CNN: 2,000 page document dump tonight.

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/19/cnn-2000-page-document-dump-tonight/

CNN: 2,000 page document dump tonight.

CNN’s Dana Bash reports, “We expect on the Senate and the House side, the Judiciary Committees, they are expecting a good old-fashioned document dump, Wolf. Lots and lots of pages. In fact, they expect as many as 2,000 pages of documents to come late in the day, maybe even as late as 7:00 tonight. All they understand from the Justice Department is that these documents will be e-mails and other internal pages that could provide “additional insight” into just why these U.S. Attorneys were fired.”

[Divernan]

1. So this will be an excuse to delay live testimony from Rove, et al?

And keep Alberto in place for a couple of more weeks.

[babylonsister]

4. I think politicians and journalists have been salivating

over the prospects of this all weekend (originally supposed to be dumped Friday). They should make fast work of digging out the nuggets.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Gosh, Wolf! Ya think there's been enough time to gin up some fake documents?

Gosh O Golly! Ya think there's a way that these documents can have altered dates to look like these are the real deal?

My Goodness-O-Rama! Ya think any news pundits or Congress ritters will question authenticity?? :eyes:

[Joanne98]

3. I wonder how long it will take to report them. They should just put

them on line..

[alfredo]

5. I was hoping it was coming. I am sure they have a huge team

to take care of the mess. Gonzo probably has them shuffled to make it even harder for the Senators.

[Purveyor]

6. 2,000 pages isn't that huge. Not even a full document archive box.

Split it between 10 staffers and a cursory review wouldn't take that long.

[BeliQueen]

7. I agree

20 staffers would be better. Shoot, post a request to help on DU, I bet they'd get enough volunteers to go through that stash in an hour.

[Cobalt-60]

8. Count me in - I'm up all night every night

[ray of light]

9. I'll go!

[redacted]

10. Cool!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[NightWatcher]

11. Rahm Emanuel on Hardball just said that the dump was on

Who will break the first details from the dump?

[senseandsensibility]

12. The press has them?

Is anyone talking about what's in them?

[NightWatcher]

15. Herr Wolfie just said that they will get them out as soon as they can

Whose office has them, Senate Judiciary?

[Spazito]

13. My bet is TPM will do the honors

They have been on top of this well before anybody else.

[H2O Man]

16. Yes.

Very interesting.

[Justice Is Comin]

14. This just makes me giddy

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fusnews%2Fblogs%2Fnews_blog%2F070319%2Fparalysis_sets_in_as_doj_faces.htm




Update: The Justice Department now says the document dump will contain closer to 2000 documents.

"You have no idea," said one Justice official, "how bad it is here."

The fear that virtually any piece of communication will have to be turned over has paralyzed department officials' ability to communicate effectively and respond in unison to the crisis, as has the fact that senior Justice officials themselves say they still don't know the entire story about what happened that led to the crisis. So they are afraid that anything they put down on paper could be viewed as lies or obfuscation, when in fact, the story is changing daily as new documents are found and as the Office of Legal Counsel conducts its own internal probe into the matter.

The paralysis will affect the calculations that Gonzales must make this week as to whether he should stay or go. If Gonzales doesn't resign, there's little doubt that he will get few of his initiatives through for the rest of his tenure and that his people will spend months churning out documents at the behest of angry Democrats who will be investigating virtually anything that moves. But this could also give Gonzales an exit strategy, officials say. He could say that while neither he nor his subordinates did anything wrong, he has decided to resign for the greater good of the department and for justice at large.

The Bush administration is making its own calibrated calculations. A stubbornly loyal individual, the president has had trouble cutting his ties to his embattled cabinet secretaries. However, if he chooses to keep Gonzales on, he is at risk of seriously eroding political capital at a time when his administration is being criticized even by party loyalists.

But if he decides to let him go, then who can fill Gonzales's place? For one thing, who would want the job? And who could Bush find that could get Senate confirmation, since Democrats now run the show? It would have to be a seasoned insider, a consummate veteran or an elder statesman who has bipartisan respect and acceptance and a squeaky-clean record.

[halobeam]

17. kick for Wow

[NightWatcher]

18. Keith said to expect them within the hour

I'm so excited I need a cold shower