"On his show "Real Time," Bill Maher laced into Monica Goodling and the Bush administration for appointing more than 150 graduates of a tier 4 law school to prominent position in the US government."
Link here
This clip is a must watch.
Firing U.S. Attorneys "Good Management"
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Exploding the Clinton-Did-It Defense
by Jerry Sanford
Excerpt:
"That blatant purge of top federal prosecutors was simply another arrogant and manipulative abuse of power by the Bush administration, designed to further its efforts to put this country under the control of one political party.
The Congressional Research Service recently issued a report which showed that of 468 U.S. attorney confirmations over the last 25 years, only 10 left involuntarily. In other words, the Bush administration fired almost as many U.S. attorneys in one week as had been let go over the past 25 years. The only apparent "misconduct" of the eight Bush appointees was their failure to prosecute Democrats before last year's mid-term election." LINK
by Jerry Sanford
Excerpt:
"That blatant purge of top federal prosecutors was simply another arrogant and manipulative abuse of power by the Bush administration, designed to further its efforts to put this country under the control of one political party.
The Congressional Research Service recently issued a report which showed that of 468 U.S. attorney confirmations over the last 25 years, only 10 left involuntarily. In other words, the Bush administration fired almost as many U.S. attorneys in one week as had been let go over the past 25 years. The only apparent "misconduct" of the eight Bush appointees was their failure to prosecute Democrats before last year's mid-term election." LINK
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Re: Monica Goodling resigns
DARLaWood wrote:Monica Goodling resigns..
The poster girl of Pat Robertson's Regents University law school first promised to cop the 5th Amendment if subpeonaed in U.S. Attorney-Gate,
now she quits.
Check this out:
"TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Regent University boasts that 150 of its graduates, including former top DoJ aide Monica Goodling, are serving in some capacity in the Bush administration. Lithwick noted that this is “a huge number for a 29-year-old school.” That’s certainly true; it’s also a huge number for a small right-wing college led by a radical televangelist who believes Americans brought 9/11 upon themselves."
And now:
"...shortly after Lithwick’s piece was published and the 150 figure quickly drew national attention (and a Paul Krugman column), Regent edited its About Us page — and removed the reference to the 150 Bush-hired alumni.
According to Google cache, as recently as April 12, Regent’s “facts” page included seven bullets noting graduates in various political positions, with the seventh noting, in all bold letters, “150 graduates serving in the Bush Administration.” As of yesterday, the same page is identical, except the seventh bullet has been deleted. Regent stopped bragging about staffing the administration almost immediately after someone from the media noticed." link
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Want to see what firing US Attorneys is all about? It's not "serving at the pleasure of the president' as Rs are saying. It's about using Dept of Justice to regain the U.S. Senate in 2008. It's exactly how Karl Rove works. Nothing is beneath his contempt.
A Woman Wrongly Convicted and a U.S. Attorney Who Kept His Job
By ADAM COHEN
Madison, Wis.
Opponents of Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin spent $4 million on ads last year trying to link the Democratic incumbent to a state employee who was sent to jail on corruption charges. The effort failed, and Mr. Doyle was re-elected — and now the state employee has been found to have been wrongly convicted. The entire affair is raising serious questions about why a United States attorney put an innocent woman in jail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/opini ... 4.html?ex=
1334376000&en=61b35ec21a665cce&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
A Woman Wrongly Convicted and a U.S. Attorney Who Kept His Job
By ADAM COHEN
Madison, Wis.
Opponents of Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin spent $4 million on ads last year trying to link the Democratic incumbent to a state employee who was sent to jail on corruption charges. The effort failed, and Mr. Doyle was re-elected — and now the state employee has been found to have been wrongly convicted. The entire affair is raising serious questions about why a United States attorney put an innocent woman in jail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/opini ... 4.html?ex=
1334376000&en=61b35ec21a665cce&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
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"Okay folks, let's get this back on the topic of this current issue of the questionable firings of U.S. Attorneys.
Election fraud derailment sent here.
--Savonarola, Politics moderator"
I truly wish you would have given me the poster a chance to correlate this for you. The article you moved was and is directly related to "Firing U.S. Attorneys." It reveals just why U.S. Attorneys are being fired and how Rove-Neocons are accomplishing a complete takeover of the election process. That's what "Firing U.S. Attorneys GOOD MANAGEMENT" is about.
The goal is to establish a DOJ that is at the command of Rove for 08 elections. The moved article reveals how USAs have been used for this purpose and gives insight into why the current scandal is worhty of investigation.
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Election fraud derailment sent here.
--Savonarola, Politics moderator"
I truly wish you would have given me the poster a chance to correlate this for you. The article you moved was and is directly related to "Firing U.S. Attorneys." It reveals just why U.S. Attorneys are being fired and how Rove-Neocons are accomplishing a complete takeover of the election process. That's what "Firing U.S. Attorneys GOOD MANAGEMENT" is about.
The goal is to establish a DOJ that is at the command of Rove for 08 elections. The moved article reveals how USAs have been used for this purpose and gives insight into why the current scandal is worhty of investigation.
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Congressman Boozman knew all along
"The White House recently called our sole Republican congressman (Boozman) and pretty much told him what they are doing with this appointment and how they are going about it," then-Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins wrote in a July 6, 2006, e-mail to Mike Battle, then-head of the Justice Department office that oversees federal prosecutors. Cummins' reference was to Rep. John Boozman .., R-Ark
Boozman confirmed that the White House notified him last year in a voice mail of a plan to replace Cummins.
"They said, 'We're going to replace Bud Cummins with Tim Griffin. Do you see any problem with that?'" Boozman recalled in a telephone interview late Friday.
"My reply was that that would cause problems because Bud was very well respected and has served the president well," the congressman said. He said the White House did not call back.
(Don't be too surprised if Boozer claims he was agin' the Iraqi War all along...LW)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_ ... rosecutors
Boozman confirmed that the White House notified him last year in a voice mail of a plan to replace Cummins.
"They said, 'We're going to replace Bud Cummins with Tim Griffin. Do you see any problem with that?'" Boozman recalled in a telephone interview late Friday.
"My reply was that that would cause problems because Bud was very well respected and has served the president well," the congressman said. He said the White House did not call back.
(Don't be too surprised if Boozer claims he was agin' the Iraqi War all along...LW)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_ ... rosecutors
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Gonzales now reaping what he has sown. He's going to have to learn how to make fast getaways.
Students heckle Gonzales at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A small group of student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates Saturday during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion.
"When the photographer was getting everybody set up and having people say 'cheese,' the protesters yelled: 'say torture, instead,' 'resign' and 'I don't recall,'" said Nate Ela, a protester and third-year student.
Law school spokesman Mike Armini said the impromptu protest was so small that some of those attending the photo shoot did not notice it.
Ela said the protesters followed Gonzales into the law school's library, chanting "shame" and "resign," before the attorney general's security detail took him to his motorcade.
Gonzales was at the university to deliver a lunchtime speech, a visit that was unannounced to students. But word spread quickly after his motorcade and security detail were spotted.
"The departure was clearly undignified," said Thomas Becker, a second-year law student who wore the black hood and orange jumpsuit during the protest. "He looked really annoyed."
Gonzales now reaping what he has sown. He's going to have to learn how to make fast getaways.
Students heckle Gonzales at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A small group of student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates Saturday during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion.
"When the photographer was getting everybody set up and having people say 'cheese,' the protesters yelled: 'say torture, instead,' 'resign' and 'I don't recall,'" said Nate Ela, a protester and third-year student.
Law school spokesman Mike Armini said the impromptu protest was so small that some of those attending the photo shoot did not notice it.
Ela said the protesters followed Gonzales into the law school's library, chanting "shame" and "resign," before the attorney general's security detail took him to his motorcade.
Gonzales was at the university to deliver a lunchtime speech, a visit that was unannounced to students. But word spread quickly after his motorcade and security detail were spotted.
"The departure was clearly undignified," said Thomas Becker, a second-year law student who wore the black hood and orange jumpsuit during the protest. "He looked really annoyed."
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Internal DoJ Probe Targets Goodling
AP: Internal DoJ Probe Targets Goodling
By Paul Kiel - May 2, 2007, 4:21 PM
How deep, how wide did the politicization at the Justice Department go?
From the AP:
The Justice Department is investigating whether its former White House liaison used political affiliation in deciding who to hire as entry-level prosecutors in U.S. attorneys' offices around the country, The Associated Press has learned.
Doing so is a violation of federal law.
[poster's note: Goodling will be the first in DOJ scandal to get 'Scootered']
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003137.php
By Paul Kiel - May 2, 2007, 4:21 PM
How deep, how wide did the politicization at the Justice Department go?
From the AP:
The Justice Department is investigating whether its former White House liaison used political affiliation in deciding who to hire as entry-level prosecutors in U.S. attorneys' offices around the country, The Associated Press has learned.
Doing so is a violation of federal law.
[poster's note: Goodling will be the first in DOJ scandal to get 'Scootered']
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003137.php
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Richard Viguerie on Alberto Gonzales
As the man who pioneered political direct mail, [Richard} Viguerie has been called “the Funding Father” of the conservative movement. He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause
Richard Viguerie says: "“If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continues to refuse to resign, it’s time for Congress to impeach him—and Republicans must take the lead,” says conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie."
Why:
“And the Republicans in Congress must take that next step,” Viguerie adds. “President Bush already is a lame duck with the lowest public support since Richard Nixon, so in a sense he has nothing more to lose. What should scare Republicans, however, is that once again Bush seems willing to bring the entire Republican Party to destruction with him. The Republicans have already lost the House and the Senate. If they want to have any chance of retaining the White House or making gains in Congress in 2008, they must break decisively with this politically suicidal president.”
Because:
Viguerie specifically warned Republicans: “Don’t expect much cooperation from Democrats in your call for the impeachment of Gonzales. He serves a useful purpose for them politically, and they don’t want him out of office no matter how much they complain publicly. They want him to remain as Attorney General as a shining example of Republican incompetence and corruption, so they can use him as a campaign issues that keeps on giving to the Democrats. No, it is the Republicans who need to have Gonzales removed,.."
Ah shades of "Full confidence Rumsfield" and "Good job Brownie"
http://tinyurl.com/33ppme
Richard Viguerie says: "“If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continues to refuse to resign, it’s time for Congress to impeach him—and Republicans must take the lead,” says conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie."
Why:
“And the Republicans in Congress must take that next step,” Viguerie adds. “President Bush already is a lame duck with the lowest public support since Richard Nixon, so in a sense he has nothing more to lose. What should scare Republicans, however, is that once again Bush seems willing to bring the entire Republican Party to destruction with him. The Republicans have already lost the House and the Senate. If they want to have any chance of retaining the White House or making gains in Congress in 2008, they must break decisively with this politically suicidal president.”
Because:
Viguerie specifically warned Republicans: “Don’t expect much cooperation from Democrats in your call for the impeachment of Gonzales. He serves a useful purpose for them politically, and they don’t want him out of office no matter how much they complain publicly. They want him to remain as Attorney General as a shining example of Republican incompetence and corruption, so they can use him as a campaign issues that keeps on giving to the Democrats. No, it is the Republicans who need to have Gonzales removed,.."
Ah shades of "Full confidence Rumsfield" and "Good job Brownie"
http://tinyurl.com/33ppme
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Viguerie better start calling on the Rs to impeach Bush and Cheney for the same reason. If the Rs call for it, the Dems will impeach - and turn the country around, move on bringing our kids home, global warming/domestic security, etc. (As in, I think it's too late for the Rs to get control back in the 2008 elections, but we could sure use them acting like they thought they could.)
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Senate Wants to Hear from Schlozman
(More meat for the Bar-b-Que.)
Today Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and ranking member Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrote Bradley Schlozman, asking that he cooperate with the committee's investigation into U.S. attorney firings
There are a number of reasons why congressional investigators would want to talk to Schlozman: his politicization of the hiring process when he was the deputy head of the Civil Rights Division, his efforts to squash career attorneys in the division who disagreed with him, and his rush to bring a group of voter fraud indictments just before the election when he was the U.S. Attorney for Kansas City.
(shades of Ark's on Rovian operative Timothy Griffin, who is now USA in Eastern Ark...he recently filed a little PR charge against a woman in Little Rock for writing a letter to black residents around Lake Maumelle area. His charges come under the banner of Civil Rights, so he's setting up a pattern to help accomplish two things: cover up his sorry record in Fla and preparing the state for additional Civil Rights charges via voter fraud in 08 elections)
read the Senate committe's letter here:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003167.php
(More meat for the Bar-b-Que.)
Today Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and ranking member Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrote Bradley Schlozman, asking that he cooperate with the committee's investigation into U.S. attorney firings
There are a number of reasons why congressional investigators would want to talk to Schlozman: his politicization of the hiring process when he was the deputy head of the Civil Rights Division, his efforts to squash career attorneys in the division who disagreed with him, and his rush to bring a group of voter fraud indictments just before the election when he was the U.S. Attorney for Kansas City.
(shades of Ark's on Rovian operative Timothy Griffin, who is now USA in Eastern Ark...he recently filed a little PR charge against a woman in Little Rock for writing a letter to black residents around Lake Maumelle area. His charges come under the banner of Civil Rights, so he's setting up a pattern to help accomplish two things: cover up his sorry record in Fla and preparing the state for additional Civil Rights charges via voter fraud in 08 elections)
read the Senate committe's letter here:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003167.php
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Robert F Kennedy--Timothy Griffin, US attorney in Arkansas, Should be in Jail
NEW YORK -- Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin's former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush.
"Timothy Griffin," said Kennedy,"who is the new US attorney in Arkansas, was actually the mastermind behind the voter fraud efforts by the Bush Administration to disenfranchise over a million voters through 'caging' techniques - which are illegal.
Kennedy based his demand on the revelations by BBC reporter Greg Palast in the new edition of his book, "Armed Madhouse." On one page of the book, Palast reproduces a copy of a confidential Bush-Cheney campaign email, dated August 26, 2004, in which Griffin directs Republican operatives to use the 'caging' lists.
The Republicans successfully challenged "at least one million" votes of minority voters in the 2004 election.
Kennedy, a voting rights attorney, fumed, "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail. Instead [Griffin] was rewarded with the US Attorney's office."
"They [Griffin, Rove and their confederates at the RNC] knew it was illegal."
http://www.freepress.org/departments/di ... /2007/2581
NEW YORK -- Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin's former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush.
"Timothy Griffin," said Kennedy,"who is the new US attorney in Arkansas, was actually the mastermind behind the voter fraud efforts by the Bush Administration to disenfranchise over a million voters through 'caging' techniques - which are illegal.
Kennedy based his demand on the revelations by BBC reporter Greg Palast in the new edition of his book, "Armed Madhouse." On one page of the book, Palast reproduces a copy of a confidential Bush-Cheney campaign email, dated August 26, 2004, in which Griffin directs Republican operatives to use the 'caging' lists.
The Republicans successfully challenged "at least one million" votes of minority voters in the 2004 election.
Kennedy, a voting rights attorney, fumed, "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail. Instead [Griffin] was rewarded with the US Attorney's office."
"They [Griffin, Rove and their confederates at the RNC] knew it was illegal."
http://www.freepress.org/departments/di ... /2007/2581
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Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
The prestigious National Journal joins Attorneygate scandal with some revealing inside news:
Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove's, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. ..
Several of the e-mails that the Bush administration is withholding from Congress, as well as papers from the White House counsel's office describing other withheld documents, were made available to National Journal by a senior executive branch official, who said that the administration has inappropriately kept many of them from Congress.
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/070510nj1.htm
The prestigious National Journal joins Attorneygate scandal with some revealing inside news:
Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove's, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. ..
Several of the e-mails that the Bush administration is withholding from Congress, as well as papers from the White House counsel's office describing other withheld documents, were made available to National Journal by a senior executive branch official, who said that the administration has inappropriately kept many of them from Congress.
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/070510nj1.htm
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ANOTHER DEPT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEY QUITS
NUMBER 2 AT DEPT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEY QUITS.
Who said watching the rats jump ship can't be fun !
WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, becoming the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys. ............
McNulty has been considering leaving for months, and aides said he never intended to serve more than two years as deputy attorney general. But his ultimate decision to step down, the aides said, was hastened by anger at being linked to the prosecutors' purge that Congress is investigating to determine if eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons. .......
McNulty also irked Gonzales by testifying in February that at least one of the fired prosecutors was ordered to make way for a protege of Karl Rove,
President Bush's chief political adviser. Gonzales, who has resisted lawmakers' calls to resign, maintains the firings were proper, and rooted in the prosecutors' lackluster performances. ...............
McNulty's resignation is expected to be the start of significant turnover at the department, particularly within the office he heads. .......
McNulty was in charge of overseeing the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys and attended numerous meetings about the firings — both at the Justice Department and the White House, including at least one that Rove attended.
On Feb. 6, McNulty told a Senate panel that at least one of the ousted prosecutors was asked to leave without cause — Bud Cummins in Little Rock, Ark., who was told to resign so that Tim Griffin, a former aide to Rove and the
Republican National Committee, could take his place.
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McNulty also told Congress that the decision to fire the eight U.S. attorneys in December was made solely by the Justice Department. He was furious, aides said, after learning later that Sampson had discussed the potential firings with the White House since at least January 2005.
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McNulty is a longtime GOP loyalist who was spokesman for
House Judiciary Committee Republicans during the impeachment of
President Clinton and later directed the transition team for the new Bush administration's Justice Department.
Who said watching the rats jump ship can't be fun !
WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, becoming the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys. ............
McNulty has been considering leaving for months, and aides said he never intended to serve more than two years as deputy attorney general. But his ultimate decision to step down, the aides said, was hastened by anger at being linked to the prosecutors' purge that Congress is investigating to determine if eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons. .......
McNulty also irked Gonzales by testifying in February that at least one of the fired prosecutors was ordered to make way for a protege of Karl Rove,
President Bush's chief political adviser. Gonzales, who has resisted lawmakers' calls to resign, maintains the firings were proper, and rooted in the prosecutors' lackluster performances. ...............
McNulty's resignation is expected to be the start of significant turnover at the department, particularly within the office he heads. .......
McNulty was in charge of overseeing the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys and attended numerous meetings about the firings — both at the Justice Department and the White House, including at least one that Rove attended.
On Feb. 6, McNulty told a Senate panel that at least one of the ousted prosecutors was asked to leave without cause — Bud Cummins in Little Rock, Ark., who was told to resign so that Tim Griffin, a former aide to Rove and the
Republican National Committee, could take his place.
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McNulty also told Congress that the decision to fire the eight U.S. attorneys in December was made solely by the Justice Department. He was furious, aides said, after learning later that Sampson had discussed the potential firings with the White House since at least January 2005.
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McNulty is a longtime GOP loyalist who was spokesman for
House Judiciary Committee Republicans during the impeachment of
President Clinton and later directed the transition team for the new Bush administration's Justice Department.