Only the porn emails survive...

Josh Marshall continues to drive this story. The collective investigators at TPM have uncovered the latest damning evidence against the White House in the attorney purge scandal.

Nixon had his 18 minute gap. Bush has his 18 day gap in the emails produced by his Justice Department. That about sums up the over the top hubris of this president. He truly believes he is above the law. Interesting the only emails that survived concerned the embarrassing porn case we mentioned last week.

The Salt Lake Tribune picks up on those and spins it to the White House's favor, but only tellhalf the story. It's not that these two weren't willing to prosecute cases. The cases were dogs and appeared to be nearly unwinnable.

Think Progress ponders on why only those emails were released.

In other words, it makes sense that the administration would include this set of emails and apparently virtually nothing else from that 18-day-gap, since the emails from Ward bolster the administration’s case that the firings were based on performance-related concerns.

Except that they don't. Not that the White House won't spin it that way but I really would hate to see them get away with it.