Patrick Fitzgerald had this to say about the Office of the Vice President and the Executive Office of the President:

My tummy aches. Why?

A cannon ball got shot through my belly. I can't prove it Mr. militaristic. If you can't find the original cannon ball that ripped through you and you claim a black-iron ball gave you a stomach ache, get out of our my White House Surgeon Generals pro-War office.

If you can prove you got mowed-down by a cannon ball that passed through you, THEN, prove it by bringing me the shredded black ball?

I cant find it and don't believe 'um meant to lie? Case dismissed because of more Lies. It don't make sense.

O, show me the black pudding bowl as proof we can or will have stewed shredded ball desert. I request sick leave for the rest of the day. Get, for you have ensnared me into partial insanity. If you continue to impede justice with the fluffy trite entailed, seemingly suspicions there are contradictions, I'm free to believe THIS is the most delusional black-soul gang THAT needs to be hauled on a train to tend a neo-Alamo.

okay. Sorry. No more nonsense or black goose cannon ball stories. Gads. If some one does not stop THIS, a world will be transformed into a black crispy black 8-ball in the universe? huh. Don't ask me. My belly-stomach aches. Prove it!

This class is beginning to make feel like a burnt peanut brain salesman vendor runs the White House. What? It makes NON-sense.

I'm out of here with the IMPRESSION I am famished for a UN-deleted peanut butter sandwich on burnt toast with a dill pickle and a side order of a one (special interest) big white marshmallow. apologies for what? I want a bumper sticker that declares:

MARSHMELLOW BRAINS!

RUN! Global Collapse.

No Stomach!

Delete this please?

Sorry I e-mailed, Publish my letter.

I have been watching the White House Press Briefing (on now) and so far anyway, this is the only topic that the press are asking about. One question after another about how this doesn't pass the "sniff test" and about email retention, possible violations of law, etc. Expect lots of stories on it today. Dana Perino is pretty good at keeping her composure, considering the bullshit she's having to peddle today. She says that no forensic-tech types have been assigned to it yet. Now would be a good time to send the FBI in to sieze all of the related computer equipment and backup media related to this. Maybe and indepenent investigator is also needed. Can we really trust our Department of Justice to investigate this now?

Not true, that all it takes is erasing a hard drive. Any large organization keeps generations of backups. Even erasing them isn't fool proof - without military style erasure it stays on.

They also usually have multiple redundant servers - so it has to be erased off of all of them. Usually, when you hit delete, it's just the link that's broken; but actual erasure can be done as a batch job at 3 in the morning.

Then you have at the other ends the same thing. It really is difficult to believe that the documents have been permanently erased.

There is no such thing as lost email. I once worked as a paralegal on an employment case. Trust me, every email that has ever been sent is out there somewhere. The claim that the emails are 'lost' is not credible.

Karl Rove suddenly remembered that he talked to Matt Cooper when Viveca Novak told Rove's lawyer that she and others (Fitzgerald) knew about this conversation. Despite previous searches and subpoenas for documents and emails specifically relating to Matt Cooper, Rove wasn't able to come up with the evidence until his lawyer figured out that Fitz had the goods on him (more here: http://www.slate.com/id/2132350/).

Wolfowitz caught in conflict of interest....

http://news.google.com/?ncl=1115102767&hl=en

They're all so deeply corrupt that they cheat on even the simple things, eh? Just can't help themselves.

It's not wrong if the leader does it! (The Fuhrer-Prinzip)

went through a major overhaul in December. Rules for EDD were scant, depending on case law for a lot of its guidelines (usually Zubulake).

Now a lot of it has been codified, and the penalties are quite severe for non-compliance. Any attorney requesting electronic discovery should start here:

http://www.lexisnexis.com/applieddiscovery/lawLibrary/modelOrders.asp

pick a model order and start typing.

None of this "oh, we deleted all that by mistake" crap holds water anymore.

... to your list of missing documents. As I recall, these were his Reagan-era notes and the Senate seemed quite interested in them in order to evaluate him has a potential Supreme Court Justice.

However, they vanished, which is curious because it happened:

1) After Bush nominated him for the Supreme Court

2) After Bush administration officials "looked" at them

3) Prior to his Senate confirmation, thus depriving the Senate of proper due dilligence

If this fits the Bush admin pattern of obstruction, can we get a do-over on the Roberts nomination?

"I suppose the defense for Bush followers who want to claim that all of this is completely innocent is "extreme ineptitude."

Ah yes the eternal lefty debate.... are the Bushies terminally stupid, or criminally and corruptly competent? Both and neither?

Actually this would be easier to be concerned about if the House weren't fighting the search of Jefferson's (D-La) office for the marked money he was hiding. You know, they are immune from scrutiny by the Executive Branch? Do they think they are the princes of the Potomac? Kings of the country? Regents of the republic? Apparently.

Thank Goodness this administration learned something from the last one. Heh.

This should be a political ad in 2008. I've always thought ads that wave the flag and yammer about America and hope this and tradition that were all a waste of air and effort. I want ads that present the facts, all nice and linked up like this article. Glenn's question at the end, "conspiracy or ineptitude?" would even be a great tagline. Come on, Move On, make the ad!

"Pay no attention to the man behind the cretin." Brilliant!!!