BREAKING on Countdown: Document dump has just happened.

[originalpckelly]

Documents...coming within the hour. None available on House or Senate Judiciary websites as of yet.

House posted the last batch. We'll where they come from. Start searching for links folks.

Document dump = the expected turning over of e-mails from the Department of Justice to a third party, presumably a judiciary committee of the Congress.

Keith Olbermann just said that it happened on Countdown just a few minutes ago.

[jannyk]

1. Just announced they may have some up by end of show nt

[napi21]

2. He just he might get some of those docs before he's off the air tonight!

UH OH!!!!!!

[ProudToBeLiberal]

3. don't have access to cable, what does this mean?

thanks

[Skittles]

5. means the repukes are running around like cockroaches when the light is turned on

they are freaking out

[Bjornsdotter]

8. What a beautiful image...

....brings a tear to my eye. Now let's step on the little buggers.

Cheers

[Skittles]

13. f*** that, too much work and messes up my shoes

I just want to use one of those fogger things on the whole corrupt misadministration

[badgerpup]

28. Reminds me of an old song heard on Dr. Demento...

Kill, kill, kill! kill! kill! (dooo-wah)
Everybody do the Cockroach Stomp!
:rofl:

[Bjornsdotter]

31. Getting my stomping shoes on!

...with music to dance to.

Cheers :hi:

[wicket]

16. Sunlight is the best antiseptic

:D

[sellitman]

23. Great analogy!

Kooky Roaches!

[Cameron27]

6. I don't know, just turned it on..

400 pages of something.

Someone please explain!

[Kagemusha]

9. I've heard it could be 2000.

We'll see soon. I mean, Congress can't know what's in all of that either. Yet.

[Cameron27]

10. Thanks,

as many as 2000 pages! Amazing week!

[Canuckistanian]

30. Patience, grasshopper

It is wrong to tip the vessel of knowledge too quickly.

The Clenis wasn't built in a day.

Or something.

[Bucky]

14. To answer your question, ProudTo, it's a DocDump in the US Atty firings cover up

They fired prosecutors for purely political reasons that, while not illegal, is so highly unethical that they lied about it. Of course the lying about it is illegal... in spades. What's more, it's looking like in the case of US Atty Lam of California, she was fired to keep her from continuing an investigation in the Abramoff bribary scandal. This may turn out to be illegal (altho possibly not so for those in the government since by law US Attorneys serve to pleasure the president.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

18. Thanks Bucky! nt

[NightWatcher]

4. this week rocks

Long live Gonzo


this shit is better than sex

[originalpckelly]

7. Indeed it is.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Nah.

Close, though.

[Seldona]

11. Still nothing at House Judiciary Commitee site.

http://judiciary.house.gov/default.aspx

Last document dump they have up is from 3/13. Will be checking often. Thanks for the heads up.

[Bucky]

12. Another example of White House incompentance. They did a Doc Dump on a Monday

Attention all Mi- and Lihoppers: They can't even cover up right!

[Recursion]

22. It's a rookie mistake they didn't make previously

This administration has been conscientious about doing it's document dumps on Friday; the fact that this one came out on Monday in prime time tells me stuff is in a tailspin at Justice and nobody is in charge -- probably fallout from the chief of staff's resignation.

[ProgressiveFool]

29. They must not have thought they'd make it to Friday

:)

[wicket]

15. K & R

:kick:

[NightWatcher]

19. abc link

Nothing ground breaking, but the first words are that the White House were involved big time.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2964201&page=1

[originalpckelly]

20. Thanks!

:hi:
I would have updated the original post, but unfortunately the editing period expired.

[NightWatcher]

21. I'm still digging for the emails

[originalpckelly]

24. This isn't the e-mails, but it's about one of them that could be even worse for Gonzo:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070319/exclusive_why_doj_is_sweating.htm

"U.S. News's Chitra Ragavan has learned that one day after Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified on Capitol Hill about the reasons eight U.S. attorneys were summarily fired, a Justice Department spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse--who was traveling abroad with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Argentina -- sent an E-mail to McNulty saying Gonzales was unhappy with McNulty's testimony regarding why U.S. attorney Bud Cummins of Arkansas had been let go. That E-mail is what is causing the most concern at the Justice Department among the 2000 pages of documents about to be released on Capitol Hill in the next hour.

On February 6, McNulty acknowledged during contentious testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Cummins had been fired because the administration wanted to name Timothy Griffin, a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove, who had also worked for the Republican National Committee. But McNulty said the firings of the other prosecutors were related to their poor performance. "


This looks bad, very bad.

[WinkyDink]

27. I think you mean "good, very good"! :)

[MelissaB]

25. Thanks for that!

:hi:

[NightWatcher]

26. CNN: just said that 3000 documents were released

still searching for details

[SlowDownFast]

32. Documents Up!

From http://judiciary.house.gov/:

What's New

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3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-1
3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-2
3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-3
3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-4
3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-5
3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-6
3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-7


Lots and lots to sift through.

:popcorn:

[wicket]

33. kick

:kick:

[Chimichurri]

34. Did the White House release them or the DOJ? If it's the DOJ

does the WH have the ability to keep certain documents from being released?