document dump (a/k/a DoJ love potion!) number nine. . .

or, why the hertling cover letter tells all. . .
[simply irresistible, this hertling fellah is!]

i will have much more on the actual e-mails
and spreadsheets in dump no. nine tomorrow,
but tonight -- tonight! -- the richard hertling
cover letter deserves a spot-light of its own:

note that the letter (or, my copy of it,
anyway!) grows b r o w n e r as
one reads more, and more of it. . . and that
is no accident. in the penultimate paragraph,
mr. hertling -- an attorney -- indicates
that at least some of the documents de-
livered tonight to the house judiciary
committee (pursuant to a subpoena for
"ALL documents. . .") are now
deemed "appropriate" for disclosure.

"deemed" by whom? -- erh, mr. hertling,
it is a subpoena! -- attorneys do not get to
decide whether, or when, a subpoena response
of full-disclosure is "appropriate". the subpoena
is an order to completely disclose, immediately.

and, it is "beyond his pay-grade" (inappropriate)
to make any suggestion to the contrary.

okay -- now the document
[as ever, click to view]:



this really is a piece of work.
and, a pungent one, at that.
the whole of dump nine seems
to be plainly-designed to
paint -- probably accurately -- ms.
monica goodling as a serial
liar, opportunist and law-breaker. . .

the problem is -- she seems to
have copied just about everyone, and. . .
until the jig was up, and congress
was investigating. . .

no.one.lifted.a.finger.to.stop.her.

not bush -- not cheney -- not rove -- not
gonzales -- not miers -- not mcnulty -- and
not hertling, or sampson, or taylor, or
ralston. . . no one.

it would clearly seem that
at least some -- and perhaps,
most -- approved of her methods,
and cheered her would-be outcomes. . .

until caught at it, that is.

on the other hand, i guess the silver-
lining here is that hertling is no longer
straight-up flipping senator patrick leahy
the bird on all documents. . .

at least not competely, anyway. . .

more tomorrow.