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Justice Department Documents Forthcoming

By Paul Kiel - April 13, 2007, 10:54AM

As promised, the Justice Department has turned over hundreds (we're not sure how many) of documents to the House and Senate judiciary committees.

We'll let you know as soon as they're publicly available.

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Posted by profmarcus
April 13, 2007 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink

Friday the 13th!!!

Which unlucky DOJ ex staffer will be DUMPED on????

Posted by Peter Duffy
April 13, 2007 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink

At this point it's apparent the WH is witholding (or deleting/shredding/hiding) anything especially relevant or important, either intending never to relinquish at all or to use as bargaining chips in the future. I'd look for all doc dumps in the near term to be mostly banal, innocuous stuff.

Posted by steve duncan
April 13, 2007 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink

Don't lose sight of the house on fire - with this woodshed distraction!

Posted by TheraP
April 13, 2007 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink

Good and needed move. There's a good discussion going on now at Kevin's WaMo (www.washingtonmonthly.com) about the related issue of the deleted and off-based emails about this issue. Kevin's threads attract many articulate and informed posters, as well as entertaining dextrotrolls like "Al."

Posted by Neil B.
April 13, 2007 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink

They'll put it in the George W. Bush presidential library, call it private property and not let anybody see it.

Posted by jeffgee
April 13, 2007 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink

What goes on between the documents being released and the documents being available online? My best guess is that the documents are released in paper form and then scanned by staff members to be released eventually as PDFs. Can you shed some light on how this release process works?

Posted by Jut
April 13, 2007 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink

They'll be posted here, shortly:
http://judiciary.house.gov/Printshop.aspx?Section=46?

Posted by FlyOnTheWall
April 13, 2007 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink

The House and Senate committee's involved in this investigation need to burn some midnight oil and subpoena the physical computer hardware (servers) at DOJ, the WH, and the RNC. Make the IT folks sweat that could or have possibly destroy the data on these servers or the servers themselves, so that no orders can follow to destroy hardware (servers and the like). The ISPs Smarttech and the like also need to receive subpoenas immediately. Why the delay?

It is as if Congress forgot how to work. No more DC parties until the necessary work is completed post haste.

Posted by tbhull
April 13, 2007 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink

code word "shame"

Posted by Ballerina x
April 13, 2007 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink

Sorry, bad URL. The first two sets are now available here:
http://judiciary.house.gov/Printshop.aspx?Section=472

Posted by FlyOnTheWall
April 13, 2007 11:30 AM | Reply | Permalink

Check out this link about some extra powers the Congress has to enforce investigation, that we don't hear much about:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/03/dusting_off_inh.html

Posted by Neil B.
April 13, 2007 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink

Why would U.s. attorneys be asked to go through a back ground check again?

Posted by kathleen
April 13, 2007 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink

THESE EMPTY DOCUMENTS ARE AN ATTEMPT TO RE-FOCUS OFF OF THE BURNING HOUSE OF LOST EMAIL.

Posted by Anonymous
April 13, 2007 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink

Which U.s. attorney's were offered the opportunity to go quietly? "to save face"

this line really gets me "Reagan and Clinton may have been pleased with the work of the U.S. attorneys who, after all, the had appointed".

I am just a peasant what do I know

Posted by kathleen
April 13, 2007 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink

If/when folks are able to scrutinize White House staff emails using RNC accounts, please don't forget about noting any signs of possible White House coordination with supposedly independent expenditure efforts by the RNC (if such issues apply). I realize that the emphasis of such scrutiny will be and should be on the attorney purge. And that the White House claims RNC emailing was used as a means for avoiding abuse of public resources for political ends. But I wonder if any emails reveal untoward coordination/collusion between the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign (and/or related persons)and any RNC IEs on behalf of Bush-Cheney. I'm just guessing that any such RNC IE effort took place on behalf of Bush-Cheney and that such legal constraints should therefore have been in the mix; even if that's the case, I have no idea whether possible violations actually took place. If this thought process has already been raised and addressed, my apologies.

Posted by PMN
April 13, 2007 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink