In 1972, lawyers requested former President Nixon’s tape recordings of his conversations in the White House. This was in relation to the break-in of the Democratic Party’s offices in the Watergate building. Upon receiving those tapes, there was found to be a mysterious 18.5-minute gap - a patch of buzzes and clicks of missing audio - in the middle of a recording made June 20, 1972, three days after the break-in.
In March of 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives received the phone transcripts of ex-President Trump. The House panel identified a more than seven-hour gap in the official White House records. No recordings of that time period are known to exist.
On Feb. 8, 2022, an attorney requested the recording of a January 18 executive (secret) session of the Montezuma-Cortez RE1 School Board. The district responded that the meeting was inadvertently (illegally) not recorded. The attorney for the district said that he didn’t know how the recording was lost.
18.5 minutes, 7.5 hours, an entire meeting, lost.
“Law and Order”?
Jim Skvorc
Cortez
