{"id":1169,"date":"2007-04-21T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/21\/springs-back\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T21:38:38","slug":"springs-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/21\/springs-back\/","title":{"rendered":"spring’s back…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and the pollen here is ferocious, so I’m spending the weekend hiding inside. I was passing the time re-reading the email dumps from the DOJ, and I keep running across things I missed the first time around. I’ve only recently caught up with who Michael Elston is [Paul McNulty’s Chief of Staff]. He’s the one that threatened the Attorneys that bad performance claims would be released if they went public. He’s the one that the DOJ Employees accused of purging the honor program of possible liberals. I think he’s "on leave" now. Here’s an email<\/strong><\/a> from Margaret Chiara to Paul McNulty:<\/p>\n

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Why were they waiting until after the elections?<\/strong> It doesn’t make sense to me, unless it was a macro version of the "Friday" thing. They release contraversial things on Fridays so they’ll wear out by Monday. Maybe they picked December because it was leading into to holidays, or there were lots of new people. Maybe they thought it wouldn’t show. Did they think it might adversely impact the elections?<\/p>\n

But it still seems odd to me to wait until after<\/u>, rather than before<\/u>, the elections. The White House okay didn’t come until after the elections either [December 4th]. Did I miss something? It’s curious to me. I’ve come to accept that everything they do has a reason…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… and the pollen here is ferocious, so I’m spending the weekend hiding inside. I was passing the time re-reading the email dumps from the DOJ, and I keep running across things I missed the first time around. I’ve only recently caught up with who Michael Elston is [Paul McNulty’s Chief of Staff]. He’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}