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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Rise And Fall Of David N. Kelly (Dem.) And James B. Comey (Rep.)
I'm turning in my 'puter for a couple of weeks and I wanted to fix my blond moment boo boos. I don't really have the patience to write these kinds of posts, so bear with me.
I took this time line, compiled from many different sources, and filled it in with the story of two attorneys.
2001
Beginning Jan. 20, 2001 -- Bush administration appoints begins nominating U.S attorneys to replace the Clinton administration's top prosecutors.
Sept. 11-- 9/11
Oct. 26 -- President Bush signs into law the USA Patriot Act.
2002
Kelley -- serves from 2002-2003 as Deputy United States Attorney, and is named on September 11, 2001 as co-chair of the Justice Department's nationwide investigation into the 9/11 attacks.
Comey -- The United States Senate confirms as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Comey, 41, has been serving in that position since he was appointed on Jan. 7.
2003
July -- The Justice Department's congressional liaison, William Moschella, corresponds with a department lawyer about the prospect of taking away federal district court judges' power to appoint interim U.S. attorneys.
December -- President Bush rewards U.S. Attorney James Comey with the no. 2 job at the Department of Justice. Comey is responsible for picking Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago. David N. Kelley, the former deputy to James B. Comey Jr., the United States attorney for the southern district of New York, is appointed to replace him on an interim basis for 120 days, or until a permanent replacement is named.
2004
March -- Kelley is the special prosecutor of the investigation into the unauthorized use of Senate computers by Republican aides. He is appointed in March, 2004, and then no report, nothing.
March 9 -- With then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in the hospital, acting Attorney General James Comey and other Justice lawyers are called to the White House to explain why they won't recertify a classified surveillance program. Cheney, his counsel David Addington, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card attend. Cheney and his staff later quash the promotion of one Justice lawyer in retaliation for his stance, Comey said.
March 10 -- Gonzales and Card go around Comey, making a late-night hospital visit to get Ashcroft to certify the program. When Ashcroft refuses to over-ride Comey, the White House continues the program without Justice's approval, agreeing to changes weeks later to stave off mass resignations. Bush gives Comey a derisive nickname, as “Cuomey” or “Cuomo” after New York’s former liberal Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, Newsweek reports.
November -- Bush taps Gonzales as attorney general to replace Ashcroft, who's resigning.
Kelley not only continues to run the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, but the deputy position he left to take the job also remains unfilled.
2005
Jan. 6 -- Rove asks the White House Counsel's Office ''how we planned to proceed regarding U.S. attorneys'' according to e-mail between administration staffers. The options include replacing none of them, replacing all 93 U.S. attorneys or replacing some of them.
Jan. 9 -- Justice Department aide Kyle Sampson tells the White House Counsel's Office that he's discussed the matter with Gonzales and that they would aim to replace up to 20 percent of the U.S. attorneys. Not included are ``loyal Bushies.''
February -- A divided Senate confirms Gonzales as attorney general.
March -- On March 7, 2005, Brian McGuire writes an editorial in the New York Sun that asks why Kelley, a Democrat, is still around.
Sampson draws and sends a list to the White House that ranks all of the U.S. attorneys on their loyalty to the administration.
July -- Kelley is replaced. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Michael J. Garcia, who has headed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since the agency's creation in March 2003, is named by the White House as U.S. attorney in New York.
August -- Comey resigns, leaving a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey is the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to.
October -- Bush first tries to replace Comey with Timothy Flanigan, a former deputy White House counsel. But Flanigan’s nomination founders. He nominates McNulty on Oct. 20. McNulty was chief counsel to the Republican-run House Judiciary Committee when it pressed for impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1998. McNulty also headed Bush’s Justice Department transition team after Election 2000.
-- Cheney chief of staff Libby is indicted for obstruction of justice and perjury related to CIA leak case. Gonzales chief of staff Sampson later tells senators that he had proposed putting special prosecutor Fitzgerald on the firing list in 2006 but the idea went nowhere.
November -- Justice's congressional liaison Moschella crafts language to insert into the Patriot Act reauthorization that, unbeknown to lawmakers, allows the administration to name interim U.S. attorneys to serve indefinitely. The revision effectively strips the Senate's confirmation power over interim U.S. attorneys.
And the rest, is history.
I don't think this is anything nefarious, but I thought it was interesting.
By David Von Drehle and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 1, 2004
I took this time line, compiled from many different sources, and filled it in with the story of two attorneys.
2001
Beginning Jan. 20, 2001 -- Bush administration appoints begins nominating U.S attorneys to replace the Clinton administration's top prosecutors.
Sept. 11-- 9/11
Oct. 26 -- President Bush signs into law the USA Patriot Act.
2002
Kelley -- serves from 2002-2003 as Deputy United States Attorney, and is named on September 11, 2001 as co-chair of the Justice Department's nationwide investigation into the 9/11 attacks.
Comey -- The United States Senate confirms as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Comey, 41, has been serving in that position since he was appointed on Jan. 7.
2003
July -- The Justice Department's congressional liaison, William Moschella, corresponds with a department lawyer about the prospect of taking away federal district court judges' power to appoint interim U.S. attorneys.
December -- President Bush rewards U.S. Attorney James Comey with the no. 2 job at the Department of Justice. Comey is responsible for picking Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago. David N. Kelley, the former deputy to James B. Comey Jr., the United States attorney for the southern district of New York, is appointed to replace him on an interim basis for 120 days, or until a permanent replacement is named.
2004
March -- Kelley is the special prosecutor of the investigation into the unauthorized use of Senate computers by Republican aides. He is appointed in March, 2004, and then no report, nothing.
March 9 -- With then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in the hospital, acting Attorney General James Comey and other Justice lawyers are called to the White House to explain why they won't recertify a classified surveillance program. Cheney, his counsel David Addington, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card attend. Cheney and his staff later quash the promotion of one Justice lawyer in retaliation for his stance, Comey said.
March 10 -- Gonzales and Card go around Comey, making a late-night hospital visit to get Ashcroft to certify the program. When Ashcroft refuses to over-ride Comey, the White House continues the program without Justice's approval, agreeing to changes weeks later to stave off mass resignations. Bush gives Comey a derisive nickname, as “Cuomey” or “Cuomo” after New York’s former liberal Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, Newsweek reports.
November -- Bush taps Gonzales as attorney general to replace Ashcroft, who's resigning.
Kelley not only continues to run the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, but the deputy position he left to take the job also remains unfilled.
2005
Jan. 6 -- Rove asks the White House Counsel's Office ''how we planned to proceed regarding U.S. attorneys'' according to e-mail between administration staffers. The options include replacing none of them, replacing all 93 U.S. attorneys or replacing some of them.
Jan. 9 -- Justice Department aide Kyle Sampson tells the White House Counsel's Office that he's discussed the matter with Gonzales and that they would aim to replace up to 20 percent of the U.S. attorneys. Not included are ``loyal Bushies.''
February -- A divided Senate confirms Gonzales as attorney general.
March -- On March 7, 2005, Brian McGuire writes an editorial in the New York Sun that asks why Kelley, a Democrat, is still around.
Sampson draws and sends a list to the White House that ranks all of the U.S. attorneys on their loyalty to the administration.
July -- Kelley is replaced. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Michael J. Garcia, who has headed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since the agency's creation in March 2003, is named by the White House as U.S. attorney in New York.
August -- Comey resigns, leaving a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey is the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to.
October -- Bush first tries to replace Comey with Timothy Flanigan, a former deputy White House counsel. But Flanigan’s nomination founders. He nominates McNulty on Oct. 20. McNulty was chief counsel to the Republican-run House Judiciary Committee when it pressed for impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1998. McNulty also headed Bush’s Justice Department transition team after Election 2000.
-- Cheney chief of staff Libby is indicted for obstruction of justice and perjury related to CIA leak case. Gonzales chief of staff Sampson later tells senators that he had proposed putting special prosecutor Fitzgerald on the firing list in 2006 but the idea went nowhere.
November -- Justice's congressional liaison Moschella crafts language to insert into the Patriot Act reauthorization that, unbeknown to lawmakers, allows the administration to name interim U.S. attorneys to serve indefinitely. The revision effectively strips the Senate's confirmation power over interim U.S. attorneys.
And the rest, is history.
I don't think this is anything nefarious, but I thought it was interesting.
By David Von Drehle and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 1, 2004
Fitzgerald's personal friendship with No. 2 Department of Justice official James B. Comey Jr. -- he is the godfather of one of Comey's children -- leaves some critics complaining that top administration officials still have too much control over an investigation that is centered on the White House.¶ 10:31 AM 0 comments
It was in the Manhattan office, pursuing mobsters and terrorists, that Fitzgerald and Comey became best friends, two of the "bomb boys," as the terrorism prosecutors were known around the office. They entertained colleagues with their endless comic banter -- "like 'The Brothers McMullen,' " said one movie-loving co-worker -- with Fitzie playing the straight man, except for the occasional acerbic aside.
David N. Kelley, the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, is another former "bomb boy"; he has known Fitzgerald for 15 years and has taken vacations with him. Kelley and others who are close to Fitzgerald stress that, while he is tough and aggressive, he is not unreasonable or overzealous.
The Day The Music Is Resurrected.
There are so many musical geniuses that never get played on FM. There are so many great protest songs, chick rockers, alternative music that radio ignores. They make playlists and broadcast what they want us to hear. Today, is the day to think who we want to write the history of rock and roll. When FM first started broadcasting, it was called The Underground. Internet radio is even better than The Underground ever was.
And now "they" want to make Internet radio "pay their fair share." Internet radio stations that had a $2,000 annual bill will now be asked to pay an additional $80,000 to $100,000. These royalty rates are due to go into effect on July 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006.) Webcasters will be asked to pay more money than they bring in and come up with a huge retroactive fee! Obviously, someone just wants to shut these stations down.
Internet radios already pay royalty rates that are higher than other broadcaster.
Internet radio stations do support alternative legislation that would still require the stations to pay a higher royalty rate than any other class of broadcaster in the US.
Internet radio stations pay royalty rates to independent musicians who would not otherwise have their music broadcasted on any airwaves.
Today is Internet Radio's day of silent protest. If you would like to help save the future of Internet radio, call or write to your representative today. Urge them to support THE INTERNET RADIO EQUALITY ACT, S. 1353 IN THE SENATE AND H.R. 2060 IN THE HOUSE.
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And now "they" want to make Internet radio "pay their fair share." Internet radio stations that had a $2,000 annual bill will now be asked to pay an additional $80,000 to $100,000. These royalty rates are due to go into effect on July 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006.) Webcasters will be asked to pay more money than they bring in and come up with a huge retroactive fee! Obviously, someone just wants to shut these stations down.
Internet radios already pay royalty rates that are higher than other broadcaster.
Internet radio stations do support alternative legislation that would still require the stations to pay a higher royalty rate than any other class of broadcaster in the US.
Internet radio stations pay royalty rates to independent musicians who would not otherwise have their music broadcasted on any airwaves.
Today is Internet Radio's day of silent protest. If you would like to help save the future of Internet radio, call or write to your representative today. Urge them to support THE INTERNET RADIO EQUALITY ACT, S. 1353 IN THE SENATE AND H.R. 2060 IN THE HOUSE.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
What Is The Real Obscenity?
It's the war stupid. This wasn't exactly the way I wanted to start my week. I was going to wake up, blog something deliciously snarky, and then pat myself on the back. Then, I read Atrios, Johnny Got Your Gun.
The war is why I blog, even if war is just too awful for me to even think about. I get hysterical when I see a dead animal. I hope that anyone reading this realizes that I am not using someone else's pain to make a point. There is no point. War destroys the lives of our best and brightest. War destroys families. War destroys countries.
There is a way that we can honor the troops, by Rebuilding Together. ¶ 8:00 AM 0 comments
The war is why I blog, even if war is just too awful for me to even think about. I get hysterical when I see a dead animal. I hope that anyone reading this realizes that I am not using someone else's pain to make a point. There is no point. War destroys the lives of our best and brightest. War destroys families. War destroys countries.
There is a way that we can honor the troops, by Rebuilding Together. ¶ 8:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, June 24, 2007
The Mainstream Media.
Just for the record, I do not exactly ascribe to the view that blogs are responsible for promoting certain news that the MSM ignores. Interestingly, people consider cable news to be the MSM. These same people actually pay for the news that they denounce everytime they pay their cable bill.
Give credit to the reporters who first break a story. Give credit to a blogger who investigates and reports something that another blog or small town paper isn't reporting about. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to wonder why one sees the exact same stories on the big blogs.
TPM broke the story about the Plum Book and the powers it gave to the office of the vice president. Then, Josh Marshall asked the question, "What took the non-blogging political world so long?" The Seattle Times certainly gave credit to Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune on April 30, 2006 when he broke the story. It was a simple thing to google that article and also give credit to a comment made by Pity the Fool in Think Progress on January 25, 2007. A big shout out to Mark Silva and Pity the Fool, for being the first ones to realize the importance of the Plum Book's revised description of the new and improved dual role of the vice president. ¶ 2:53 AM 0 comments
Give credit to the reporters who first break a story. Give credit to a blogger who investigates and reports something that another blog or small town paper isn't reporting about. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to wonder why one sees the exact same stories on the big blogs.
TPM broke the story about the Plum Book and the powers it gave to the office of the vice president. Then, Josh Marshall asked the question, "What took the non-blogging political world so long?" The Seattle Times certainly gave credit to Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune on April 30, 2006 when he broke the story. It was a simple thing to google that article and also give credit to a comment made by Pity the Fool in Think Progress on January 25, 2007. A big shout out to Mark Silva and Pity the Fool, for being the first ones to realize the importance of the Plum Book's revised description of the new and improved dual role of the vice president. ¶ 2:53 AM 0 comments
Saturday, June 23, 2007
James And The Giant Peach.
James Comey has told some very troubling tales. I missed the hearings, however, I don't believe that he told this story. In March, 2004,
the Senate sergeant-at-arms concluded in a 65-page report that two Republican staff aides had engaged in widespread, unauthorized and possibly illegal spying by reading Democratic strategy memorandums on a Senate computer system.Because of the seriousness of the issues, a bipartisan decision to bring in a special prosecutor, David N. Kelley, was made. I don't know how the case was resolved, but flash forward to 2005. In the middle of Plamegate, Deputy Attorney General James Comey "stepped down." Comey was
Over at least 18 months, the aides improperly read, downloaded and printed 4,670 files concerning Democratic tactics in opposing many of Mr. Bush's judicial nominees, the report said, and some of the material was leaked to conservative groups supporting the nominees and news media outlets.
The sergeant-at-arms suggested that the unauthorized spying could have violated laws against the receipt of stolen property and lying to investigators, among others. The report also suggested that many other Republican aides might have been involved in trafficking in the stolen documents, and Democrats have questioned whether officials at the Justice Department and the White House were also privy to the material in working to support Mr. Bush's nominees and derail Democratic opposition.
The two aides implicated in the affair have both left the Senate. One, Manuel C. Miranda, who had worked for both the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, and Senator Orrin G. Hatch, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has defended his conduct in numerous interviews, saying he was able to access the computer memorandums because of Democratic negligence in securing them, not because of any theft or criminal wrongdoing.
the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to.I don't know who Fitzgerald eventually reported to. ¶ 6:44 PM 0 comments
A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush.
Remember when? They sure as heck didn't forget in Colorado. I tracked down Waldo. He's in Beaver Creek. I am so blogged out that I'm not making any sense at all.
Senator Secrecy is there too. Can anyone tell me what secret mission Dick Cheney is carrying out? Exactly what does the President of the Senate, formerly known as the Vice-President do? Inquiring minds would like to know. ¶ 4:47 PM 0 comments
Senator Secrecy is there too. Can anyone tell me what secret mission Dick Cheney is carrying out? Exactly what does the President of the Senate, formerly known as the Vice-President do? Inquiring minds would like to know. ¶ 4:47 PM 0 comments
Where's Waldo?
Update: Yeppers. Nobody even knew that Cheney was making an appearance. Slippery Dick.
Yesterday, Dick Cheney visited Kennesaw Mountain National Battleground Park, in North Georgia. This pic looks like it was taken with a cell phone. ¶ 4:42 PM 0 comments
Update: Yeppers. Nobody even knew that Cheney was making an appearance. Slippery Dick.Yesterday, Dick Cheney visited Kennesaw Mountain National Battleground Park, in North Georgia. This pic looks like it was taken with a cell phone. ¶ 4:42 PM 0 comments
Will The AG Order The VP To Comply?
for refusing
what had been routine requests from the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives about his handling of classified data.Cheney says that his office is not part of the Executive Branch. Dick Dick Dick. No funds for you! According to Raw Story, Rahm Emanuel will be introducing an Amendment in the House to cut funding to Cheney's office. Logical consequences. You gotta love it. ¶ 4:08 PM 0 comments
It's Delightful In Dubai.
If you like Universal Studios more than Disney World.
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Bush Has Been Up To No Good.
He did take the time to speak to about 250 people in a hot gymnasium in Alabama about the importance of nuclear power. It's good to know that the infamous nuclear power plant (a nearby candle almost caused a catastrophe) is finally back on line.
What a cheap, two-faced conservative. He uses taxpayer money and gives pathetic speeches to pay for his Republican fundraising tour.
Organizers staged an anti-war protest in Mobile, of all places. The Bush legacy continues. ¶ 11:32 AM 0 comments
What a cheap, two-faced conservative. He uses taxpayer money and gives pathetic speeches to pay for his Republican fundraising tour.
Organizers staged an anti-war protest in Mobile, of all places. The Bush legacy continues. ¶ 11:32 AM 0 comments
NOLA's The Murder Capital Of The US.
UN? Human Rights organizations? Jimmy Carter? Al Gore? Patrick Leahy? John Conyers? Is anyone out there? Small groups of volunteers can't do it all. How many hurdles do these people in New Orleans have to overcome? If the tourists leave, what will these poor souls do?
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To Boldly Go Where No Lib Has Gone Before.
Going green in Mississippi with polystyrene blocks:
That's something Lumberton High School junior Josh Gipson said South Mississippi needs.It's a win-win situation. The mayor of Lumberton agrees. ¶ 9:58 AM 0 comments
The 17-year-old said he became concerned about global warming after seeing former Vice President Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth."
Gipson said he and a group of friends started trying to spread the word about the need to think environmentally.
Bush Approval: About 80 Million Americans.
I did the math. Here's one of the 26%. Can you feel the love?
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Al To Announce In August.
Martin Sheen said that Al told him so. Funny, that Al didn't tell his daughter or his former aides.
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Mercer. Gone Like A Freight Train.
You can read it for yourself. Do a search here, at my lil blog. I told you so.
;)
Update: Whoa, Nelly! Patrick Leahy is framing this story.
;)
Update: Whoa, Nelly! Patrick Leahy is framing this story.
"The White House has found many ways to keep sunlight from reaching some of the darker corners of the Bush Justice Department, but this is a new one," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said in a statement. "With a confirmation hearing looming next Tuesday, they have withdrawn this nomination to avoid having to answer more questions under oath."Let's get real here. These attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. He has the answers. ¶ 9:01 AM 0 comments
Words Of The Wise.
The vice presidency wasn't worth a "warm bucket of spit," according to former Vice President John Nance Garner. It's worth even less now.
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Cheney's On Crack. (Again.)
How can you tell when a crack head is lying? He opens his mouth.
Crack use is on the rise. I thought I saw a picture of Rasmussen coming out of one of those crack houses last week. He said that Cheney approval ratings were holding steady at 38%. Crack does that to you.
Somewhere in the middle of 38% and 13% is the true percentage of Cheney's silent minority. How come I never run across any of them? Do these people really believe that only 18% of the country approves of Harry Reid, the same number that approves of Scooter Libby? They're still turning this stuff into Kool Aid and making a killing. However, I've never been a bird fly so high that it didn't come down sometime. ¶ 10:01 AM 0 comments
"'Here's a guy who raises 'executive privilege' to historic levels to exempt himself from all rules and oversight, and now he says he's not part of the executive branch?' said Silverstein. 'Here we have a subordinate part of the executive branch asserting independent constitutional authority even against its own superior. It is flabbergasting.'"The VP neither confirms nor denies he tried to abolish the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office. National security didn't mean anything to him when it came to outing a CIA officer. Doesn't anyone have oversight over this philistine?
Crack use is on the rise. I thought I saw a picture of Rasmussen coming out of one of those crack houses last week. He said that Cheney approval ratings were holding steady at 38%. Crack does that to you.
Somewhere in the middle of 38% and 13% is the true percentage of Cheney's silent minority. How come I never run across any of them? Do these people really believe that only 18% of the country approves of Harry Reid, the same number that approves of Scooter Libby? They're still turning this stuff into Kool Aid and making a killing. However, I've never been a bird fly so high that it didn't come down sometime. ¶ 10:01 AM 0 comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007
National Security and Emails.
Hacker(s) hit the Pentagon email system. Evidently, hackers are a daily occurence. However, this hacker shut the Pentagon down. At some point, someone needs to figure out that the only people who are losing their privacy because of national security are the American people. This administration can't even figure out a way to secure the Pentagon. Doesn't that make me feel safer.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Obama's Movement And Global Warming.
Lawrence Lessig just announced that he is shifting his academic focus from fighting network and IP insanity to fighting political corruption. He mentions Obama and Gore.
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Emperor Bush.
Leader of the George Bush Empire.
I kid you not. "If there’s one empire I want built, it's the George Bush empire," said former Bush advisor and Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman in 2005 [One-Party Country, p. 102]. ¶ 3:01 PM 0 comments
I kid you not. "If there’s one empire I want built, it's the George Bush empire," said former Bush advisor and Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman in 2005 [One-Party Country, p. 102]. ¶ 3:01 PM 0 comments
Laws And Intent.
Bush believes that he can use signing statements to circumvent any law that gets in his way. He can interpret the Constitution and he can bypass laws in the name of national security and foreign relations.
Mr. Byrd and aides to Representative John Conyers Jr., the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee and joined in seeking the study, said their next step would be to explore the signing statements to determine the broad extent of their impact. Mr. Byrd noted that another agency, the Congressional Research Service, had identified 700 provisions in law questioned by the administration.¶ 2:40 PM 0 comments
“Moving forward, I plan to ask auditors to take a look at these provisions and determine what legal violations they find,” Mr. Byrd said. “Once we have the facts, we will be able to determine the next steps.”
Patrick Fitzgerald Did Not Do His Job.
And no one is saying a word. I could be wrong, but in the middle of a serious investigation, shouldn't his fine legal mind pick up on the fact that destroying records is a violation of the PRA?
I assume that he had to see at least one email from the RNC server. Did his fine legal staff realize that these emails were not about campaign business? I wish I could answer these questions, however, Meow Meow (pronounced mew mew,) needs cat food. ¶ 10:41 AM 0 comments
I assume that he had to see at least one email from the RNC server. Did his fine legal staff realize that these emails were not about campaign business? I wish I could answer these questions, however, Meow Meow (pronounced mew mew,) needs cat food. ¶ 10:41 AM 0 comments
Karl Rove's Computer.
Catch it while you can, the computer, that is. KR is sure to figure out a way to lose his computer as well as his emails. After all, he is Karl Rove. ¶ 10:19 AM 0 comments
Catch it while you can, the computer, that is. KR is sure to figure out a way to lose his computer as well as his emails. After all, he is Karl Rove. ¶ 10:19 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Email Message History. When Did KR Start Using The RNC Server?
Was The Server Secure?
Here's a blast from a past post:
Question: Let's see if this was just a stalling technique.
Answer: Yes it was a stalling technique. They knew the emails were missing:
Alberto G. Gonzalez had told Karl Rove when and how to back his email files.
Does Fitz have something to hide?
Here's a blast from a past post:
Question: Let's see if this was just a stalling technique.
Answer: Yes it was a stalling technique. They knew the emails were missing:
Q Dana, is there a limit to the mailbox size with the RNC accounts? Do you know that level of detail, whether you'd have to delete at some point or you couldn't get any more emails?When did Rove start using the RNC mail server?
MS. PERINO: I don't know. I know that oftentimes our computers can slow down, but we have an automatic archiving system that comes through and cleans it up for us. And all of the emails, except for the ones -- the very small slice of the universe I've told you about that have the GWB accounts -- any email that touches any part of an EOP or White House server or computer, those are automaticallypreserved.
Fitzgerald was concerned that Rove had hidden or destroyed a very important document tying him to the leak. His suspicions may have been right: an email he sent to then Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in early July 2003 later proved Rove had spoken to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about Plame-a fact that Rove omitted when he was first interviewed by the FBI.After that incident, Karl started the RNC server 95% of the time on taxpayer money. Was the server secure? Why was he so confident that the emails would never be recovered before and after the investigation?
Alberto G. Gonzalez had told Karl Rove when and how to back his email files.
The documents included a memorandum from then-White House General Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, who is now attorney general, cautioning employees that "any e-mail relating to official business … qualifies as a presidential record."Who was keeping the backup tapes?
None would name the staffers and/or officials whom Rove is providing information about. They did, however, explain that the White House computer system has "real time backup" servers and that while emails were deleted from computers, they were still retrievable from the backup system. By providing the dates and recipient information of the deleted emails, sources say, Rove was able to chart a path for Fitzgerald directly into the office of the Vice President.Excuses, excuses, excuses. They're like backsides. They all stink.
Why didn't the Rove e-mail surface earlier? The lawyer says it's because an electronic search conducted by the White House missed it because the right "search words" weren't used. (The White House and Fitzgerald both declined to comment.)Then there is the question, who in God's creation is Rob Kelner? He's the lawyer who said no more deletions for you!
A lawyer for the RNC told congressional investigators that the RNC may be able to recover some of those e-mails sent from August 2004 on. That's when the RNC put a hold on an automatic purge policy.The article also mentions an automatic purge policy. Doesn't that take the cake?
A lawyer for the RNC told congressional investigators that the RNC may be able to recover some of those e-mails sent from August 2004 on. That's when the RNC put a hold on an automatic purge policy.Remember when? Check out the Cheney and Libby dispute. If Karl Rove was warned by the AG and the lawyer from the RNC shouldn't he have already figured out how to archive his correspondence?
According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush's senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent "discovery" of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.......What else did the "senior advisers" say to Fitzgerald? Inquiring minds want to know just who who these senior advisers were.
According to one source close to the case, Rove is providing information on deleted emails, erased hard drives and other types of obstruction by staff and other officials in the Vice President's office. Pentagon sources close to Rove confirmed this account.
Does Fitz have something to hide?
He said he hadn't discussed the matter with anyone at the Justice Department but made it clear he had been kidded plenty.
The RNC lawyer, also said that the Republican committee has none of Rove's e-mails on its server prior to 2005, possibly because Rove deleted them, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.Did you know that is cost several million dollars to reconstruct the emails from the Clinton White House? Randall Sanborn (who is he?), Patrick Fitzgerald's spokesman, refused to comment on the half-ass investigatory skills of the US attorney and his staff. Come to think of it, it's pretty interesting that they used a US attorney to investigate the Plame affair. Fitzgerald has maintained that there was no evidence pertinent to the Plame case in the emails in question. Indeed. Wasn't there a violation of the Presidential Records Act?
Sometime in 2005, the RNC took action solely to prevent Rove from deleting his e-mails on that server. One reason for specifying Rove, Waxman said, appears to have been pending legal action against him.
A spokesman for Mr. Fitzgerald, Randall Samborn, also declined to comment. The letter does not indicate how thoroughly prosecutors explored the issue of the missing e-mails. However, Mr. Fitzgerald wrote that he did not believe any evidence disappeared that was relevant to the charges against Mr. Libby.Why wasn't Patrick Fitzgerald taken off the list?
US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading a CIA leak investigation that resulted in the perjury conviction of a vice presidential aide, administration officials said yesterday.Axed attorneys, Daniel Bogden (Nevada) and Paul K. Charlton (Arizona) received the same grade. As my students would say, "It isn't fair." ¶ 8:33 PM 0 comments
The ranking placed Fitzgerald below "strong US Attorneys . . . who exhibited loyalty" to the administration but above "weak US Attorneys who . . . chafed against Administration initiatives, etc.," according to Justice documents.
Gonzo's Going Down.
Aren't these two just like peas in a pod?
It's just a matter of time. They'll find the lost emails that the White House is trying to hide. In any event, the AG warned Rove and others to save emails. A crime has been committed. Jurist has a link to interim report (pdf) that's on the The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee website.
It's just a matter of time. They'll find the lost emails that the White House is trying to hide. In any event, the AG warned Rove and others to save emails. A crime has been committed. Jurist has a link to interim report (pdf) that's on the The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee website.
The committee said that it will seek to recover the lost records from federal agencies that were often the recipients of the e-mails, and will seek to expand the investigation into whether former White House Counsel and current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [JURIST news archive] was aware of the use of RNC e-mail accounts by White House officials and if Gonzales took steps to preserve the RNC e-mail records pursuant to the PRA.¶ 8:11 PM 0 comments
Answer: Talk About Orgies
And Torture.
Question: How do you engage Justice Scalia in conversation? ¶ 5:53 PM 0 comments
Question: How do you engage Justice Scalia in conversation? ¶ 5:53 PM 0 comments
Emails Kill Filed.
update:
Impeachment? Every scandal points to a systematic attempt to subvert the constitution, but I don't see any reason at all to impeach the President and Vice President. What for? I used to want impeachment to ensure that this administration's record would be preserved in the history books. Impeachment isn't needed for the history books. The magnitude of this administration's failures will be duly recorded.
George Bush and Dick Cheney were both willing to sacrifice people's lives to achieve a dark purpose. They had the gall to cover their dirty deeds with the flag of patriotism. Their grand scheme failed. Bush will go down in infamy, his record written in blood. The worst president and vice president in this nation's history will be remembered. Their crimes will not be forgotten. Instead of impeachment, efforts would be better spent uncovering each attempt to politicize the justice system.
It is relatively easy to track down the emails that were subsequently forwarded to other members of the administration. We all know that when we respond to emails, sometimes we leave the whole memo attached to our responses. Many of these emails will be saved on the White House server. Go after the emails and the Republicans that destroyed the emails. Use the full extent of the law. Put the mf's in jail. ¶ 10:30 AM 0 comments
update:
Let’s play a game this Tuesday. See if you can guess who/which organization offered this gem: “The rule of law, the very foundation for a free society, has been under assault, not only by criminals from the ground up, but also from the top down. An administration that lives by evasion, coverup, stonewalling, and duplicity has given us a totally discredited Department of Justice. The credibility of those who now manage the nation’s top law enforcement agency is tragically eroded. We are fortunate to have its dedicated career workforce, especially its criminal prosecutors, who have faced the unprecedented politicization of decisions regarding both personnel and investigations.”The Brad Blog puts the scandal in perspective.
Is the answer: 1) A Democratic loudmouth on the Senate Judiciary Committee? 2) A smarmy Democratic presidential candidate? 3) The relentless folks from moveon.org? 4) That guy on HBO who is less funny than he thinks he is? Nope. The correct answer is, surprise surprise, the 2000 Republican National Platform. That’s right. The platform upon which President George W. Bush first ran for and won the presidency contained precisely the sort of language that his most strident critics might be tempted to use today as the U.S. Attorney scandal swirls downward to a whole new level.
Over 140,000 emails from and to Karl Rove have been preserved. However, only 130 of these preserved were Rove’s emails from the first Bush term. Not 130,000. Just 130.I want to know when the emails disappeared. At the very least, I want to know exactly when the emails were discovered missing. I really want to know how there can be gaps in the emails that were saved. I want to know exactly when these email accounts were set up for the various staff members of the administration and what duties did these individuals perform for the RNC. Finally, I want to know who was in charge of archiving the documents. Geeze Louise, the public has been waiting patiently for these emails to be turned over for quite some time.
No wonder presidential records are an issue here. The years that gave us...
• Chandra Levy,
• Enron,
• September 11, 2001,
• The anthrax mailings,
• The assassination of Assistant US Attorney Thomas C. Wales, in Seattle,
• The attack on pitiful Afghanistan,
• The “hunt” for Osama bin Laden,
• The lead-up to war on Iraq,
• The DC sniper attacks of fall 2002, and
• The “capture” of Saddam Hussein
...are only fragmentarily preserved for Americans, as far as official historical record goes.
Now why would that be?
Impeachment? Every scandal points to a systematic attempt to subvert the constitution, but I don't see any reason at all to impeach the President and Vice President. What for? I used to want impeachment to ensure that this administration's record would be preserved in the history books. Impeachment isn't needed for the history books. The magnitude of this administration's failures will be duly recorded.
George Bush and Dick Cheney were both willing to sacrifice people's lives to achieve a dark purpose. They had the gall to cover their dirty deeds with the flag of patriotism. Their grand scheme failed. Bush will go down in infamy, his record written in blood. The worst president and vice president in this nation's history will be remembered. Their crimes will not be forgotten. Instead of impeachment, efforts would be better spent uncovering each attempt to politicize the justice system.
It is relatively easy to track down the emails that were subsequently forwarded to other members of the administration. We all know that when we respond to emails, sometimes we leave the whole memo attached to our responses. Many of these emails will be saved on the White House server. Go after the emails and the Republicans that destroyed the emails. Use the full extent of the law. Put the mf's in jail. ¶ 10:30 AM 0 comments
Monday, June 18, 2007
Another Wedge Shot.
Check out the shoes. Gee, doesn't it look like the two of them are a little unsteady on their feet? Poor Laura. All those plane trips and she'll never be a member of the mile high club. I'm glad I'm not a Republican.
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Check out the shoes. Gee, doesn't it look like the two of them are a little unsteady on their feet? Poor Laura. All those plane trips and she'll never be a member of the mile high club. I'm glad I'm not a Republican.
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Gore At 18%?
Woo Hoo. Now, if I could just believe Gallup. On second thought, who cares. Almost two out of ten of the respondents in his sample group supported Al Gore.
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Bush Is All Alone Now.
His back up, Karl Rove, is wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.
The change, say GOP operatives, is the absence of fear about being perceived as something less than an ardent Bush backer. "What's the penalty now, Karl being mad at you?" Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio asked with a laugh, referring to Bush political adviser Karl Rove. "Who cares? Even his former chief strategist (Matthew Dowd) walked away from him and pissed all over him."¶ 7:09 PM 0 comments
Signing Statements. What A Difference A Year Makes.
Last year Patrick Leahy, as a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee said,
This President has also used signing statements to challenge laws banning torture, on affirmative action and prohibiting the censorship of scientific data. In fact, time and again, this President has stood before the American people, signed laws enacted by their representatives in Congress, while all along crossing his fingers behind his back. And, while this President proudly boasts being the first modern President to have never vetoed a bill, he has cleverly used his signing statements as a de facto line-item veto to cherry-pick which laws he will enforce in a manner not contemplated by our Constitution.Bush was breaking the law a year ago and there was no investigation. This year, the Congress asked the GAO to investigate.
Under our constitutional system of government, when Congress passes a bill and the President signs it into law, that should be the end of the story. It is the law of the land unless and until repealed by Congress or invalidated by the courts. For this reason, there are grave and inherent dangers to the extensive and unprecedented use of signing statements.
When the President uses signing statements to unilaterally rewrite the laws enacted by the people’s representatives in Congress, he creates doubt about what the rule of law means in our Nation.
The limited GAO study examined signing statements concerning 19 provisions in fiscal year 2006 spending bills. It found that in six of those cases the provisions were not executed as written.Bush is laughing all the way to the bank. Speaking of banks, have you seen Inside Man, directed by Spike Lee? ¶ 6:48 PM 0 comments
In one case the Pentagon did not include separate budget justification documents explaining how the Iraq War funding was to be spent in its 2007 budget request. In another, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not submit a proposal and spending plan for housing, as Congress directed.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Al Gore And Wal Mart.
Interesting.
Wal Mart is hearing it from their shareholders and wives. Ephrata Wal-Mart Personal Sustainability Project team leader, Patty Ackley,
This is a movement. ¶ 8:06 PM 0 comments
Wal Mart is hearing it from their shareholders and wives. Ephrata Wal-Mart Personal Sustainability Project team leader, Patty Ackley,
believes the efforts began when one of Wal-Mart's chief executive officer's wives watched the Al Gore documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth.""It made such an impression on her, she turned around and got him to meet with one of our CEOs, and that's all it took," she said.
This is a movement. ¶ 8:06 PM 0 comments
Friday, June 15, 2007
Rat Bastard.
Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, resigned.
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Gregg Palast Sheds Some Light On Caging.
Vote caging and secret holds. I feel like I'm at a Skull and Bones meeting. In any event, I was right the first time. The term is not vote cadging. It's vote caging.
My search for the term ‘caging’ in the transcripts of the House Hearings, was not as easy as I thought it would be. Turns out that the term was not in the transcript. So I searched for the term, McNulty, and found Goodlings’ references to ‘caging.’ Only some editor had mis-spelled the term, ‘cadging,’ as if they didn’t know. Ever feel like someone does not want you to find something?¶ 5:14 PM 0 comments
Live Earth Antarctica.
I don't know about you, but I click on the news and it's the same ol same ol. Pentagon propaganda, the latest Hillary poll, Iraq. Then, when I can't stand it any longer, I google Al Gore. Up pops a list of all these really neat things that are happening across the planet. Obama talks about movement building. It's already happening. ¶ 3:09 PM 0 comments
There's something happening, and you don't know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?"
I don't know about you, but I click on the news and it's the same ol same ol. Pentagon propaganda, the latest Hillary poll, Iraq. Then, when I can't stand it any longer, I google Al Gore. Up pops a list of all these really neat things that are happening across the planet. Obama talks about movement building. It's already happening. ¶ 3:09 PM 0 comments
Condoleeza.
How is she going to talk her way out of this one? Why did the Bush administration turn down
$854 million in offers of foreign assistance from 151 countries following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the devastating failure of the federal levee system. According to the April 29 article, only $126.4 was accepted.¶ 3:01 PM 0 comments
Sen. Kyle, Loyal Bushie.
This Arizona newspaper is blasting Sen. Kyl.
The greater concern for his constituents back home in Arizona should be whether Kyl’s backroom shenanigans are what we sent him to Washington to do.¶ 2:49 PM 0 comments
Kyl’s commitment to being one of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ Capitol Hill waterboys is a scary situation indeed.
Gonzales is no friend of open government. As White House Counsel in the George W. Bush administration, he was an active defender of “quasi-executive privilege,” which has drastically broadened the President’s ability to hide his decision-making processes from the public and Congress.
Gonzales has also actively worked to block the release of many presidential papers from the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations despite federal law making many of those papers public 12 years after a president leaves office.
Here’s why Jon Kyl should care a lot more about what Arizona thinks and less about what Alberto Gonzales and the White House want.
The state Kyl represents was founded on populism — government by the people, of the people and for the people. We don’t trust Big Government and we don’t trust government in secret.
That is the legacy of service that this state has sent its congressional delegations to Washington with for 95 years. Jon Kyl should make his mind up now. Is he the Justice Department’s senator?
Or is he Arizona’s senator, deserving to walk in the footsteps of Barry Goldwater and Carl Hayden as a proper servant of the Grand Canyon State.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Restoring America's Dignity.
The Prime Minister of Greece promises to place a copy of Inconvenient Truth in every Greek school.
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The Prime Minister of Greece promises to place a copy of Inconvenient Truth in every Greek school.¶ 9:35 PM 0 comments
George Cardona, Loyal Bushie.
Welcome to your 15 min. of infamy.
George took over when Debra Wong Yang suddenly took another job offer. Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee at the time. In what universe would one believe that
George took over when Debra Wong Yang suddenly took another job offer. Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee at the time. In what universe would one believe that
the close attention Congress and the press are paying to United States attorneys has prevented the White House from installing a “loyal Bushie,” in Mr. Sampson’s famous phrase.Close attention, indeed. Guess who was just appointed interim US attorney (and the first two guesses don't count.) ¶ 4:52 PM 0 comments
Senator Secrecy.
He put a "secret hold" on the Open Government Act of 2007 or OPEN. It's just too ironical.
Members of the Society of Professional Journalists, the nation’s largest journalism-advocacy organization, used the power of the blogosphere to find out whose legislative bludgeon was buried in the back of open government. We called every senator, one by one, until at last — when it became clear he could hide no longer — Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), came blinking and grimacing into the sunlight and admitted that it was he who placed a secret hold ... on a bill that addresses secrecy in government."Secret holds." I never heard of them and now I'm wondering if there are more secret tricks. Secret tricks, dirty tricks, someone should write a book. Here's more on OPEN and may God bless the Society of Professional Journalists. ¶ 8:24 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
EXTRA EXTRA! AL GORE WILL RUN?
La Prensa is quoting Bill Clinton. The NY Post is running the same story. To quote Ed Gillespie, upon knowing that he would be working in the Bush WH, "I have goosebumps!"
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Dear Lord.
I read this at Slashdot: Satellite Images Document an Atrocity. If you want to see the images for yourself, go here.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Solar Power Is A Good Thing.
I was reading an interesting article in FLA Politics about Solar Energy Technology.
We would need only 10 million acres of land -- only four-tenths of one percent of the area of the United States -- to supply all of our nation's energy using PV.PV is short for photovoltaic, which means to convert the sun's energy into electricity. I don't expect too much from a state that promotes pool heaters to encourage the use of solar power. I have never seen a heated pool in South Florida except in hotels. If we don't get a move on, The Chinese will. ¶ 8:19 PM 0 comments
Florida's Voters Are Tired Of Their Votes Not Counting.
Florida moves up their primary.
Florida officials on both sides of the aisle had been supportive of the state Legislature’s decision to defy the national parties and move up the date.Senator Nelson, with all due respect, aren't your fellow state Democrats and even the state Republicans in favor of changing the date of the primary? Just who in God's creation are you representing? It sure as hell isn't Florida. ¶ 5:47 PM 0 comments
“We recognize the (national) party’s need to control the primaries, but individual states need to do what best benefits their voters,” said Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party, who acknowledged threats from the national GOP.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
Tim Griffin And Vote Cadging.
I've been googling Bud Cummins. Cadging?
cadger n.
Synonyms: cadge, beg, bum1, mooch, panhandle1
These verbs mean to ask for or obtain by charity: cadged a meal; begging for change; bum a ride; mooching food; homeless people forced to panhandle. ¶ 1:48 PM 0 comments
I believe the deputy was not fully candid about his knowledge of White House involvement in the replacement decision, failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Arkansas, inaccurately described the department's internal assessment of the Parsky commission, and failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote- cadging during his work on the president's 2004 campaign.Here's the new word that I learned today.
cadger n.
Synonyms: cadge, beg, bum1, mooch, panhandle1
These verbs mean to ask for or obtain by charity: cadged a meal; begging for change; bum a ride; mooching food; homeless people forced to panhandle. ¶ 1:48 PM 0 comments
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
shining the spotlight on voter suppression and the politization of US attorneys.
Paul Warner of Utah resigned January 27, 2006.
Thomas Heffelfinger of Minnesota resigned February 28, 2006.
Todd Graves of Missouri resigned March 24, 2006.
Is it too much to hope that someone will shine the spotlight on Utah? What happened to Paul Warner, the replaced US attorney who was re-confirmed to his position in 2003? Yes indeedy, the DoJ serves at the pleasure of the president. ¶ 9:33 AM 0 comments
In a letter sent Thursday to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Klobuchar wrote she is concerned about a news report indicating Heffelfinger may have been targeted after his office raised concerns about a law that could have discriminated against American Indian voters.Rachel Paulose, the current US attorney for the district, had no comment. Ms. Paulose is a Katherine Harris wannabe.
The report, in Thursday's edition of the Los Angeles Times, indicates former Justice official Bradley Schlozman essentially prevented any investigation into Heffelfinger's concerns.
Schlozman is scheduled to testify before the committee Tuesday. In her letter, Klobuchar asked that Leahy question Schlozman about "his efforts to effectively quash the investigation into possible voter discrimination against Native Americans; and (ii) what role, if any, Tom Heffelfinger's efforts to protect the voting rights of Minnesota's Native American communities placed him on the Department's now infamous list for termination."
Rachel K. Paulose’s swearing in on March 9 as the United States attorney in Minneapolis stirred debate in local legal circles because of the ceremonial trappings, including a performance by a municipal choir and a Marine Corps color guard, at the event attended by more than 300 people at the city’s University of St. Thomas law school.If you recall, Rachel Paulose was one of the first US attorney replacements appointed during the purge. As a Yalie and a senior aide to Paul McNulty, she must have been at the top of the loyalty list. The first two or three replacements (the initial report that I read said that 11 attorneys were replaced) were appointed with Senate approval. I was right about the eleven. The other three (11-8) had already resigned:
Rachel K. Paulose has drawn criticism since her swearing-in ceremony last month as the United States attorney in Minneapolis.
But the complaints about Ms. Paulose’s investiture seem mild in comparison with the uproar ignited on Thursday, when three of her top deputies stepped down from their leadership positions. Several of their associates described the action as a protest over what the three deputies regarded as Ms. Paulose’s ideologically driven and dictatorial managerial style.
Paul Warner of Utah resigned January 27, 2006.
Thomas Heffelfinger of Minnesota resigned February 28, 2006.
Todd Graves of Missouri resigned March 24, 2006.
Is it too much to hope that someone will shine the spotlight on Utah? What happened to Paul Warner, the replaced US attorney who was re-confirmed to his position in 2003? Yes indeedy, the DoJ serves at the pleasure of the president. ¶ 9:33 AM 0 comments
Tim Griffin And Logical Consequences.
I'm happy to report that Tim Griffin, Karl Rove's former aide, really did mean what he said when he spoke out of both sides of his mouth last February.
more: One of the names that has been submitted to replace the replacement (things that make you go hmmmmm) is Betty C. Dickey. She's a Yalie, so my bet is on her.
Is Timmy going take a top job with the Fred Thompson campaign?
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Tim Griffin, whose December appointment as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas sparked a national outcry about surreptitious changes made to a law affecting federal prosecutors, says he no longer wants the job permanently.He resigns today. Dan Bartlett is also resigning. His last day is July 4.
“I have made the decision not to let my name go forward to the Senate,” Griffin said Thursday evening.
more: One of the names that has been submitted to replace the replacement (things that make you go hmmmmm) is Betty C. Dickey. She's a Yalie, so my bet is on her.
Is Timmy going take a top job with the Fred Thompson campaign?
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