Fall Into The Gap

So there are 18 days that are practically unaccounted for in the DoJ's document dump. There are scattered emails from the time period between mid-November and early December, but very little, and even those are a bit irrelevant to the larger questions about the case.

But get this from Tony Snow at the press briefing this morning.

HENRY: You keep saying the Justice Department, the response, the 3,000 pages, unprecedented, it’s very responsive. Why then is these this gap from mid-November to about December 4, right before the actual firings? Why is there a gap in the emails?

SNOW: I don’t know, why don’t you ask them.

HENRY: Well, you’re the White House, the Justice Department serves under…

SNOW: I know, but I’m not going to be the fact witness on Justice.

HENRY: But you’re the one representing that be this has been very responsive. Now when there’s a gap, you say go to them —

SNOW: Yeah, and I’ve been led to believe — I’ve been led to believe that there’s a good response for it, but I’m going to let you ask them because they’re going to have the answer.

"I've been led to believe there's a good response for it." Sure there is; they're hiding something.

Interestingly, here's one of the last emails before the gap:



Man, this is getting interesting. Not to mention the fact that they're claiming executive privilege and that the executive had nothing to do with the firings AT THE SAME TIME.

I think K-Drum has this cold.

They’ve now had nearly two months to come up with a simple, clear, understandable explanation for why they chose those eight to fire but not the others. So what is it? And why has it taken such an interminable amount of internal chaos to come up with something?

People aren’t stupid. If there were a simple, innocent explanation we would have heard it in January. The fact that the president of the United States held a press conference eight weeks after this issue first hit the media and still didn’t have a plausible story to tell suggests pretty strongly that there is no plausible story to tell.

If they could only have gotten their stories straight from the beginning, we wouldn't have known about any of this. But they couldn't, and here we are.