Color me skeptical. Who would be fucking stupid enough to issue records with an 18 day email gap?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Why would they issue anything if there was such an obvious gap? Doesn't make sense. Anyone agree?

I hate these fuckers as much as anyone but I don't think even they are stupid enough to think no one would notice.

[wakeme2008]

1. W's friends

:rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Nixon released tapes with an 18 minute gap

this is feeling like Watergate on Steroids

[helderheid]

8. Watergate on Steroids

:applause:

[madinmaryland]

11. These guys make the watergate folks look like pikers!

[maddezmom]

3. they never make any sense do they?

I'm sure part of the gap is the WH included in the email chain, etc.

[fasttense]

4. They were all on vacation?

:shrug:

[Jacobin]

5. buying time

they had to release something, so they released the least bad part, I'm guessing. they read the emails from the 18 days and went holy shit, we can't let them see this crap!

They're stalling. want to make a deal. will 'forget they didn't sent those' and send them later when they have no choice

[Proud2BAmurkin]

10. could be

but it had to occur to them the missing records would be a big deal by the next day.

[malaise]

6. Arrogant SOBs who believe they

would not be caught this quickly.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

9. they would have to know the timeline would be the first thing any reporter checked

?

[gkhouston]

17. I don't think Bushco counted on the divide-and-conquer approach

of the blogosphere, which found the gap pretty quickly. A single reporter might take several days to piece together a good timeline, and the reporters might not be collaborating. Could be Bushco thought the scandal would have slipped off the front page before anyone really noticed the gap. Fools.

[Kber]

19. Good point

reporters don't collaborate - they compete.

and the WH has played to that competitive instinct quite nicely.

The internets represent an entirely different paradigm.

[malaise]

22. That's why they were caught so quickly n/t

[Spazito]

21. LOL, you are thinking of that "old" media, the one that actually

investigated and did research not the "new" media that cheer-leads the US into war, covers for the bush admin, etc.

The DOJ/WH had to release documents and the plan was to dump 3000 pieces of paper at the last minute hoping that the size of the dump would slow down the discovery of the 18 day gap. They still have not figured out that, with the internet and blogs like TPMmuckraker, such a work load can be portioned off to manageable bites and research done in very short order.

The mainstream media has only a few "researchers" on staff, the blogs, on the other hand, have hundreds at the ready on a moment's notice.

Edited to add missing punctuation.

[Jade Fox]

7. This woman....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=463756&mesg_id=463851

[Cameron27]

15. ROFL

Rosemary Woods. Look where it got Nixon, lol.

[EST]

12. The same idiots who would fire only eight USAs instead of

thirty or fifty, or all of them. Had they fired 'em all, they would've gotten away with it. Even thirty would have done the job. In order to be dictator of the world, you have to be smart rather than just sly.

[napi21]

16. I think most of the other 85 are probably playing their game, and they didn't

want to lost them! Why fire all 93 and have to test all those new bodies for loyalty?

[blogslut]

13. The truth is

...these aren't very bright guys.

R.I.P. Hal Holbrook

[truebrit71]

20. Wait a minute...when did Hal Holbrook pass away?

I can't remember that happening...

[blogslut]

26. He didn't. I suck.

I transposed him with Mark Felt. My apologies, Mr Holbrook. :0

[truebrit71]

33. Whew!!! I was gonna get mad at myself for missing that one...

...I've seen him do his Mark Twain Tonight! stage show twice...absolutely superb!

[LiberalFighter]

14. Only 18 days?

How about Part 11-5

Page 304 has an email dated 9/16/2006
Page 305 has an email dated 12/7/2006

That by my calculation 15+31+30+7 = 83 days

[napi21]

18. I wonder if they're just not going to say there weren't any emails

because that was the Thanksgiving break?

[LiberalFighter]

24. I wish my Thanksgiving break had been that long when I worked

[napi21]

27. OH! Me too! But they really do have a LONG break!

I personally don't believe the emails stopped just because of a break, but I'd bet they're going to try that excuse!

[Spazito]

28. That won't work, imo

The key is the topic that was discussed in the key e-mail on Nov.15th which detailed the "pre-execution" authorization they needed ie the President and from the "Rove shop". The next e-mail date is Dec.4th where the plan was a go, they had gotten the go-ahead.

To say there were NO e-mails between the need for authorization and the plan proceeding because of the Thanksgiving break won't sell given the whole issue was authorization for the "plan" to fire the attorneys and the PR plan after.

Edited to correct typo.

[sharp_stick]

31. That won't work

these losers are addicted to their crackberries like nobody else I've ever seen. I was in a club in DC a couple of years ago and you could ID the Government losers by their suits, stick up the ass walking style and always clicking crackberry. This was at midnight too.

I don't think they would go more than 5 or 10 waking minutes without checking and replying to everyone in their address book.

[Kber]

23. They are all out of date order and filled with fluff

probably to try to hide the gap.

I mean, they included the transcripts from the congressional hearings. I imagine that the committee could have gotten that on their own.

Plus every time someone responded to an e-mail, they included and repeated the entire thread. I'll bet 50 - 75% of the stuff in that 3000+ pages of released documents consists of repeated information and / or information already public.

[napi21]

30. That's called papering over the opposition. All lawyers will try that

in hopes there'll be soo much paper people will just be overwhelmed! Of course, that won't work in this case. There are WAY too many eyes looking at these docs. 3,000 docs divided up to 30 people can be reviewed pretty quick! And I think there were more than 30 people reviewing.

It's getting interesting folks, and this is just the beginning!

[LiberalFighter]

35. I haven't seen any out of date yet and that particular document was

only one that I viewed with substantial period missing.

[cassiepriam]

25. The American public has bought almost everything else they sold.

Why not this. They will come up with some lame excuse
the media and public will like.

[John Q. Citizen]

29. Snow said at today's presser that there is a "good reason." He just doesn't

know it yet.

[gkhouston]

34. I wonder how often he has to get his nose shortened? n/t

[Carni]

32. They're arrogant and used to getting their way

Nothing surprises me about these clowns--they just assume they'll get away with everything!