A new White House tradition: The Friday night Solyndra document dump
At least five times since last fall’s bankruptcy filing and FBI raid of the California solar company, the White House and other agencies have chosen to release embarrassing emails and other materials late in the afternoon as the workweek ends — a time almost guaranteed to garner the least media attention possible…
In the past year, the Justice Department has sent up Fast and Furious documents on Friday afternoons at least twice and the White House Counsel’s office has done so at least once. Reporters often get the records at about the same time.
The practice has irked some lawmakers.
“You dump them on us on Friday night so that the staff here can’t do anything with them unless they stay over the weekend and work 10, 12, 14 hours. I’ve been down that road, too,” former House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton (R-Ind.) said during a hearing last week with Attorney General Eric Holder. (Burton led the committee during its tussles with the Clinton administration in the 1990s.)
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so, schedule the hearings for the WH crooks at Friday 5-7pm…..then Saturday am too. Two can play that game can’t they??
ted c on February 7, 2012 at 4:23 PM
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Oh, and they hate money in politics (unless it’s their money in politics).
Good Lt on February 7, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Frankly I don’t know why bho and team does this, the bhopress won’t report on these issues if they come out on Monday or Friday!
The bhopress just loves the daylights outta bho, thrill thing!
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letget on February 7, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Friday is actually multiple scandal drop day. I think Obama hopes to defuse everything by carpet bombing scandals to overrun the news.
William Amos on February 7, 2012 at 4:29 PM
rogerb on February 7, 2012 at 4:32 PM
I guess they’re worried that Drudge, talk radio, the blogosphere, and FoxNews will run with it if they released the stuff during the week. There is the alternative media to contend with and they’d rather make it as difficult on them as possible.
Doughboy on February 7, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Please, there is nothing to see here….this administration
could be dumping BODIES Friday nights on the grounds of
the White House and it would not get news coverage…
ToddPA on February 7, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Which is followed by the saturday morning dump while reading the news on an iPad.
WashJeff on February 7, 2012 at 5:09 PM
At this point we expect them to dump unflattering e-mails on Friday afternoons – extra bad stuff on long weekends.
They should start mixing it up a bit.
Try Wednesday around coffee time.
turfmann on February 7, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Seriously. It’s not just Solyndra, Fast and Furious doc dumps also seem to come on Fridays.
batter on February 7, 2012 at 5:21 PM
They would if they could but it’s hard to do when you just want everything nice. Boehner cries at the Gerald Ford statue. I’m about to cry just thinking of how much ammo the repubs have but won’t use it. Never mind, maybe they are just keeping their powder dry for when it’s “really” needed. That’s what I hear on the Mitt threads.
arnold ziffel on February 7, 2012 at 5:36 PM
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Oh, and they hate money in politics (unless it’s their money in politics).Good Lt on February 7, 2012 at 4:27 PM
astonerii on February 7, 2012 at 6:09 PM