I haven’t said much (anything) about the current scandal over the outed CIA operative, but this blew my mind. From an NPR interview between Robert Seigel and Nina Totenberg, as quoted by Atrios:
The White house asked for and got permission earlier this week to wait a day before issuing a directive to preserve all documents and logs which led one seasoned federal prosecutor to wonder why they wanted to wait a day, and who at the justice department told them they could do that, and why?
Why, indeed? Why in the world — in any potential scandal, especially one of this magnitude — would the guilty parties be given 24-hour notice so that they could clean out their e-mail inboxes, fire up the shredders, or do whatever else might need to be done to cover their tracks?
This reminds me so much of Watergate, except GWB is not nearly as bright as RMN. Karl Rove, however, is.