13 March, 2007

more dirty every day

Seven U.S. attorneys were fired on Dec. 7, and another was fired months earlier, with little explanation from the Justice Department. Several former prosecutors have since alleged intimidation, including improper telephone calls from GOP lawmakers or their aides, and have alleged threats of retaliation by a Justice Department official.

While it is unclear whether the documents will answer Congress's questions, they show that the White House and other administration officials were more closely involved in the dismissals, and at a much earlier date, than they have previously acknowledged.

I recommend that the Department of Justice and the Office of the Counsel to the President work together to seek the replacement of a limited number of U.S. Attorneys," Sampson wrote to Harriet Miers in January 2006.Now she has resigned from the White House. You remember her, she was rejected primarily by the Republican Senators for the Supreme Court. Another fall guy(lady).

The documents also provide new details about the case of Griffin, a former Rove aide and Republican National Committee researcher who was named interim U.S. attorney in Little Rock in December.

E-mails show that Justice officials discussed bypassing the two Democratic senators in Arkansas, who normally would have had input into the appointment, as early as last August. By mid-December, Sampson was suggesting that Gonzales exercise his newfound appointment authority to put Griffin in place until the end of Bush's term.

Karl Rove had an early conversation with Miers about the idea of firing all chief prosecutors and did not think it was wise. Aha, the dirty hands of Rove, and Bush didn't know anything. "Ya, right!

The neocon republicans get more dirty every day.
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