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updated 12:11 p.m. ET March 12, 2008

WASHINGTON - An ethics advocacy group has asked the FBI to investigate the White House e-mail controversy, saying electronic messages about the Valerie Plame affair may have been destroyed.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is basing its request on a White House document describing an effort to recover a week's worth of missing e-mail in 2003 from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

White House technicians eventually retrieved e-mail from the missing week, but it is unclear whether other e-mail from the vice president's office that week has not been found. Federal prosecutors sought the e-mail in the probe of who in the Bush administration leaked Plame's CIA identity.

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Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the Plame investigation.

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