Major document dump expected today.
From a press conference with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) earlier this afternoon:
QUESTION: (OFF-MIC) expecting more documents.
SCHUMER: Today.
QUESTION: Do you know how many (OFF-MIC)
SCHUMER: There’s supposed to be about a thousand pages of documents. It’s supposed to come about 4 or 5 o’clock. We know nothing about what’s in them.
QUESTION: Do you know whether they cover any of your redacted…
SCHUMER: We do not. We do not. We know nothing about what’s in them. We just know it’s a lot, and it’s coming in the late afternoon.
UPDATE: “A very senior source who has seen the latest batch of documents to be delivered to the Senate says Sen. Chuck Schumer is wrong in estimating that the Department of Justice will dump about 1,000 pages related to the U.S. attorney firings sometime between 4 and 5 p.m. EDT. As the afternoon drags on, it is looking more likely that the dump will slip to either very late Thursday or Friday.”
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I know this is nit-picking but the word is “mic” not “mike”.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:38 pmbush calls gonzales: “amigo we need to get leahy and iraq off the air, watchagot?”
gonzales: “patron, i have the transcripts of you and henry e-mailing each other about who is more like truman.”
bush: “back that truck up to the senate son and let er rip!”
April 12th, 2007 at 3:40 pmThousands of pages of
All work and no play makes George a dull boy
April 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pmAll work and no play makes George a dull boy
All work and no play makes George a dull boy
Thanks. That wasn’t our transcription but we fixed it anyway. :)
-Nico
April 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pmThey’re doing a docu-dump on a THURSDAY?? Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess.
I expect this will be a “see, we’re cooperating” docu-dump, i.e. not much of importance in it, but the point is to publicize the appearance of compliance, without fully complying.
Nitpick redux: my (American Heritage) dictionary lists “mike” as slang for microphone, but it doesn’t list “mic” at all.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pmThe truck has a flat tire, docudump will occur Friday night @2359 hrs.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:51 pm1,000 pages.
4,999,000 to go.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:06 pmWait ,wait. First Joe-the-jackass takes a big dump, then John-the-joke takes a big dump and now the Just-us department has another big dump for us.
Oh heavenly day.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:09 pmOf course it’ll be Friday. It’s always Friday.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pmRe Update: As the afternoon drags on, it is looking more likely that the dump will slip to either very late Thursday or Friday.â€
Must be some good shit in that stack.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pmThe White House must simply hate the 5 day Congressional work week……
April 12th, 2007 at 4:11 pmFriday the 13th is always a good day to make a huge dump.
You can smell this all the way up to the frozen tundra of MN., by the way. Everyone says, ‘nice day, but what’s that smell’?
I respond by saying, ‘I believe it’s a Bush Dump. Get used to them, more will be coming.’
Ahhh, the smell of the Burning Bush in springtime. If it’s not CO2, it’s RO2. (Republican Odor, 2nd verse.)
April 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pmI think both ‘mike’ and ‘mic’ are acceptable.
All we can do is pick nits until the dump is dumped..
April 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pmIn order to win at getting these war-monging fool’s out the dem’s need to shut their mouth’s and have supones in hand with armed marshels and confiscate upon serving….Giving this bunch of rat basterd’s any time ever will accomplish nothing….They will shred, hide, lie and scrub at will when they have notice….They need to be treated like the law breaker’s they are…Geees, even this old woman know’s that and I would out smart them by suprise investigation’s period…Will they ever learn….I’m telling ya I could do a better job, ya want to win against killers and thieves, ya got to out think them and that’s easy, don’t tell them your plan, just do it…Period…Blessings all
April 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pmI have lots of room these days.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pm-
Perfect….just in time to smear the Republicans all weekend long on the talk shows! Perfect timing!
April 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pmThe White House is now the Dump ground.
Instead of Dumbya, it’s now Dumpya.
Well, we’ll dump you next, Dumbya.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pmYou know, with a country full of people aching to find evidence of wrongdoing in the administration, you’d think that giving them a weekend to read and post in time for the Monday newscycle would have lost some glitter in the WH. (Of course, we still depend on the MSM to pick it up, but those in the know, know sooner.)
April 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pmThe term “mic” is 60’s techspeak, an abbreviation that took up less space when written below a channel fader on a mixing board, ex: voc mic 1.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:50 pmI expect this dump on the traditional Friday afternoon, it will probably contain something sensational, but not germane to the main issue.
Check your Merriam-Webster. “Mike,” which dates back to 1924, has a much longer pedigree than “mic,” which began cropping up in the early sixties.
Valentinian is correct that both spellings are considered acceptable.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:32 pmOh God, I hope it’s late Friday! If they’re putting it off ’til late Friday, it can only mean that there’s gnarly stuff in there. If it was innocuous, they’d have delivered it today. Friday’s are getting to be like Christmas, with new presents to unwrap. Can you see the speed with which this administration is auguring into the ground increasing daily?
April 12th, 2007 at 8:01 pmmic is short for microphone
April 12th, 2007 at 11:06 pmwhat’s mike short for? mikerophone?
CHIMPya WISHES HE COULD INCLUDE SOME OF HIS TURDS IN THAT THERE DOCUMENT DUMP—SHOWING HIS SOCIOPATHIC SENSE OF POTTY-HUMOR FROM THIS SHIT-FOR-BRAINS, ALSO KNOWN AS Rove FOR BRAINS!!!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 11:55 pmThe ‘mike’ vs ‘mic’ debate could go on forever. As a musician AND a writer, I prefer the older ‘mike’. But the bottom line is this: BOTH words ‘look’ wrong. Neither of them satisfy the eye, and for some reason deep inside our brains, one word or the other makes us stop in the middle of what would otherwise be a seamless read.
Especially when somebody points it out…;-)
April 12th, 2007 at 11:55 pm[…] the House Judiciary Committee released a new set of documents from the Department of Justice relating to the firings of eight U.S. […]
April 13th, 2007 at 1:11 pmJust what is George trying to hide?
April 14th, 2007 at 3:07 pmImus For President Of the NAACP
April 14th, 2007 at 3:18 pm