DoJ officials never told to preserve documents.
By on May 14th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
DoJ officials never told to preserve documents.
“According to one staffer involved in the investigation, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer and former Gonzales chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson all told investigators privately that Justice had never instructed them to preserve all documents related to the dismissals.”
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May 14th, 2007 at 5:21 pmThat’s convenient!!
May 14th, 2007 at 5:23 pmARREST and TORTURE every swingin’ dick and Jane…
…until we find out the truth…
May 14th, 2007 at 5:28 pmCan you say Arthur Anderson?
May 14th, 2007 at 5:32 pmThey are lawyers. They are expected to know.
May 14th, 2007 at 5:34 pmRight!!??!!@#$%^ And if anyone believes that bold-faced lie, then it’s time to sell them some swampland in Louisiana for cripe’s sakes…..who do they think they’re kidding? It’s the law and they know it well. If they don’t, then this DOJ is a larger group of charlatans and buffoons than we even know!
May 14th, 2007 at 5:58 pmVerbalkilt – great minds think alike, eh? We’ve done this more than once with our posts crossing in cyberspace, haven’t we?
May 14th, 2007 at 5:59 pmBulls**t
When I conduct business via email, fax, or letter, I ALWAYS keep a copy. It’s a CYA thing. If I ever have to prove that I took any action.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:05 pmThese guys are lawyers — it should be second nature to them.
And they went for the ‘My dog ate my homework’ tactic.
What incompetence! Do they really expect that to fly?
May 14th, 2007 at 6:09 pm8. Marie is close to making the point I wanted to make.
If I did things right and think there is a chance of litigation, I intentionally leave a massive paper trail. I email my secretary. I write memos to myself. Any way I can document that I did the right and honorable thing.
Then I think of when I worked for a government agency. Protocol was slanted heavily to leaving a papertrail for even the most trivial action. You assumed there may be a future question of what you did. So you documented, documented, documented.
Now if I wanted to hide what I did, that would be another matter entirely.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:12 pm#8 #10
Exactly! CYA. I save old emails, documents, etc. to CMA and have been served well by that practice on several occasions.
Sounds like there was an obvious attempt to cover someone’s trail.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:21 pmsniff, sniff, what do I smell? What do I smell? Smells like……..coverup to me.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:34 pmThese idiots are lawyers? Maybe they are just criminals.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:55 pmMaple street :
May 14th, 2007 at 7:27 pmgreat minds……
Lieing sack’s of shit, every one in the administration..I have friend’s working in diffrent branches of the gov. and it has alway’s been keep copies of everything… Even down to the post it note’s have to be saved..These lieing basterd’s think we are all stupid and slow witted like they are…The way it’s going the rep’s or any one remotely republican will be out of office forever..That’s the only good thing about this bunch….Blessings
May 14th, 2007 at 9:39 pmYou’re lawyers, for f*ck’s sake! Lying sacks of shit!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:49 pmIs Alberto Gonzales next to go?
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-justice-official-resigns-begging.html#links
May 14th, 2007 at 10:26 pmbig papa is right. The shredders were running 24/7.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:01 am>They are lawyers. They are expected to know.
right. not only that, whoever the legal counsel for the justice department is needs to be disbarred, if they truly didnt tell anyone to preserve evidence thats potential ground for disbarment.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:27 amIs this a social experiment to see if the Sheeople are stupid enough for Cheney to run for President?
May 15th, 2007 at 9:13 am