Posted by Andrew Zajac at 4:32 p.m. CDT
The Justice Department has dumped another couple thousand pages of records on congressional investigators in the U.S. attorneys firing scandal. Documents are available on the House Judiciary Committee website.
Among the revelations:
-- Former Justice Department chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson had replacements in mind for some of the fired prosecutors as early as January_2006, which is at odds with his Senate testimony last month that the dismissals were a kind of managerial housecleaning made without specific substitutes at the ready.
-- Sampson told the White House in an April 2006 e-mail that "if you push me, I'd have 3-5 additional names the that White House might want to consider" for dismissal, lending credence to the argument that the firings were driven less by Justice Department policy and management concerns than by Bush administration political imperatives.
-- In addition to political and legal experience, the Justice Department tracked which U.S. Attorneys belonged to the Federalist Society, the conservative lawyers association. Membership in the society is a common resume line item among some of the younger, more ideologically driven Justice Department operatives.
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Que la deseamos?
Acusacion!
Cuando la deseamos?
Ahora!
Posted by: Nacho Libre | April 13, 2007 4:35 PM
Call him back and make him testify again.
Beat that little liar down until he begs for mercy.
Then beat him down some more.
Posted by: Ron | April 13, 2007 4:50 PM
Another administration official caught lying? I'm shocked. He should have asked for 5th amendment protection since that seems to be the only way that our Justice Department officials can avoid perjury.
So when does Gonzales testify? That should be fun!
Posted by: Tom O | April 13, 2007 6:16 PM
What a great pleasure to read the daily dung drops on this administration. This can go on for weeks with daily exposure of the attempts to politicize The D.O.J. Political pressure on the Attorneys destroys public confidence in the law. As more instances are discovered, the worse Bush and his personal Attorney General are going to look. This will gain a little more public recognition daily and soon reach the status of "common knowledge". That delights me.
Posted by: c. perry | April 13, 2007 6:20 PM
The Administration's self-righteous, holier than thou crowd wouldn't know the truth if someone walked up and slapped them with it.
Posted by: Doug Zook | April 13, 2007 7:13 PM
C'mon, have some faith Doug. If they get slapped with it often enough they just might start to recognize it for what it is.
Posted by: Tom O | April 13, 2007 8:46 PM
If I remember correctly, Gonzales is to testify the 17th, the day taxes are due. hope his are done!
Posted by: lochnessmonster | April 14, 2007 5:50 AM
Tom O,
I concede you have a point.
However, to be effective, I insist that the slapping be to the point that Dubya & Darth would look like a version of Daffy Duck with his bill knocked right around to the back of his head ala one perpetrated by Elmer Fudd on the opening day of duck (or is it wabbit?) season?
Posted by: Doug Zook | April 14, 2007 7:51 AM
Sadly, this, too, will wisp into the winds. Nobody outside of the beltway cares.
People get "unjustly" fired every day. If it happens to a few lawyers, most people just say, "Good. I wasn't wrong to avoid law school, after all."
Posted by: Bud McFarlin | April 14, 2007 8:16 AM
Doug, I can go along with that...and I think the cartoon characters fit Elmer Cheney and Daffy Bush pretty well.
Posted by: Tom O | April 14, 2007 9:54 AM
Tom O,
I don't know how we stumbled into this most apt analogy, but let it be said it began here.
Posted by: Doug Zook | April 14, 2007 10:27 AM