Here’s an update on the U.S. Justice Department, per the Washington Post:
– The department is conducting an internal investigation into whether former White House liaison Monica Goodling illegally took party affiliation into account in hiring career federal prosecutors for nonpolitical appointments.
– Two of the fired U.S. attorneys said they were threatened by Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty’s chief of staff and told to not talk publicly about the firings.
– The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena seeking all the e-mails of presidential adviser Karl Rove in Justice Department custody related to the firings.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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What on earth does the President have on Gonzales that looks so bad that he would willingly go before a congressional committee and pretend to be an absolutely incompetent idiot on the evening news for weeks at a time rather than have it revealed? The imagination boggles!
Yep, they’ll scapegoat goodling.
Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind …
This is getting to be fun.
This is what Chomsky has been saying for years.
When gov’t harasses, torments, or even kills poor or powerless Americans (the Black Panthers, say), nothing happens.
But let a couple of federal judges get harassed or fired, and hoo baby, does the sh*t hit the fan!
That’s why Nixon was impeached. Not because he broke into someone’s office . . . that was the least of his crimes.
But because he broke into the office of someone with political power.
Same with Bush. This is the least of their outrages. But it’s having the greatest repercussions because judges don’t like getting f***ed over and know what to do about it.
Capn, they weren’t judges; they were U.S. Attorneys. Otherwise, what you said at 10:20 is true.
Well, here’s an interesting little tidbit on the USA firing scandal.
The U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer
By ADAM COHENPublished: May 4, 2007There is yet another United States attorney whose abrupt departure from office is raising questions: Debra Wong Yang of Los Angeles. Ms. Yang was not fired, as eight other prosecutors were, but she resigned under circumstances that raise serious questions, starting with whether she was pushed out to disrupt her investigation of one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress.
-snip
Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Ms. Lam and most of the other purged prosecutors were fired on Dec. 7. Ms. Yang, in a fortuitously timed exit, resigned in mid-October.
Ms. Yang says she left for personal reasons, but there is growing evidence that the White House was intent on removing her.
Kyle Sampson, the Justice Department staff member in charge of the firings, told investigators last month in still-secret testimony that Harriet Miers, the White House counsel at the time, had asked him more than once about Ms. Yang. He testified, according to Congressional sources, that as late as mid-September, Ms. Miers wanted to know whether Ms. Yang could be made to resign.
Mr. Sampson reportedly recalled that Ms. Miers was focused on just two United States attorneys: Ms. Yang and Bud Cummins, the Arkansas prosecutor who was later fired to make room for Tim Griffin, a Republican political operative and Karl Rove protégé.
-snip
The new job that Ms. Yang landed raised more red flags. Press reports say she got a $1.5 million signing bonus to become a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a firm with strong Republican ties.
She was hired to be co-leader of the Crisis Management Practice Group with Theodore Olson, who was President Bush’s solicitor general and his Supreme Court lawyer in Bush v. Gore.
Gibson, Dunn was defending Mr. Lewis in Ms. Yang’s investigation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/opinion/04fri4.html?e...
And this proves what ksfarmgrrl? Politics is a dirty game? Everybody knows that now.
But George W. Bush promised to bring honesty and integrity back to the White House – how is what his own handpicked people (Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzalez) doing making honesty and integrity their primary goal?
Everything about this scandal smells fishy. And GWB does not have the backing of the majority of Americans anymore. He has told one too many suspected lies and now very few people take him at his word. You cannot blame the majority of the Americans for questioning Bush, he brought this on himself.
“What on earth does the President have on Gonzales”
Goat….. Polaroid….. bottle of wine…..
Hee hee hee Clark. I was thinking about the joke concerning a sheep, a midget and a trampoline….
Cap’n,”That’s why Nixon was impeached. Not because he broke into someone’s office . . . that was the least of his crimes.
But because he broke into the office of someone with political power.”
Actually, quite true. He had already been caught blackbagging Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office when Watergate went down.