It's not a 'gap', it's a 'lull'

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/washington/22gap.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Democrats See a ‘Document Gap’ in Dismissals


By ERIC LIPTON and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: March 22, 2007

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An e-mail message that day to Mr. Sampson from Ms. Miers’s office said: “We’re a go for the US Atty plan. WH leg, political, and communications have signed off and acknowledge that we have to be committed to following through once the pressure comes.”

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.”

[The Count]

1. Riight! There was a "lull" in the Nixon tapes too, I recall....

[valerief]

4. Yeah, Nixon had the 18 minute gap, Bush has the 18 day gap.

What the hell is it with number 18?

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Time to go ahead and pull Kyle Sampson in

Drill him, grill him, and watch the WH sweat.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. As if we are to believe...

That the business dealings of these metastatic assclowns suddenly went into suspended animation?

As if.

Their every action, there every dealing in this affair and the dealings to come will inform the attentive person as to the contempt these jerkoffs hold for the people of America, its laws and its institutions. And, I predict, The Bill of Rights.

[Solly Mack]

5. Then what server has the emails regarding emails to and from

"Karl's Shop" ?

And if those messages were hand delivered, where are those papers?

They can say what they want BUT - the "gap" hints - and hints strongly - that there are other messages involving "Karl's Shop" because in one it states that there should be no go ahead with the "plan" until they run it by "Karl's Shop"


and assorted other emails that show Rove's involvement throughout the process...but in that "lull" where they are actively discussing "executing" the "plan", the messages abruptly stop - and where you would expect a reply to come next...you get emails starting back up 18 days later on the 4th relating to the "plan" but NOT relating to the inquiry of the last email sent in November regarding "Karl's Shop"...You do get a message saying the WH leg has "signed off" on the plan...so where are the messages that indicate how the WH leg was informed and what the WH leg had to say about the plan exactly?

Sampson tells Miers that they want HER to tell "Karl's Shop" - and that they are waiting on HER to give them the green light to "go"

So how did Miers inform "Karl's Shop"? And where are those communications?

If such exist in the documents, I haven't gotten to that part yet..so if anyone has..please post.

[halobeam]

6. kick