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Title: Paging Rose Mary Woods: '18-Day Gap' in Release of Latest Emails in 'AttorneyGate'
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Published: Mar 21, 2007
Author: E&P Staff
Post Date: 2007-03-21 16:58:24 by aristeides
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Paging Rose Mary Woods: '18-Day Gap' in Release of Latest Emails in 'AttorneyGate' By E&P Staff Published: March 21, 2007 9:35 AM ET NEW YORK As each day passes, the phrase "shades of Watergate" appears more and more often in the press regarding the conflict surrounding the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys. There was the hiring of former Nixon legal adviser Fred Fielding (he was once rumored to be Deep Throat) by President Bush, the selective release of documents, the threat to oppose subpoenas -- and now something reminiscent of the famous "18 1/2 minute gap." Mike Allen writes for The Politico, "In DOJ documents that were publicly posted by the House Judiciary Committee, there is a gap from mid-November to early December in e-mails and other memos, which was a critical period as the White House and Justice Department reviewed, then approved, which U.S. attorneys would be fired while also developing a political and communications strategy for countering any fallout from the firings." The blog Talking Points Memo, which has followed this scandal closest for the longest time, did the math and found out that the gap is 18 days, and promptly compared it to the "18 1/2 minute gap" from Watergate -- when a key part of a Nixon tape suddenly went blank. Nixon blamed it on his secretary Rose Mary Woods, while others suspected the president himself. The missing information was erased. That may not be true in the current conflict. Asked about the gap today, Tony Snow, White House spokesman said, "I've been led to believe that there's a good response for it, and I'm going to let you ask them (DOJ) because they're going to have an answer."
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
Need to remember that answer if I ever need to cover my ass. LOFL
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
gotta love it It's the little things that can cause a trip and fall.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
With the way people use e-mail, an 18 minute, or 18 second gap is far too many e-mails to go missing. Still though... When Clinton fired everyone, which was indeed politically motivated, nobody said a word. Why the big bruhaha over Bush doing it? Most of the people in question he put in place!
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
That's 18 days. It was Nixon who lost 18.5 minutes on a tape.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I know about Nixon, which is why I think this is so funny people are not understanding the full breadth of how unbelievable it is that there's an 18 day gap in e-mails. I myself correspond with about a hundred people a day via e-mail. Most of whom I write to. If I let it go over a day, they start calling. Now, I'm just your average guy. Imagine what kind of issues non-communication arise when you're in an official capacity. I also remembered something about Duke Cunningham, supposedly getting money passed to him through official channels and such, and that was why Carol Lam was fired I believe. It's truly an interesting time to be alive in this country.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
Sen. Patrick Leahy: "It is not helpful to be telling the Senate how to do our investigation."
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
House panel OKs subpoenas of Bush aides Rove, Meirs and Sampson.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
I myself correspond with about a hundred people a day via e-mail. Oh good, sorry I missed your humor. 100 emails a day is a lot. Supposedly the "smart" crooked ones, don't use emails or IMs (poor Foley).
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's not just any 18 days either. It's the 18-day period ending just a couple of days before the Pearl Harbor Day when the U.S. Attorneys got the phone calls telling them they were fired. There must have been a lot of e-mailing going on in the Justice Department and the White House during that period.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Tony Snow, White House spokesman said, "I've been led to believe that there's a good response for it, and I'm going to let you ask them (DOJ) because they're going to have an answer."
#2. To: aristeides, *Impeachment* (#0)
The blog Talking Points Memo, which has followed this scandal closest for the longest time, did the math and found out that the gap is 18 days, and promptly compared it to the "18 1/2 minute gap" from Watergate -- when a key part of a Nixon tape suddenly went blank.
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#4. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
#5. To: robin (#4)
#6. To: aristeides (#0)
#7. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
I know about Nixon, which is why I think this is so funny people are not understanding the full breadth of how unbelievable it is that there's an 18 day gap in e-mails.
#9. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
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