White House scandal?Remember the famous eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap in the Nixon tape--the one Rose Mary Woods Rose Mary Woods (December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary. When Nixon, then a young California Senator, needed a secretary, he had an agency send one over; it was Woods. desperately tried to explain by stretching backwards until she almost fell over? I suspect the new scandal is going to be the 11-hour gap between the time the Justice Department notified the White House counsel that it was investigating the Wilson-Plame leak (programming) leak - With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. and the time the counsel instructed other White House officials not to destroy relevant records. Actually, it could be called the 48-hour gap, since that was the time elapsed e·lapse intr.v. e·lapsed, e·laps·ing, e·laps·es To slip by; pass: Weeks elapsed before we could start renovating. n. between the time the Postbroke the story and the time the counsel acted. But the only difference I can see is that if it was 48, the line at the shredding shred n. 1. A long irregular strip that is cut or torn off. 2. A small amount; a particle: not a shred of evidence. tr.v. machine would've been shorter. |
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