Meanwhile, Sampson says Gonzalez and Miers were involved in the firings.
Interesting article from WaPo:
It isn’t like there are THAT many moving parts to this story, at least that we know about so far. If the truth sufficed as a publicly palatable explanation, it’s hard to see how more than a few hours’ prep would be necessary.
And this bit of comedy gold from Sen Orrin Kvetch, in re Carol Lam…
Not true, of course. Not a word.
(With thanks to Talking Point Memo, without which no citizen can hope to be well informed…)
Of course, the story keeps getting bigger. The LA Times reported last week on allegations of politicization of the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ:
Of course, the companion of politicization is hackification, since people who are willing to make decisions based on the politics rather than the facts are usually people who don’t care that much about the facts to begin with. So a paragraph in this story about the cover-up of abuses in Texas juvenile facilities caught my eye (bolding mine):
I’m not alleging any political motivation to this coverup, just that stuff like this - in this case, the coverup of rape and other abuse of juvenile prisoners - is a natural, to-be-expected side effect of the sort of cronyism and hackery that goes with politicization.
New evidence that a Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney maliciously prosecuted an innocent woman for political purposes … .
Boyo Jim started a thread on it here.
If a Democrat wins the presidency, I think the first thing that he should do is rehire those fired Attorneys, even if they are Republican friendly. It seems pretty obvious that they consider doing their job correctly more important than partisan politics, so I see no reason that their party affiliation should make any difference.
I noticed in one of the links that one of the fired attorneys cited John Ashcroft, who apparently said “Politics have no part of your job at U.S. attorney”. The shit has hit the fan when I come to the conclusion that Ashcroft was a better AG than what we have now.
And in Wisconsin, a swing state. Who’d’a thunk?
Meanwhile, next door in Minnesota…hey, isn’t Minnesota a swing state too? What a coinkydink!
Alternatively, it’s about porn: http: //susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2007/04/the_sexual_poli.html
(link broken because it’s NSFW)
Errmm . . . look, just because Ashcroft said that doesn’t mean he meant it. Gonzalez has said quite similar things.
But Ashcroft actually said it in private to one of the attorneys. Don’t get me wrong, Aschcroft was bad. I’m just noting that it’s pretty scary when I think that even he might be a better choice than the current AG. It’s much like pining for Nixon these days.
Update: The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Gonzalez to produce hundreds of pages of new documents.
Christy Hardin Smith’s favorite paragraph (and mine too) from Conyers’ letter:
Underlining mine.
A very interesting article on the official activities of some of the USA’s who didn’t get fired.
True, all USAs serve at the pleasure of the POTUS and can be fired for any reason or none; but with the above, we’re starting to get into impeachable-offense territory.
Same with WH staff using non-WH e-mail servers for official business, a clear attempt to circumvent the Presidential Records Act.
Well, darn the luck!
Isn’t that admission more than enough to provoke some sort of prosecution for attempting to evade the Presidential Records Act?