This exchange shows Bloch to be a fighter:
“When [Rep. Tom] Davis (R-VA) continued to press the issue, Bloch said, “If you want to exchange personal attacks, maybe we should go outside.””
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/103218-1.html

Bloch back-tracked immediately after this statement, but imagine how he talks to underlings who disagree with him.

The interesting fact for me was that we actually have people in the Federal Government who know how to shut down and isolate an entire email system! And these people are in the FBI of all agencies!

Meanwhile the White House can’t figure out how to run an email system.

It’s been in my head that for the most part the various federal agency inspectors general [inspector generals? I’d defer to Danny Kaye if he were still around.] from the Clinton administration were replaced during the time when the Bush43 transition team was doing its worst, and that those like Glenn Fine were sort of like atavisms left in place as this most distractable administration turned its attention to how to move the WOT from the resourceless desert of Afghanistan to oily riches of Iraq. And all the Bushie busy Buzzies though ass-clowns proved their respective loyalty by falling on their swords or more commonly being hoist on their own petards [ouch].

Except in the case of Bloch he failed to do the former & seemed oblivious to the latter. That must have presented an awfully disturbing sight to those seated next to the shredders & man-sized safes inside the OVP in particular.

J Thomason way up top in this thread styled this as ”Rovian”. IMO its far more likely a Cheney letter.

Could it be that members of the Task Force somehow got the FBI to intervene to seize all records/computers before any more disappeared? It appears they had collected ‘thousands’. That would fit bmaz’s ‘Fitzgerald’ option.

bmaz, you mention Fitz as a possible avenue. See, I think Bush-Cheney-Rove know that Bloch has had them by the —– if he were to not to be loyal. The Bloch info on Rove tipped that questionable loyalty hand to a degree. Fitz, learning some interesting information from the Renzko case -like the politicizing of the USAG’s and the attempt to obstruct justice through firing AG’s, gave Fitz some vital information. By law, if Fitz found out that there was an attempt to obstruct justice during the Plame investigation/Libby Trial, he would be obligated to follow that up – wouldn’t he?

Now couldn’t this play for the Dems too? Like someone putting the bug in Davis’ ear to get upset about the Dems dragging their feet on Bloch and the Dems suddenly respond? (I’m trying to get to the, “Why now?” on Davis pushing this — and yes, it could come from the White House. I’m just exploring possibilities. I’m willing to put my money on Fitz to play this game of chess quite well.)

Bloch has released statements from his office that he is fully cooperating.

I think this could mean White House or Fitz. I’m hoping Fitz.

I’ve been trying to find out about the status on the second Grand Jury from the Plame investigation. It was a Special Grand Jury wasn’t it? They run for 18 months and then can be extended by three 6 month periods for an additional 18 months is that correct? Didn’t Fitz state he was going to keep the door open? IANAL so, let me know how crazy this scenario is.

I am just noticing the timing of this irt the Renzko trial:

In the midst of a corruption trial that has provided plenty of fodder for political cynics, prosecutors alleged that political insiders in Washington and Illinois claimed to be working to choke off a criminal investigation launched by U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald.

At the trial of Antoin “Tony” Rezko, prosecutors revealed Wednesday that former Rezko confidant Ali Ata was prepared to testify that Rezko told him in November 2004 of a plan to pull strings with then- White House political director Karl Rove and have Fitzgerald fired.

Prosecutors also sought to add the testimony of another admitted schemer suggesting that two of the state’s most powerful Republican operatives wanted to take the heat off Rezko by dumping the hard-charging prosecutor.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/…..2070.story

It’s crazy, I know, but the timing is interesting.

Then there is this:

“The e-mails were essential in determining whether Mr. Bloch had used his computer for inappropriate purposes,” Davis wrote in a letter Tuesday to House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

Tuesday’s raids were done in connection to a criminal investigation of whether Bloch obstructed justice and, potentially, lied to Congress, according to the law enforcement officials.

After watching Bill Moyers this past Feb:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/jour…..atch2.html

BILL MOYERS: We turn now from the rhetoric of the race to the reality of governance. Congress has begun a new round of hearings to get answers to questions the Bush administration refused to answer last year — questions about accountability. The heart of the matter is how do we know what the people in power are doing with the public’s trust and the taxpayer’s money if we are kept in the dark? Here’s the first of reports we’ll be bringing you over the coming months on some of the key hearings on Capitol Hill.

You are looking at some of the least known but most powerful people in Congress. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the main investigative body in the House of Representatives, it’s charged with making sure the government is doing its job and holding the executive accountable. That means searching for waste fraud and abuse of power in any federal program. Henry Waxman, who has been in congress 33 years, has been ranking member of the committee since 1997.

The show focused on Doan and Rice.

Then this Waxman – Davis exchange upon Doan’s resignation”

Update – Waxman issued this statement in reaction to Doan’s resignation: “I know this decision was difficult for the White House and Lurita Doan, but it was the right thing to do. GSA should now be able to return to its nonpartisan tradition and its work as our government’s premier contracting agency.”

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), ranking member on Oversight and Government Reform, offered praise for Doan’s tenure at GSA, although he noted that Doan’s “management style was not everyone’s cup of tea,” and admitted that Doan suffered from “personality conflicts” at the agency.

Davis also criticized Special Counsel Scott Bloch, who found last year that Doan had violated the Hatch Act and urged President Bush to remove her from office. That law prohibits federal employees for using their offices for political activities.

“It would be a shame if this decision had anything to do with the hyperbolic and unfounded allegations of Scott Bloch and others who were after her just to claim another administration scalp,” Davis said in a statement released by his office. “There’s no doubt personality conflicts played a role. Certainly, her management style was not everyone’s cup of tea.

Davis added:“But the administrator appears to have fallen victim to a bureaucratic culture that fears, rather than rewards, entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and bold leadership.

Lurita Doan’s legacy at GSA should be viewed as a positive one, and her attempts to bring private sector best practices to the agency should be applauded.”

and this posted today:

http://www.ombwatch.org/articl…..ry/4961/49

And the spin begins here with interesting twists regarding the raid:

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0508/050708e1.htm

People involved in the case said the possibility of perjury was most likely the reason prosecutors sought material related to the Doan investigation. Katz, in an April 29 letter, accused Bloch of lying about the transfer of agency employees in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Management Subcommittee hearing on May 24, 2005.

The request for Rice documents is likely aimed at evaluating whistleblower charges that Bloch improperly bypassed career investigators during the probe, people familiar with the case said. Bloch’s lawyer, Roscoe Howard of Troutman Sanders LLP, did not return calls for comment.

and this:

The FBI on Tuesday executed search warrants on OSC headquarters and the Dallas field office, as well as Bloch’s home. The agents collected documents and laptop computers and issued 17 subpoenas in an operation lasting more than seven hours. Debra Katz, who is representing OSC employees who have filed complaints against Bloch alleging whistleblower retaliation, said five or six current employees and numerous former employees were issued subpoenas to appear before a grand jury next week.

“OSC employees were told before the search warrants were executed yesterday that the special counsel was the target of the probe, not the people in the office,” Katz said.

The investigation into Bloch appears to be focused not only on potential obstruction of justice charges against him, but also on the possibility he lied to Congress last year and manipulated OSC investigations, according to sources.

(my bold)

OSC employees are stating that the raid took far more information than would be needed for the scope of the investigation they were told was underway.

Okay, I get it now. No good guys to be found backing this raid.

Well, I’m still hanging around this thread, puzzled.
Also, I’m a complete sucker for LabDancer’s humor ;-))

With billions/year in gov’t contracts, could GSA be the tunnel into a new phase of the whole Duke Cunningham/gov’t contracts mess? Has Abramoff been spilling one too many beans…?

(All the more reason for Bush, Cheney, Rove, AIPAC, and corrupt members of Congress to secure hard drives and documents for storage in their man-sized safes, and underscores the point that paranoid people may feel Bloch isn’t covering their asses well enough?)

If the POGO document is bogus, the white hats have a steeper slope. But if it’s legit, then it underscores JThompson’s point that the media silence is eerie.

I’m still with marksb and JohnJ; the subtle movements in the dark are quite possibly shark fins.