Henry’s Dates: Medicare Part D
One of the reasons it was so unwise for Tony Fratto to open his big fat mouth today regarding the White House habit of losing emails is because it offered Waxman an excuse to make previously unreleased information publicly available–an excuse Waxman was not about to turn down. Waxman released a chunk of dates for which offices in the White House have no archived email (note, this list does not appear to include all of the dates for which there is no email, nor does it include dates for which the email volume is smaller than it should be).
For the White House Office: December 17, 2003, December 20, 2003, December 21, 2003, January 9, 2004, January 10, 2004, January 11, 2004, January 29, 2004, February 1, 2004, February 2, 2004, February 3, 2004, February 7, 2004, and February 8, 2004.
For the Office of the Vice President: September 12, 2003, October 1, 2003, October 2, 2003, October 3, 2003, October 5, 2003, January 29, 2004, January 30, 2004, January 31, 2004, February 7, 2004, February 8, 2004, February 15, 2005, February 16, 2005, February 17, 2005, May 21, 2005, May 22, 2005, May 23, 2005.
For the Council on Environmental Quality: 81 days, including the entire period between November 1, 2003 through January 11, 2004.
For the Council of Economic Advisers: 103 days, including the entire period between November 2, 2003 through January 11, 2004.
For the Office of Management and Budget: 59 days, including the entire period between November 1, 2003 through December 9, 2003.
For the U.S. Trade Representative: 73 days, including the entire period between February 11, 2004 through April 18, 2004.
And as a good weedy blogger, I thought this a wonderful opportunity to try to figure out any significance for the dates.
I’m going to go back and look out how the dates for the WH and OVP correlate with the Plame investigation. But for now, I’d like to raise one red flag regarding the dates as it pertains to the missing email: All the emails from OMB for the period covering the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the passage of Medicare Part D are gone. Read more →