Paralysis Sets In As DOJ Faces Crisis

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March 19, 2007 | 6:21 PM ET | Permanent Link
More from chief legal affairs correspondent Chitra Ragavan:

The Justice Department is expected to release more than 400 pages of E-mails and documents by close of business today to comply with a demand from Democrats in Congress over the growing crisis regarding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year. The crisis has engulfed the department and threatens to cut short Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's tenure.

Update: The Justice Department now says the document dump will contain closer to 2000 documents.

"You have no idea," said one Justice official, "how bad it is here."

The fear that virtually any piece of communication will have to be turned over has paralyzed department officials' ability to communicate effectively and respond in unison to the crisis, as has the fact that senior Justice officials themselves say they still don't know the entire story about what happened that led to the crisis. So they are afraid that anything they put down on paper could be viewed as lies or obfuscation, when in fact, the story is changing daily as new documents are found and as the Office of Legal Counsel conducts its own internal probe into the matter.

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1. I kind of get the feeling that we DO have an idea of how bad it is there,

and that's why we want Gonzales gone.

And McNulty, too.

And an investigation along with their departures.

This document dump should provide some interesting insights.

[msongs]

2. this fish stinks from the HEAD nt

[Cha]

3. Oh what a tangled web we

weave once we practice to deceive. bertie never learned that one at his mother's or daddy's knee. Neither did mcnulty or any of the other multitudes of bushitbots.

So, yeah, I imagine it's way BAD!