Will Email-gate eclipse Imus-gate in the mainstream news?

Thom Hartmann just asked Ellen Ratner, White House Correspondent and Bureau Chief for The Talk Radio News, and she responded - "it's up to the individual editors but all they are talking/asking about in the White House Press Corps are the Emails that have been "lost".....

I've noticed a lot less threads about that other subject today. Or I'm just hiding them quicker.

Maybe MSNBC will get tired of talking about it long enough to report real news.

Hope I'm wrong...maybe Imus has run its course

live!

Not only is Imus getting more attention now that he has in the past 20 years, but it is cluttering out actual and important news stories....

White House, FAA, DOJ, DOE (think nukes), Air Force, and just about anywhere else in government.

"Ptech is used primarily to develop enterprise blueprints at the highest level of US government and corporate infrastructure. These blueprints hold every important functional, operational, and technical detail of the enterprise. A secondary use of this powerful tool is to build other smart tools in a short period of time. Ptech’s clients in 2001 included the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, Customs, Air Force, the White House, the FAA, IBM, Sysco, Aetna, and Motorola, to name just a few. "

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17730

and the connection to Attorney-gate is this,

"It's all part of a growing ongoing investigation into corruption in defense and intelligence contracts, which already has sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison and, legal sources say, may threaten others in Congress and the CIA. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

So, in order for the CIA and GOP to cover their tracks in this basically money-driven scandal, they've gone back to software used by a foreign source, Saudi Arabia, who possibly offshores information (as far as the general public and Congress knows).

When will the M$M start asking questions instead of just reporting on what Congress's latest subpoena is ? Somebody ought to follow up on the Lisa Myers scoop.

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18½ minute gap Tape
Nixon appointed another prosecutor, Leon Jaworski. The White House then agreed to comply with the subpoena and gave some of the subpoenaed conversations to Sirica. The White House informed the Court that two subpoenaed conversations had not been recorded, and that an 18½ minute gap existed on a third tape.


Rose Mary Woods

Rose Mary Woods demonstrating how she may have erased tape recordingsOn November 8, 1973, Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, testified

The buttons said on and off, forward and backward. I caught on to that fairly fast. I don't think I'm so stupid as to erase what's on a tape.<1>

Later that month she testified she had made "a terrible mistake" during transcription. On October 1, 1973 while playing the tape on the Uher 5000, she answered a phone call. Reaching for the Uher 5000 stop button, she testifies she mistakingly hit the button next to it — the record button. For the duration of the phone call, about five minutes, she kept her foot on the device's pedal, causing a five-minute portion of the tape to be re-recorded. She insisted she was not responsible for the remaining 13 minutes of buzz.

Woods was asked to replicate the position she took to cause that accident: seated at a desk, reaching far back over her left shoulder for a telephone as her foot applies constant pressure to the pedal controlling the transcription machine. Her extremely awkward posture during the demonstration resulted in many political commentators questioning the validity of the explanation. <2>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_tapes



Also, some possibility that the missing gap may be recoverable
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Watergate '18-Minute Gap' May be Recovered

1972 recordings led to resignation of President Nixon
Dateline: 06/17/02

Thirty years after the Watergate scandal brought down a presidency, America may soon know what was said during the famous "18 1/2-Minute Gap" in the Nixon-Watergate audio tapes if the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) succeeds in its restoration efforts.

On August 8, 2001, NARA published this "Request for Information" in the Commerce Business Daily requesting proposals from contractors to participate in a project attempting to recover erased audio material from the 18.5 minute segment of the original "Nixon White House tape" number 342.

On tape 342, President Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman are meeting in the old Executive Office Building on June 20, 1972, just three days after the Watergate break-in. As the two men talk, their conversation is suddenly replaced by 18.5 minutes of silence broken only by electronic-sounding clicks and hisses.
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http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa081301a.htm