Shakeup at DoJ
The calls for Alberto Gonzales’ firing are having some effect. Today his top aide Kyle Sampson resigned. Today an email exchange between Sampson and Harriet Miers discussing Attorneys that should be pushed out was released. The exchange shows a link directly to Bush and Rove to the firings. Now the wingers will be flocking to this thread talking about how Clinton fired all of them when he took ofice. I will point out that the difference here appears to be that Clinton got rid of everyone, rather than selectively removing a few that were political liabilities or unwilling to play ball.
The Pete Domenici situation alone is enough to throw all of the firings into question. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) called the US Attorney David Iglesias to see if he was going indict Democrats in the runup to the elections in November. When Iglesias said no, Domenici hung up on him. There is a similar tale to go with Doc Hastings (R-WA).
Tags: National Republicans
Seriously, its at the point where discussing GOP corruption and betrayal of our country is like making fun of retarded people.
I have the feeling the damage of the last eight years is going to take a long time to set straight.
this is such a non story. No one was killed, there is no oil, No CIA agent, No WMD’s, geeze what is wrong with this country? Who cares about this stuff?
Bush is in Latin America for Christ’s sake on promoting his social agenda!
that is news!
Yep, Clinton fired all the leftover US attorneys (except for Michael Chertoff, who got a plug from Sen. Bill Bradley) and Reagan fired everybody before that. GWB considered a clean sweep, but held off, part of the “uniter not a divider” strategy perhaps. It’s the President’s prerogative, and the Governor’s, and the County Executive’s as well to cut loose all political appointees from previous admins. End of story. What you and everyone else fails to mention is that GWB is firing people whom he appointed himself for not living up to expectations. DonV is correct in saying this is a non-story, even in his feeble attempt at irony.
Now, if you wanted to discuss the FBI’s disturbing propensity for the use of National Security letters as a violation of due process, you would have something to yell about.