Erick Erickson had a post at Red State over the weekend that provides some interesting insight into what's going on regarding the US attorney firings and AG Alberto Gonzales.
Let's be clear, no one is excited about Alberto Gonzales, but even a cursory reading of Jan Crawford Greenburg's book Supreme Conflict shows AGAG to not only be conservative, but also one of the people who kept, or at least tried to keep, the President from doing all sorts of dumb things -- including advising against the appointment of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
Paul McNulty, on the other hand, wants to be Attorney General. I've been told by several highly reliable people that it is McNulty's office that is now leaking like a sieve everything they can find to cast the blame at the White House and Alberto Gonzales. It is McNulty who smeared the reputations of the eight fired U.S. Attorneys. It is McNulty who most likely added Kevin Ryan, a very popular and very competent U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, to the list of the fired. And McNulty is being aided an abetted by several career Democrats at Justice who President Bush should have fired when he came into office.Let me put this bluntly: there is a coup going on at the Department of Justice. It has been fostered by career Democrats the President should have fired, but did not. It has now picked up momentum by a less than competent Deputy AG who has decided he can shove out his boss in a series of leaks and take his boss's job.
Erick posts today that the Washington Prowler is hearing the same thing:
The White House continues to struggle with the ongoing controversy over the Department of Justice's decision to push out eight U.S. Attorneys last December, in part because of leaks that continue over at the Department of Justice.
"Judge [Alberto] Gonzales is not being well served by people in senior positions over there, who perhaps see an opportunity to push him out the door to create opportunities for others," says a White House source.When asked to be specific, the source declined, but others inside the White House and the DOJ suspect that the staff of Deputy Attorney General McNulty has been the most active, anti-Gonzales leakers in the past week.
"McNulty's crew has been pretty confident that they aren't going to get taken down in this whole mess. They have been acting downright cocky with me," says a reporter who works out of the Justice Department.
The White House has complained to the Justice Department about the release of documents and e-mails it has not seen or been made aware of. "Reporters are asking about things we've never seen," says another White House source. "It's just drip, drip, drip, and it's clearly an organized leaking effort."
Sources familiar with the staff of the Deputy Attorney General say its members believe he is in line to replace Gonzales as Attorney General at least on an interim basis, but that McNulty wants the job permanently.
"What's interesting is that when you look at the e-mail traffic from [former Gonzales chief of staff] Kyle Sampson on the plans to remove some U.S. Attorneys, McNulty is cc'd on a few of them. He clearly knew what was going on," says a Republican Senate Judiciary staffer. "We wonder why the media is giving him a break."
If AG Gonzales resigns, it's one more dent in the Bush Administration's armor, so of course the liberal media will encourage his resignation. Giving McNulty a pass just helps their cause.



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McNulty? Who he?===... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kim | March 19, 2007 6:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
McNulty? Who he?
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1. Posted by kim | March 19, 2007 6:26 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:26
2. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 19, 2007 6:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I assume this information is available to the White House and appropriate action can be taken. It is never too late for fire sales.
2. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 19, 2007 6:27 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:27
3. Posted by kim | March 19, 2007 6:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I jest of course. McNulty is one of the evil cabal with McCarthy and Comey. He has overplayed his hand, and will be gone.
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3. Posted by kim | March 19, 2007 6:30 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:30
4. Posted by kim | March 19, 2007 6:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You notice Barney had Sampson emails in his condemnation of Gonzales in previous threads. Yet another hit job, maybe foiled this time.
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4. Posted by kim | March 19, 2007 6:37 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:37
5. Posted by bryanD | March 19, 2007 6:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kudos, Kim! Nice to see that the dirty laundry isn't being stuffed back into the dresser drawers. Via the Prowler/Spectator link page, there is obviosly a simmering factional neocon battle for the true believers' hearts and...hearts. The establishments' attempt to foist the cypher, Libby apologist and toughguy imitator Fred Thompson on supposedly pliable PJ Media's Approved Republican Candidates poll is GOOD STUFF!
5. Posted by bryanD | March 19, 2007 6:38 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:38
6. Posted by Hugh | March 19, 2007 6:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh what a shock. A (wing)nut favorite. Don't hold the man in charge responsible for anything gone wrong. Just shoot/smear the messenger(s). You (wing)nuts are so predictable and so lacking in intellectual honesty.
6. Posted by Hugh | March 19, 2007 6:42 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:42
7. Posted by bryanD | March 19, 2007 6:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
And more OT: it's obvious that the executives have been fancying themselves as everything their hand-picked yes-men pronounced them to be. What a fool believes! Apparently the eunuchs are now putting away pretense . Fortunately for W, he can remain in his golden cage. And instead of a bowstring, there's a dude ranch and a corporate board in his future.
7. Posted by bryanD | March 19, 2007 6:50 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:50
8. Posted by Larkin | March 19, 2007 6:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
From the American Spectator link that Kim published:
Meanwhile, The American Spectator has learned that members of McNulty's staff are supporting the possible nomination to one of the vacant U.S. Attorney slots of a former government lawyer who had an affair with a colleague and now resides with not one, but two women in what some in the DAG's office have termed a "tri-sexual" relationship. "That residential situation would be adjusted if the name was put forward," says someone familiar with the thinking in McNulty's office.
It's good to see that we've got some "family values" Republicans on tap to fill the vacant US attorney slots!
8. Posted by Larkin | March 19, 2007 6:51 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 18:51
9. Posted by Lee | March 19, 2007 7:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
From the linked article:
Cite some unnamed sources then spin, spin, spin -- it's just more of the typical spin from the Republican lie machine. No proof, no emails, no interviews, nothing... HE HAS NOTHING!
Meanwhile there are smoking guns all over the White House lawn..
It's no surprise conservatives fall for this crap - you guys were dumb enough to vote for these clowns twice - and you lap up this kind of spin because the reality you face when you look yourself in the mirror and realize the mistakes you've made just hurts too much.
Blah, Blah, Blah, Bullshit!
9. Posted by Lee | March 19, 2007 7:10 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 19:10
10. Posted by Publicus | March 19, 2007 7:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ummm..."career Democrats" in the Justice Department can't fire Gonzales. The AG, we are constantly reminded, "serves at the pleasure of the President."
I also note that, if WE know about what's (allegedly) going on in the Justice Department, the President certainly must know about it...and more. If he doesn't want to do what "career Democrats" in the Justice Department want him to do, he won't...
10. Posted by Publicus | March 19, 2007 7:11 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 19:11
11. Posted by BarneyG2000 | March 19, 2007 7:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So who is Daddy going to send over to pull sonny boys ass out of the fire this time?
11. Posted by BarneyG2000 | March 19, 2007 7:26 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 19:26
12. Posted by Publicus | March 19, 2007 7:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
First, McNulty is a Republican who was nominated for his position by George W. Bush. Secondly, if he's implicated in all the hoopla over the firing of the U.S. attorneys, don't you think he's an unlikely choice for any Gonzales successor?
12. Posted by Publicus | March 19, 2007 7:37 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 19:37
13. Posted by John S | March 19, 2007 7:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sounds like about 50 top officials need to be fired at DoJ. Then we can put Ann Coulter in charge.
13. Posted by John S | March 19, 2007 7:42 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 19:42
14. Posted by BarneyG2000 | March 19, 2007 7:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hey is Dick Thornburgh still alive?
14. Posted by BarneyG2000 | March 19, 2007 7:49 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 19:49
15. Posted by mantis | March 19, 2007 8:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've been told by several highly reliable people that Gonzales is being taken down by a Cuban/CIA/Mafia/Commie/Hippy/Secularist/Dhimmi/Surrender-Monkey/Moonbat conspiracy to get Cindy Sheehan placed as the next Attorney General.
Hmmm, wait, who is this McNulty Fella?
Before becoming U.S. Attorney, Mr. McNulty directed President Bush's transition team for the Department of Justice and then served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. In the prior Bush Administration, Mr. McNulty was the Justice Department's director of policy and its chief spokesman.
Mr. McNulty has over 12 years of experience in the United States Congress. He was Chief Counsel and Director of Legislative Operations for the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Obviously in league with the Democrats.
15. Posted by mantis | March 19, 2007 8:11 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 20:11
16. Posted by BarneyG2000 | March 19, 2007 8:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
From Politico:
Among the names floated Monday by administration officials are Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and White House anti-terrorism coordinator Frances Townsend. Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is a White House prospect. So is former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, but sources were unsure whether he would want the job.
16. Posted by BarneyG2000 | March 19, 2007 8:19 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 20:19
17. Posted by Mitchell | March 19, 2007 8:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
McNulty ain't going anywhere.
You don't get to AG by knee-capping the President's friend and AG.
McNulty's the one who lied to Congress, most likely. He's gone, for sure. Probably along with Al.
17. Posted by Mitchell | March 19, 2007 8:38 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 20:38
18. Posted by fea nicks | March 19, 2007 8:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How laughable. Ole Kim is out w/ the spin.
This corrupt little P.O.S. Gonzales is of the same league as his benefactor, the Chimp-in-chief. None of the principlals in this Bush regime is even fit to shovel shit in an elephant parade.
Bwahahahahahahaha!
18. Posted by fea nicks | March 19, 2007 8:41 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 20:41
19. Posted by Actual | March 19, 2007 8:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I liked the old way better. One trip to Ft. Marcy Park. Problem solved.
19. Posted by Actual | March 19, 2007 8:42 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 20:42
20. Posted by Allen | March 19, 2007 8:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Damn, smell the blood in the water, the sharks are gathering, and by GOD, it's Clinton's fault, so there it is. End of story.
Sounds like the poor Demo's are picking on the Repug's, especially at the time they the repug's are eating their own.
Looks like the oversight committees are getting people worried, and if the oversight committees were/had been doing their job for the last 6 years, this BS would not be happening now.
20. Posted by Allen | March 19, 2007 8:58 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 20:58
21. Posted by Brian | March 19, 2007 9:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The White House has complained to the Justice Department about the release of documents and e-mails it has not seen or been made aware of. "Reporters are asking about things we've never seen," says another White House source. "It's just drip, drip, drip, and it's clearly an organized leaking effort."
Umm, isn't the White House against leakers? Don't they prosecute them? Don't they start investigations to root them out? Aren't leakers traitors who deserve to be hanged? Why hasn't Bush called for an official investigation? Where are the outraged Republicans when you need them? Or is leaking now OK... again?
21. Posted by Brian | March 19, 2007 9:08 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 21:08
22. Posted by bryanD | March 19, 2007 9:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actual: Funny! And under the "Patriot" Act the Fort Marcy Park Experience can be had by so many more! As foolish as Bush is, Hillary would be a Terror with the expanded executive scope of action the neo-trolls imagined they'd have all to themselves! O, fickle finger of Fate!
22. Posted by bryanD | March 19, 2007 9:14 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 21:14
23. Posted by marc | March 19, 2007 9:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's good to see that we've got some "family values" Republicans on tap to fill the vacant US attorney slots!Posted by: Larkin
If, a big if at this point, McNulty is really behind a palace coop at DoJ wouldn't that be the family values of a political turncoat looking to "steal" someone else's job and not living by what is generally regarded as "family values?"
In other words Larkin your comment is mostly meaningless and just a cheap shot.
23. Posted by marc | March 19, 2007 9:14 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 21:14
24. Posted by Mike | March 19, 2007 9:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
marc,
In other words Larkin your comment is mostly meaningless and just a cheap shot.
Posted by: marc at March 19, 2007 09:14 PM
Cheap shot? The Republican Party is the party of Family Values, Newt said so. So some guy is servicing two women, wow, lucky SOB. The repug's should be giving him a medal for doing that, right?
But Clinton gets a BJ, and you repug's are jealous that you didn't. So quit crying about cheap shots, stand up for the man, and if you know him, ask him how he's doing it. Must be close to Rush, vigara, drugs, little boys in the Dominion Republic, shit, lets find out how he's doing it, not that he's doing it.
When you find out, please post it for all the males that read the comments on this post, OK?
24. Posted by Mike | March 19, 2007 9:23 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 21:23
25. Posted by Allen | March 19, 2007 9:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Brian,
The man in charge of White House Security has stated, under oath, in front of a oversight committee, his office has never done any investigation of any leaks. And you want them to change their ways?
Man, I need some of the prescription drugs you're on if you think they will do any investigation, and leaks have always been ok, if it helps Karl's way of deflecting any blame to him or the President. But first and foremost, never forget that this is Clinton's fault.
25. Posted by Allen | March 19, 2007 9:36 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 21:36
26. Posted by Steve of Norway | March 19, 2007 10:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Damn, the cockroaches are out in full force tonight...what's the matter, you guys get closed out on some other libtard tree house so you come and infest this place now?
26. Posted by Steve of Norway | March 19, 2007 10:10 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 22:10
27. Posted by ChrisO | March 19, 2007 10:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Steve, excellent reposne. Your in depth response to the points raised was absolutely breathtaking.
27. Posted by ChrisO | March 19, 2007 10:21 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 22:21
28. Posted by marc | March 19, 2007 10:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
When you find out, please post it for all the males that read the comments on this post, OK?
Posted by: Mike at March 19, 2007 09:23 PM
ZOOOOOM.... better check the top of your head to ensure my post skimming over your comprehension level didn't leave tracks on your skull.
And when completed with that please point out where in that post I condoned any of the behavior associated with the story.
28. Posted by marc | March 19, 2007 10:24 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 22:24
29. Posted by Steve of Norway | March 19, 2007 10:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well Chris, it's hard to argue with such irrational bugs like yourself. Every single of you find some new spectacular way to detach yourself from reality and stick your fingers in your ears.
29. Posted by Steve of Norway | March 19, 2007 10:29 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 22:29
30. Posted by marc | March 19, 2007 10:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Allan:
The man in charge of White House Security has stated, under oath, in front of a oversight committee, his office has never done any investigation of any leaks. And you want them to change their ways?
You have been riding that dead horse til the sweat pools under it resemble Gore's raising tides.
But as long as you're "in that saddle" prechance you can explain the political and financial sense in Bush duplicating an ongoing SP (ending in Fitzmas for you and others) investigation that ran up bill in the millions.
30. Posted by marc | March 19, 2007 10:30 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 22:30
31. Posted by nogo postal | March 19, 2007 10:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
hmmm..Kim you quote a place called "Red State"? Ya know before the Soviet Union Collapsed they were a RED State..why are you a communist?...I reject your
your source..America..Love it or go back to Moscow...
31. Posted by nogo postal | March 19, 2007 10:58 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 22:58
32. Posted by epador | March 19, 2007 11:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It just struck me that nogo and Lee remind oh so much of Lord of the Flies. Jack and Roger to be exact.
32. Posted by epador | March 19, 2007 11:17 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 23:17
33. Posted by Brian | March 19, 2007 11:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, so far Steve has called the opposition "cockroaches" and "bugs", but has not yet expressed one cogent thought. Steve, are you trying out for the jhow66 stand-in job?
33. Posted by Brian | March 19, 2007 11:36 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 23:36
34. Posted by Allen | March 19, 2007 11:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Marc said,
You have been riding that dead horse til the sweat pools under it resemble Gore's raising tides.
Whats wrong Marc, I'm just doing what you do with the dead horse about Clinton. Can't handle it, huh? And how many millions did the Repug's spend on the investigation of Clinton? Hell of lot more than Fitz spent, but you forgot that part, huh?
34. Posted by Allen | March 19, 2007 11:51 PM |
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Posted on March 19, 2007 23:51
35. Posted by Just Saying | March 20, 2007 1:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Let's see, investigate crimes against Democrats that don't exist and obstruct investigations against corrupt Republican cronies...nothing to see here folks.
You Bushies crack me up.
PS
I use the term "Bushies", because you guys ceased to be conservatives a long time ago.
35. Posted by Just Saying | March 20, 2007 1:20 AM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 01:20
36. Posted by marc | March 20, 2007 3:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Allen:
Whats wrong Marc, I'm just doing what you do with the dead horse about Clinton. Can't handle it, huh? And how many millions did the Repug's spend on the investigation of Clinton? Hell of lot more than Fitz spent, but you forgot that part, huh?
Posted by: Allen at March 19, 2007 11:51 PM
I couldn't tell you how much it cost, but I bet you can.
How many "Clinton dead horses" have I beaten Allen, got a number?
And I still await a cognizant answer why it would make anything close to common sense to waste time and money on a duplicate investigation.
36. Posted by marc | March 20, 2007 3:50 AM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 03:50
37. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 6:49 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
They're just pissed 'cuz McNulty overplayed his hand and showed whose team he is on.
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37. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 6:49 AM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 06:49
38. Posted by WildWillie | March 20, 2007 8:30 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Have you noticed how the dimmers or lefties have no persuasive arguing skills? Their comments are like they were written by a 12 year old. Full of invective and no substance. Pathetic. ww
38. Posted by WildWillie | March 20, 2007 8:30 AM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 08:30
39. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 8:42 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Besides the general decay of rhetoric in our institutions of higher learning at least possibly due to the degenerate power structures of academia, I've really come to suspect that the perverting power of Soros's money is beginning to tell. I'm constantly running into leftists who will push an agenda or an argument past all reason, sometimes even being cynical about it.
Soros's Apprentices. Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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39. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 8:42 AM |
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40. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 8:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That cynicism. That's got to be tough on morale. That stuff ages interestingly.
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40. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 8:45 AM |
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41. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 8:47 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's sort of liking aborting the truth so you don't have to rear its ugly head.
Ooh, I like that one.
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41. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 8:47 AM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 08:47
42. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 9:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
See AJ's Strata-Sphere about McNulty.
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42. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 9:45 AM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 09:45
43. Posted by Gerry | March 20, 2007 12:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have a question, what does Justice have to do with politics? Should we look at the the idea that US attorneys should be non political? I think that maybe we should bring back Ken Starr to look in to this
43. Posted by Gerry | March 20, 2007 12:17 PM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 12:17
44. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 12:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gerry, it is necessary for an executive to have policy control over his prosecutors in order to carry out his sworn duty to enforce the laws. The judicial branch, the Supreme and federal judiciary should be independent of political influence, but not the Department of Justice. Why else go to the polls?
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44. Posted by kim | March 20, 2007 12:48 PM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 12:48
45. Posted by Gerry | March 20, 2007 1:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kim,
It seems that it is open to selective prosicution and buckling under the boss if they want to keep their jobs. And I question if the courts are not politically influenced, they are appointed after all. I think that MOST want to do what is right and should not have to worry about if it makes anyone other than the AG happy. If the facts come out that they where ask to prosecute based on political party they belong to heads should roll from the top down. Most of this country is sick of party politics, justice has no place in politics. Thanks for your responce.
45. Posted by Gerry | March 20, 2007 1:21 PM |
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Posted on March 20, 2007 13:21
46. Posted by kim | March 21, 2007 8:00 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gerry, the judges should be above political influence, but the founding fathers granted political control over prosecution to the executive branch in order to allow it to carry out its sworn duty to enforce the law and to allow the people input to the justice process after the laws are made. It is in fact a liberal argument that the Department of Justice be subject to policy control by the Executive.
See all the liberal arguments against Sen. Sam Ervin's proposal to put the US Attorneys beyond political control.
Also, understand the Constitution. Much of this mishegos is because people are confusing the constitutional role of the Judicial branch with the role of the Department of Justice, a part of the Executive branch. Democrats, shortsightedly, are deliberately confounding this distinction.
Well, maybe they aren't so short-sighted. Maybe those who don't remember that Clinton fired 93 to get rid of 2 are the short-sighted ones.
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46. Posted by kim | March 21, 2007 8:00 AM |
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Posted on March 21, 2007 08:00