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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:27 PM
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DoJ officials never told to preserve documents related to dismissals
Excuse me, do any of these clowns possess ANY common sense?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/14/doj-officials-never-told-to-preserve-documents/

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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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:29 PM
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1. I would think that preserving documents related to a dismissal
would be common procedure.

Good grief, every business preserves documents about almost everything for at least some period of time!

This is just too screwed up.

I think they're making excuses to cover their cover up where docs were destroyed.
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:30 PM
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2. Oh please! There are gov't regs for everything. You have to keep everything practically. They
shouldn't have to tell anyone to keep those kinds of records, that should be standard procedure.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:37 PM
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3. They're lawyers
They know you have to preserve documents responsive to a subpoena, even if not specifically instructed to do so by superiors. They should be disbarred if that is their defense to the destruction of evidence.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:43 PM
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4. It's an entire department of ATTPRNEYS, and they had to be told
by somebody else to preserve docs? Just WHO in the hell do they think was supposed to tell THEM?
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:51 PM
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5. If you do not have documentation to back up decisions
then you acted without authority and are liable for the consequences.

No documents, no authority to act.

It cuts both ways.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:51 PM
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6. Hey, you idiots, you ARE the DOJ! Why would Justice have to tell Justice?
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 05:31 PM
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9. Because Justice isn't justice.
That's found over in Judicial.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 04:56 PM
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7. They long ago forgot they work for the people.
With this sort of Lenin style govt. with a 'commissar' in every agency things are done in the Bush way.
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hwmnbn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 05:03 PM
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8. Like a lying teenager......
what punk-asses!
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 08:12 AM
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10. They are the DoJ. "I did not tell myself to obey the law, Officer."
Let's try that again.

And, did Gonzales say, "The President did not say WE have to obey the laws too." ??

:rofl: at this one. Is someone conducting a social engineering project to see how stupid we are?
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 01:57 PM
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11. K&R, X-Post: COHEN: Alberto Throws Paul Under Bus; Ditto James to Alberto
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 07:46 PM
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12. K&R
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