Thursday, March 22, 2007

Times: Document gap evident in material turned over by Bush administration

While it would be a stretch to say the current investigation into the firing of eight U. S. attorneys has any similarity to Watergate, today's New York Times story revealing a large time gap in e-mails and documents turned over by the Bush Administration indicates some kind of coverup appears to be happening.
According to the Times article, while legislators were overloaded with documents from the time period following the Dec. 7 announcement of the firings, there are almost no documents from between Nov. 16 and Dec. 7, when all the action presumably was happening:

From Nov. 16 to Dec. 7, there are only a handful of e-mail messages, a fact that Talking Points Memo, a Web site that has been following the furor with microscopic attention, pointed out Wednesday morning.

"Shades of Rose Mary Woods? An 18-day gap?" said a posting by the blog’s owner, Joshua Micah Marshall, referring to President Richard M. Nixon’s secretary, who found herself on the spot after the discovery that 18 1/2 minutes of crucial White House tapes had been erased.

Asked Wednesday about the apparent gap in the documents, Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, referred the question to the Justice Department.

Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said, "The department has provided or made available to Congress all the documents responsive to Congress’s requests over the time period in question." He added, "To the extent there was a lull in communications concerning the U.S. attorney issues, it reflects the fact that we have found no responsive documents from that time period, which included the Thanksgiving holiday."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Randy, it does remind me of Nixon's "Watergate" time gap tothose of us who were voters at that time. But compared to Bush,I never thought I would say NEVER THOUGHT I'D MISS NIXON ~ ROFL

Anonymous said...

Reality check: you guys think Bush stole two elections, started an illegal war, attempted genocide in New Orleans (and possibly caused the Hurricane to begin with), covered for pedophiles in Congress, is responsible for global warming, leaked the name of a top-secret CIA agent, went AWOL during Viet-Nam, and is responsible for bad vibrations in general.

If you could not impeach Bush over any of those issues why would you think you could get him (or Rove) for asking for the resignation of some Republican political appointees?

Also, do you really think replacing Iraq in the headlines with this story is all that harmful to Bush? Frankly, as a Republican I don’t mind discussing this issue for as long as Democrats are willing to accommodate me. In my view it is a political cul-de-sac for Democrats, it leads nowhere useful to your side. As much as you might wish it to be otherwise, firing (or asking for the resignation) of at-will employees is not a crime. Ergo, so long as administration officials avoid the perjury trap, there is really nothing your side can do over this issue besides raise a stink (and whatever stink you raise will smell sweet compared to Iraq). In fact, it smells to me like Rove is playing you people for chumps yet again.

Anonymous said...

Pride comes before the fall

Anonymous said...

Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president: Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Ammendment, Yale Law School, September 22, 2002

Anonymous said...

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. "In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. "The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war. and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." : James Madison, April 20, 1795

Anonymous said...

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise" : Adolf Hitler - German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party

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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -" : George W. Bush - 43rd US President

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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.: Sir Winston Churchill