IMPORTANT FOLLOW-UP MESSAGE FROM COUNSEL'S OFFICE 

This communication is a follow-up to the directive I sent you 
this morning regarding the preservation of certain materials in 
the possession of the White House, its staff, or its employees.  

Pursuant to a request from the Department of Justice, I am 
instructing you to preserve and maintain the following: 

"[F]or the time period February 1, 2002 to the present, all 
documents, including without limitation all electronic records, 
telephone records of any kind (including but not limited to 
any records that memorialize telephone calls having been made), 
correspondence, computer records, storage devices, notes, 
memoranda, and diary and calendar entries, that relate in any way to:

1.      Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, his trip to 
Niger in February 2002, and/or his wife's purported 
relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency;

2.      Contacts with any member or representative of the news 
media about Joseph C. Wilson, his trip to Niger in February 2002, 
and/or his wife's purported relationship with the Central 
Intelligence Agency; and

3.      Contacts with reporters Knut Royce, Timothy M. Phelps, 
or Robert D. Novak, or any individual(s) acting directly or 
indirectly, on behalf of these reporters."

            You must preserve all documents relating, in any way, 
directly or indirectly, to these subjects, even if there would 
be a question whether the document would be a presidential or 
federal record or even if its destruction might otherwise be 
permitted.

            If you have any questions regarding any of the foregoing, 
please contact Associate Counsels Ted Ullyot or Raul Yanes in 
the Counsel to the President's Office.

Alberto R. Gonzales 

Counsel to the President 

Document courtesy of Federation of American Scientists, appearing as part of collection
on White House Memos on Wilson/Plame Leak Investigation page.
Reprinted by Permission.