McCain camp: All the bad press we got for the Baghdad Stroll is good for us.
Kyle Sampson back up to the Hill tomorrow for “voluntary follow-up interview.”
Interesting. More details coming from this morning’s gaggle on how those RNC-White House emails just happened to get deleted.
Senate Judiciary Committee authorizes subpoenas for Justice Department documents, White House emails, White House officials….
Check out Dan Froomkin’s new piece just up on the Post website in which he shows how clear it must have been to the White House officials in question that they were violating the White House’s own stated policies in this whole RNC email situation.
Leahy on the White House story about the RNC emails: They’re Lying!
This morning’s press gaggle with White House spokesman Scott Stanzel was a fun one.
A quote:
…what you’re talking about is the user’s ability, if they are sitting at their laptop, and decide that, ‘gosh, I’ve got a hundred emails here that I just — are cluttering up my inbox, I want to put them in the deleted file, and I right-click the deleted items to empty my deleted file.’ It’s possible, possible, that those records could have been lost….
Check out the Republican National Committee’s entire case against Nancy Pelosi — all in one tidy memo.
He’s so good he plays both sides of the argument. Jon Cohn makes the case against single-payer.
And if you’re just tuning in to this week’s Book Club, a summary of what you’ve missed.
From TPM Reader DS …
You should post a shout-out to anyone who has ever been investigated by the federal government who claimed to have deleted some relevant e-mails. What did the Justice Department, IRS, or SEC do in response? Particularly relevant would be industries that have mandatory document retention policies, such as the financial sector. The tales would be rather amusing at this point, I imagine.