The New York Times published a scandalously misleading article today under the headline "Democrats See a 'Document Gap' in Dismissals." The article reports correctly that an 18 day gap exists in the most recently released set of documents. The headline, however, as well as the opening paragraph are devoted to insinuating that the Democrats have cooked up "a long and ever-growing list of theories...about ulterior motives and suspicious coincidences." and that the gap is nothing more than the latest conspiracy theory. In fact the gap is a concrete reality and you do not have to be a Democrat to observe it as such.
The NY Times reporters continue in their obfuscation as they selectively quote from the released documents:
One of the last e-mail messages before this period was sent by D. Kyle Sampson, then chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, to Harriet E. Miers, then the White House counsel, and includes a request that the White House approve the plan. “We’ll stand by for a green light from you,” said the Nov. 15 e-mail message.A little more than a half-hour later, Ms. Miers replied: “Not sure whether this will be determined to require the boss’s attention. If it does, he just left last night so would not be able to accomplish that for some time.”
It is not known whether Ms. Miers was referring to Mr. Bush.
As White House Counsel at the time to whom else could Ms. Miers have been referring? To that end the final email before the gap was a return message from then Attorney General Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson which read:
Who will determine whether [whether] this will require the President's attention?
Mr. Sampson's response to Ms. Miers makes it quite obvious that she was also referring to the President.
The NY Times chose to withhold this crucial piece of information and in doing so effectively obscured the truth from its readers, much as the Bush Administration is obscuring the truth from the American people by withholding documents from that 18 day period.
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