The 18 day gap in the US attorney emails and no emails from Gonzo

18 days of emails from just after the 2006 election loss, November 15th to December 4th, appear to be missing from the document dump. I saw it first at Politico, but the key paragraph is excerpted here.

What's the White House answer to this? We forgot a box?

If you're wanting to put down the smell of coverup by an "unprecedented" document release, leaving out the key period is not the way to do it. (Dodging the question doesn't help either.)

Also: Not much has been written on the fact that Alberto Gonzales didn't use email. The reasons unexplored, I would guess that like several other Bush officials, Gonzales chose not to use email to avoid a paper trail like the one were seeing now.

BUT, unlike Cheney, or Rumsfeld, or even Bush himself, (all email avoiders,) Gonzales is the AG. I could understand if as President's counsel, he feared leaving emails, but as AG his job is definitionally to uphold the laws of the land. He should have nothing to hide in his official business, and yet he still refused to use email.

And, in that same Politico piece, Mike Allen reiterates that the Bush admin is lining up Gonzales replacements. His story is that the "search process" has gone into lockdown, but all the inquiries have already been made and they're just waiting for answers.