…and discover that most of my adult life was all a dream and it’s still 1974…

Shades of Rose Mary Woods? An 18 day gap?

I think a commenter in our document dump research thread may have been the first to notice that the emails released by the Justice Department seem to have a gap between November 15th and December 4th of last year.

(Our commenter saw it late on the evening of the dump itself — see the comment date-stamped March 20, 2007 02:19 AM in the research thread)

The firing calls went out on December 7th. But the original plan was to start placing the calls on November 15th. So those eighteen days are pretty key ones.

Mike Allen spotted it this evening in the Politico.

— Josh Marshall

Let me guess…they were answering the phone and working the shredder at the same time and the documents accidentally got sucked in. 

Talking Points Memo, has pretty much been the go-to place to learn about the Justice Department Attorney firing scandal…