this country."(Watch an analysis of whether other shows need taming  )
Earlier Thursday, the father of a player on the Rutgers team joined Sharpton at a rally outside the network's offices.
Linzell Vaughn, father of sophomore center Kia Vaughn, said Imus' comments were "like a slap in the face."
"Do not disrespect our children," he said. (Players talk of hurt, seeking understanding)
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson also spoke on Thursday afternoon outside CBS' offices and called for Imus' firing.
"This is not the first time this has happened on this show," he said, and spoke of previous Imus comments that Jackson characterized as racist and sexist.
"'Three strikes you're out' ought to apply to this position," he said.
Bruce Gordon, a member of CBS Corp.'s board of directors, also said he wanted Imus fired from WFAN.
Speaking Thursday on CNN's "American Morning," Gordon said that, speaking "as an African-American man in this country, Don Imus violated our community. He attacked beautiful, talented, classy women and when those women showed themselves to the country, I think that those words matched with those images made it clear to America that Don Imus was wrong."
Gordon is a former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Millions of White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday.
"I wouldn't rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost," Perino told reporters.
The administration was already facing sharp questions about whether top presidential advisers including Karl Rove improperly used Republican National Committee e-mail that the White House said later disappeared.
The latest comments were a response to a new report from a liberal watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), alleging that over a two-year period official White House e-mail traffic for hundreds of days has vanished -- in possible violation of the federal Presidential Records Act. (Watch CREW's comments on the missing messages  )
"This story is really now a two-part issue," CREW's Melanie Sloan told CNN. "First there's the use of the RNC e-mail server that's inappropriate by White House officials and secondly we've also learned that there were between March of 2003 and October of 2005 apparently over 5 million e-mail that were not preserved and these are e-mail on the regular White House server."
Perino stressed there's no indication the e-mails were intentionally lost, but she was careful not to dispute the outside group's allegations. "I'm not taking issue with their conclusions at this point," Perino said. "We're checking into them. There are 1,700 people in the Executive Office of the President."
White House: 'We screwed up'
Perino's disclosure about the White House e-mail comes a day after she admitted that the White House "screwed up" by not requiring e-mails from Republican Party and campaign accounts to be saved and was also trying to recover those e-mails.
Perino said 22 aides in the political arm of the president's office use party or campaign e-mail accounts, which were issued to separate official business from political work. Some of those accounts were used to discuss the December firings of eight federal prosecutors, a shake-up that has triggered a spreading controversy on Capitol Hill.
Congressional investigators have questioned whether White House aides used e-mail accounts from the Republican Party and President Bush's re-election campaign for official government business to avoid scrutiny of those dealings.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused the White House of trying to hide messages on the Republican Party system related to the firing of the U.S. attorneys, which has stirred up a hornet's nest on Capitol Hill.
"You can't erase e-mails, not today," said Leahy, D-Vermont. "They've gone through too many servers. They can't say they've been lost. That's like saying, 'The dog ate my homework.' " (Watch Leahy compare e-mails to Nixon tapes  )
Leahy said the e-mails would have remained on party or campaign computer servers, and he compared the situation to the famous 18½-minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes.
"They're there," he said. "They know they're there, and we'll subpoena them, if necessary, and we'll have them."
Perino told reporters that the e-mails from those accounts should have been saved, but said policy has not kept pace with technology. She said computer experts were trying to retrieve any records that have been deleted.
"We screwed up, and we're trying to fix it," she told reporters.
E-mails sought by special prosecutor also missing
Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, disclosed last year that some White House e-mails in 2003 were not saved as standard procedure dictated.
In a January 23, 2006, letter to the defense team of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Fitzgerald wrote: "We advise you that we have learned that not all e-mail 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."
Robert Luskin, personal attorney for Rove, told CNN Friday that he "has no reason to doubt" Fitzgerald's assertion that some White House e-mail was missing.
"You're quite right," Luskin said in a telephone interview. "There was a gap there."
Democrats charge this raises questions about whether the public has gotten the full story on everything from the CIA leak case to the fired U.S. attorneys controversy.
"The biggest problem here is really that here is a White House that is deliberately violating an existing statute that requires them to preserve all records," said Sloan. "And we have significant evidence now both from the RNC e-mail and the White House e-mail that are missing that the White House was using every means possible to avoid complying with the law."
Luskin said it was "foolish speculation" for CREW -- which serves as counsel to former ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, in a private suit against Rove and other Bush officials -- to suggest that the gap in White House e-mail helped Rove avoid indictment in the CIA leak case. Luskin said Fitzgerald told him that Rove was cleared in the case because he "did nothing wrong."
Luskin added that until this month, Rove believed his RNC e-mail was being archived and did nothing wrong.
"Rove has always understood from very early on in the Bush administration that RNC and campaign e-mail were being archived," said Luskin. "He was absolutely unaware until very, very recently that any e-mails were lost. And he never asked that e-mails be deleted or asked for the authority to delete e-mails."
CNN's Ed Henry and Lisa Goddard contributed to this report.

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SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- A preacher's wife told authorities she shot her husband after a long buildup of domestic problems, according to an audiotape that prosecutors played Friday at her murder trial.
Mary Winkler, 33, can be heard crying as she is questioned by Alabama officials a day after her husband, Matthew Winkler, was found shot dead in the parsonage of his church in this western Tennessee town.
His wife was arrested a day later on the Alabama coast, about 340 miles away, with their three young daughters.
Investigators have said she admitted shooting her husband on March 22, 2006, and that it had something to do with his constant criticism. On the tape, she says the couple's domestic problems had reached a boiling point after many years of conflict. (Watch Winkler react during opening statements  )
"It's just a lot of stupid stuff," she said. "I love him dearly, but gosh, he just nailed me in the ground. ... The first of our marriage, I just took it like a mouse, didn't think anything different. My mom just took it from my dad -- that stupid scenario."
But Winkler said she got a job at the post office and that experience taught her to stand up for herself. "That's the problem. I have nerve now, and I have self-esteem. My ugly came out."
Winkler told Alabama Bureau of Investigation agent Stan Stabler on the tape that her husband had threatened her physically. "He said something that really scared me. I don't know, something life-threatening," she said, without elaborating further.
But she also says she doesn't want her husband's name smeared.
"He was so good, so good, too. It was just a weakness. I think a lot of times he had high blood pressure that he'd never go enough to the doctor to get medicine for it. He was a mighty fine person, and that's the thing," she said.
"Just say, 'The lady was a moron, evil woman,' and let's go on with it. That's fine. ... That's my point of view."
Winkler's lawyer has said she intended to hold her husband at gunpoint only to force him to talk about his personal problems after a situation involving their 1-year-old daughter, Breanna, defense attorney Steve Farese said. The defense did not describe the situation.
A prosecutor has described Matthew Winkler as a good father and a man who trusted his wife.
Prosecutor Walt Freeland has said bank managers were closing in on a check-kiting scheme that Mary Winkler wanted to conceal from her husband. He said Mary Winkler had become caught up in a swindle known as the "Nigerian scam," which promises riches to victims who send money to cover the processing expenses.
But Farese said Mary Winkler handled the family finances only because she did everything her husband told her. He said she was abused verbally, emotionally and physically.
Winkler's trial could last up to two weeks. The jury -- including a Baptist minister and woman who said she had been a victim of domestic abuse -- will spend that time sequestered in a small-town motel without television, radio or cell phones.