ABC: DOJ released 283 more docs largely recovered from a Justice official who had been on vacation

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/03/internal_justic.html

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In addition, the department released 283 more pages of documents largely recovered from a Justice official who had been on vacation when the paper hunt began last week. The most interesting document points to a Nov. 27 meeting involving Attorney General Gonzales and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty--other senior justice officials and Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' former chief of staff. This so far is the only documented meeting where it is known that the AG discused the termination plan, which resulted in seven U.S. attorneys being fired on Dec. 7th. Gonzales has maintained he was not involved in developing the list ---but did approve it.

:crazy:

Um, aren't all messages stored on the email server?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. I don't get it - did he have the documents on his home computer?

Why would an official's absence result in the ability to produce documents? I assume he would have staff who know where everything is.

[GregD]

2. actually, no

and that is the problem with all those messages on gwb41.com... Supposed to all be on government servers, but spread out all over the damn place...

[opihimoimoi]

3. WTF??? Something awfully smelly here....