24 hours to clean the mess.

[dave29]

I was wondering where I had seen this 24 hour delay before... then it hit me

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/02_ashcroft.html

It Appears that Ashcroft Gave the White House 24 Hours to "Clean Up" Their Files Before A Memo Was Sent to Save Documents: Who Will Investigate the Justice Department for Potentially Facilitating Obstruction of Justice?

You may want to go to NPR's web site to get the transcript and the exact wording of Nina Totenberg's comments on the Morning Show, 6a.m. EDT segment, Thurs. 10/2/03.

She was discussing the limits on the Justice Dept. professionals, for instance that they can not on their own call a journalist before a Grand Jury.

She stated that at the request of the White House, the DOJ deferred for 24 hours the request that all documents, email, logs be held and preserved in the investigation of the Plame outing.

[Wickerman]

1. Justice Department

what a misnomer.

[TomInTib]

2. They had 48 hours between notification and Ashcroft's action...

so in reality they had 72 hrs to clean up.

Same as Ollie in Iran/Contra.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I think they needed to wait till the dude woke up again

They must have had a heck of a time reviving him and cleaning him up before they went to the hospital, three hours later.

[xxqqqzme]

4. don't you just love the lastest hair-do toss in

'well NO government likes'.........(insert whatever the criminals R currently trying 2 get away with here).