Mind the Gap
By now you've probably heard about the 18-day gap in the 3,000 documents released by the DoJ on the U.S. attorney purge.
What's missing -- and what will be found -- in that gap is important to understanding the role the White House played in the purge. ThinkProgress explains:
The gap extends from mid-November to early December, “which was a critical period as the White House and Justice Department reviewed, then approved, which U.S. attorneys would be fired while also developing a political and communications strategy for countering any fallout from the firings.”
During today’s press briefing, CNN’s Ed Henry noted that one of the last emails before the gap is from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ ex-chief of staff Kyle Sampson to then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers, asking, “Who will determine whether this requires the president’s attention?”
White House spokesman Tony Snow refused to explain the gap, telling reporters, “I’ve been led to believe that there’s a good response for it.” He said President Bush “has no recollection of this ever being raised with him.”
What's in the gap?
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The gap surely contains evidence of the concern about Carol Lam's performance issues, because she had traced the 140k Brent Wilkes spent on the boat for Duke Cunningham to the VP's office, and she was about to start making noise about it. one can only dream.