Posted on 03/13/2007 7:52:44 AM PDT by tobyhill
The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year, according to e-mails and internal documents that the administration will provide to Congress today.
The dismissals took place after President Bush told Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that he had received complaints that some prosecutors had not energetically pursued voter-fraud investigations, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
Gonzales approved the idea of firing a smaller group of U.S. attorneys shortly after taking office in February 2005. The Gonzales aide in charge of the dismissals — his chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson — resigned yesterday, officials said, after acknowledging that he did not tell Justice officials about the extent of his communications with the White House, leading them to provide incomplete information to Congress.
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Strange... not a word of Clinton firing all 93 US Attorneys in 1993... /sarcasm
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OMG!! Does this mean, gasp...that hirings have their genesis in the White House also??
Why is not one Republican elected offical calling a press conference to remind 'the journalist' that Slick fired EVERY ONE OF THE US Attorneys in 1993!
Bush should have fired Patrick Fitzgerald......
hey in a slightly different vein did you hear about the 2 gay irishmen???
Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick......
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Of course, no mention of the fact that the Clinton administration actually did fire the whole lot shortly after WJC took office.
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I guess I would be doing some firing if a U.S. Attorney was not energetically pursuing complaints of voter-fraud. That is supposed to be a serious crime.
Chris Wallace mentioned it at the end of his Sunday show on FNC.
But only because someone had e-mailed him with the info. Wallace said he hadn't mentioned it before because he hadn't known about it.
Sigh.
Of course it's political and that's why they serve at the pleasure of the President.
The dismissals took place after President Bush told Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that he had received complaints that some prosecutors had not energetically pursued voter-fraud investigations, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
Back in '93, a perfectly good Republican US Attorney was sacked and replaced with an alcoholic Democrat party hack. His wife finally gave up on him as uncurable. He was good enought for Hillary however. He would lick her feet in an alcoholic stupor and never know he had been had.
Back in '93, a perfectly good Republican US Attorney was sacked and replaced with an alcoholic Democrat party hack. His wife finally gave up on him as uncurable. He was good enought for Hillary however. He would lick her feet in an alcoholic stupor and never know he had been had.
This is a nothing story. How does thinking of firing all 92, two years ago, equate to firing 8 now? Hardly the same thing.
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