Keith O revealed last night the REAL heads-up gap was 84 hours...

[Junkdrawer]

SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: The real question now is, Who did the chief of staff speak to? Did the chief of staff pick up the phone and call Karl Rove? Did the chief of staff pick up the phone and call anybody else? Ordinarily, you would think that immediately sending out an e-mail to every member of the staff and say—you know, you don't have to call them. Every one of those staff members carries around a Blackberry—and send an e-mail saying, Boom.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OLBERMANN: Boom, indeed. And there is another potentially explosive question to ponder tonight. What if that gap between when the counsel's office first knew that the investigation was at least imminent and when White House staff members were told not to destroy any documents was more than just 12 hours?

The timeline we have now: Monday evening, September 29, 2003, about 8:00 o'clock, Mr. Gonzales gets the official word from Justice. Literally minutes later, say, 8:05, he told Mr. Card. Tuesday morning, September 30, 2003, about 8:00 AM, he told everybody else.

But September 29 was probably not the first time he'd heard about the investigation, the story first reported on Friday night, September 26, by Alex Johnson and Andrea Mitchell on msnbc.com, nearly 72 hours earlier, making the gap until staffers were told 84 hours. Alex and Andrea wrote at that time the CIA had asked the Justice Department to “investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman's husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush's since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa, NBC News has learned.”

Oops.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8712995/

3 days between a private heads up and a staff alert sounds like obstruction of justice to me. Perhaps Gonzie is trying to make the unexplainable "84 hours" into the explainable "the next morning".

[jsamuel]

1. what... They told us before that... funny, cuz i didn't take advantage

I just sat around...

Waited...

Thought about my wife...

Then I got another phone call....

Then ....


On Edit:

So the 12 hour gap was a cleanup of the cleanup...

[mattclearing]

2. Oh, that's no big deal...

...after all, the White House is closed on weekends, right? They got right to it when they got back to the office, right?

:eyes:

[corky44]

3. The question had been why Gonzales came out

with the info on the gap with little prodding. Was his admission an
attempt to frame the issue away from the 84 hour gap?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Could be. Admit to a smaller "indescretion" rather than a larger one.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Maybe that's why he looked uncomfortable...he knew he was lying.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Par for the course

They admit to 12 hours...its gonna be much longer.
These people are pathological liars.
Why would we expect them to start ponying up the truth this late in the game?

[wtmusic]

7. Cheezus how long does it take to destroy some docs?

What happened to the Golden Age of corruption? Where are the Erlichmans, the Haldemans?