Saturday, March 17, 2007
Come On Over And Sit A Spell.
This is going to take awhile.
An e-mail suggests that former top Justice Department official Kyle Sampson tried to push Paul Warner out of office before 2005, but was stopped by Orin Hatch.
An e-mail suggests that former top Justice Department official Kyle Sampson tried to push Paul Warner out of office before 2005, but was stopped by Orin Hatch.
Warner had been re-confirmed to another four-year term as U.S. attorney in August 2003. He announced he was leaving the office in January 2006 and was nominated as a federal magistrate.Imagine that. ¶ 4:41 PM
When Warner stepped aside, Sampson had lined up support so he could take the job, including the backing of the attorney general.
Hatch, however, chose to back Brett Tolman, an assistant U.S. attorney in Utah who had been working for the Senate Judiciary Committee, first for Hatch, then for new Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
