Comments on: WOW! Scott Horton on Sen. Helmet-hair

By: lotus

lotus — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:05:40 +0000

Mmm, cherchez la target letter: an excellent question, Mary, one that I hope some reporter soon borrows from you. Glad to have you back here, and thanks for your great CIA-tapes diary at Kos — go get ‘em! I would NOT want you on my trail, were I a miscreant.

If we do learn of a DoJ-to-Lott warning, it’ll be interesting to line its timing up against that of Gonzales’s immobilization and the clearing out of so many DoJ top-management types.

Seems to me, going after Trent Lott would have to mean enough career DoJ people finally got enough “loyal Bushies” out of their faces to go back to some legitimate chores. I’d be floored if any good close look at him took place while the Gonzales crowd was fully in control.

But by the time Balducci went to chat-up Judge Lackey, then well into the summer, they were suddenly over-occupied with testifying, trying to avoid testifying, losing emails, and organizing serial Friday afternoon resignations to-spend-more-time-with-my-family . . .

Still, no doubt enough GOP-first loyalists remained squirrelled away in DoJ to have given Ol’ Trent a timely whisper. As your diary (and so much else) proves, however, the mopes ain’t all THAT competent at tracks-covering, so it’s possible we’ll see the whole pattern yet.

I’d sure like that.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:55:58 +0000

Has anyone been asking Lott about whether or not he’s received a target letter? It is interesting to think of who he might have picked up the phone and called at DOJ, but if Lott was tipped off by someone at DOJ about the upcoming events, you have to believe that they would have covered tracks very carefully, so I wonder if we will ever know?

Horton and you are burning this one up Lotus.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:10:39 +0000

This is the Bush DoJ after all, NMC. They serve and protect their own, not us.

By: n miss commenter

n miss commenter — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:06:52 +0000

I meant broke silence on the prosecution (that is, Justice Dept) side. Scruggs had no way of knowing what was coming on Monday. If Horton is right, someone had to have talked out of school to give Lott a heads up.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:36:05 +0000

As to who broke silence, well, we ARE talking about two guys married to sisters, ain’t we?

Cherchez les soeurs?

By: n miss commenter

n miss commenter — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:30 +0000

I think LD has a point. There are just too many missing pieces from Horton’s very interesting, very suggestive post. I’d love a little more background on this sources.

If this guess is right, it raises another question: who broke silence and warned Lott? That could itself produce some serious repurcussions.

I’m just going to say “hmmmm” for now about this. I’m not convinced but I’m not unconvinced.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:13:41 +0000

My guess, LD, is that they picked him up on one or two Dickie wires first, then there was a bit of USA-DoJ co-ordination (IF we’re talking post Gonzo’s resignation).

By: . . . and your little dog, too

. . . and your little dog, too — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:51:31 +0000

Would Lott have picked up the bugged phone at Dickie’s house or office, or is the suggestion that they started bugging Lott’s phone, too?

Or would the FBI have asked the local and nearby USA’s whether Lott contacted them?

I can’t see from here how they could have overheard Lott on the phone.

Anybody?