The 12 Hour Advance Notice to Allow White House to Hide Info on PlameGate was Actually Three Whole Days

The Carpetbagger Report, in discussing the Frank Rich piece I cited yesterday, gives you all the details, including this:

The Bush gang didn't have 12 hours to cover their tracks — they had a whole weekend.

It's also important to note that Rich's discussion of the 12-hour gap, while important, isn't new. Senate Dems tried to raise hell about this two years ago, but no one — in Congress, the administration, or in the media — listened.

I appreciate Patrick Fitzgerald's reputation and believe him to be a credible prosecutor, who appears to have run a fair and thorough investigation. That's not the problem here. The question is whether Fitzgerald's probe has had access to all the information it should have received.

As Sens. Daschle, Biden, Levin, and Schumer said in October 2003, "We are at risk of seeing this investigation so compromised that those responsible for this national security breach will never be identified and prosecuted."

A scary prospect, indeed.