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DOJ Cancels "E-Discovery" Training For Office of Special Counsel
Today is U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch's big morale-boosting "retreat" over at a swanky hotel across the river in Alexandria, VA.
As we noted last week, there was something a bit preposterous about the day's schedule -- Bloch hosting a training session about how to obtain email evidence when he himself is under FBI investigation for deleting emails.
It looks like the Department of Justice agreed. A DOJ official that was scheduled to lead the "E-Discovery Training" seminar (Scott Bain from the Civil Division) backed out at the last minute, leaving a 90-minute hole in the "retreat" that Bloch had set up to boost morale.
"It's a case of scheduling and we're trying to reschedule it," Charles Miller, a spokesman for DOJ, told TPMmuckraker this morning.
Josh
Zachary
although the lapse is 90 minutes, the taxpayers will still pay for the entire hour and a half... enough money to pay for a few attorneys, I suspect...
June 25, 2008 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rather embarrassingly for Bloch, he showed up for the seminar anyway, having deleted the e-mail from Bain telling him not to bother and having long since buried his BlackBerry inside Jimmy Hoffa's colon.
June 25, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scott Bloch loves kittens.
June 25, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
And we are still paying this fascist fu(k? How long would any of you stay in your positions if you wandered around and deleted company correspondence? Not long, I promise - but that is not how our *cough democracy works within the bush administration. Party over country - always.
June 25, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy hell! On and on and on and on...the criminal behavior at every level of government is sanctioned with a shrug of the shoulders by our blinkered reps.
Special Counsel indeed. He was put into the wrong slot. He was hired for the Specious Counsel position. It's just a mix up with the alphabet.
June 25, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
They thought it was for the Special Olympics.
June 25, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Either linked the wrong hotel or it's not in Alexandria. The Monaco's nice. But not swanky.
June 25, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scott Bloch is just awesome. His experience with destroying evidence, and turning underlings into online sockpuppets, makes him the perfect chairman of an e-discovery bootcamp. In fact, the only part he's still struggling with is that "not getting caught" thing...
June 26, 2008 9:07 AM | Reply | Permalink