Posted on 08/11/2009 6:41:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Thousands of pages of internal e-mail and once-secret Congressional testimony showed Tuesday that Karl Rove and other senior aides in the Bush White House played an earlier and more active role than was previously known in the 2006 firings of a number of United States attorneys.
Aides to former President George W. Bush have asserted that the Justice Department took the lead in the dismissals, which set off a political firestorm that lasted months. Mr. Rove played down his role in the firings in a recent interview and in closed testimony last month before Congressional investigators.
But the documents, released by the House Judiciary Committee after a protracted fight over access to White House records and testimony, offer a detailed portrait of a nearly two-year effort, from early 2005 to 2007, by senior White House officials, including Mr. Rove, to dismiss some prosecutors for what appear to be political reasons.
Internal e-mail messages in the spring of 2005 at the White House showed that there was widespread unhappiness with David Iglesias, the United States attorney in New Mexico, because of the perception among top Republicans that he was dragging his feet on voter fraud and corruption investigations involving Democrats.
In a June 2005 message, Scott Jennings, a top political aide to Mr. Rove, wrote a colleague that Mr. Iglesias should be removed because Republicans in New Mexico “are really angry over his lack of action on voter fraud stuff.”
“Iglesias has done nothing,” it continued. “We are getting killed out there.”
Mr. Iglesias was ultimately let go in December 2006, along with seven other federal prosecutors in an unusual dismissal of top presidential appointees. Mr. Iglesias had received positive evaluations from the Justice Department in Washington for his performance and his “exemplary leadership.”
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...I’m glad the Bush administration fired those lefty obstructionists.
and, please remind me again, WHY WE CARE!!!!!
the world in the past 7 1/2 months has gone to hell in a handbasket and we want to do that???? Every president has cleaned house when they came in....obamanation is no exception......
Rove says not true. But even if it were - so what? President Bush had advisors and it was his right to fire the attorneys. obama wants to fire up more hatred for the Bush administration.
Heres what i don’t get. They are political appointees with no job protection. Couldn’t a president say, i dont like the politics of these 8 guys and fire them? CLinton fired all of em just to replace them with his own. And couldn’t he have then frired any of those he had just hired?
The New York Times shoots that dead horse just one more time.
Do we know why Billy Bob Clinton fired all 93 USATTYs, en masse? Should we? They served at the pleasure and discretion of the President, until Dubya crassly won election, then re-election, thereby earning the undying animus of every left-thinking American Pol, causing his every breath to be a criminal act. Ergo, firing a half-dozen attorneys had to have been an act of pure perfidy.
So?? They (the prosecuters) are political appointees and serve at the pleasure of the president. Look at zeros czars.
On the radio news, they said what Karl Rove did was not illegal.
Non story.
Is this the best they can do to take the focus off the Obama health care FIASCO????
they needed firing
Sulzberger is a homosexual communist and his newspaper will be bankrupt and closed within 5 years.
The Clintonistas fired all 93 of their DOJ attorneys...
“As everyone once knew but has tried to forget, Mr. Hubbell was a
former partner of Mrs. Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock
who later went to jail for mail fraud and tax evasion. He was also
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s choice as Associate Attorney General in
the Justice Department when Janet Reno, his nominal superior,
simultaneously fired all 93 U.S. Attorneys in March 1993. Ms. Reno—
or Mr. Hubbell—gave them 10 days to move out of their offices.”
Wall Street Journal:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009784
Hey NYSlimes— Gerald Walpin ring a bell?
He didn’t get rid of enough of them. He even appointed some, just like a nice guy would. Look where it got him. No corporation whatsoever.
Maybe the next president will show some guts get rid of every
damn one of 0’s cronies/paybacks he put in some position.
It’s time has come for a Conservative president to push back harder then ever
and show no mercy, after this attempted coup.
Sorry Eric. This is old news. We’ve moved on to communism and how to stop it. You gotta try to keep up with the program bubba. Keep draggin’ your feet like this and Barry will be sending his “end of life” counselors over to your office.
While we’re discussing this important topic, I think we should discuss the role the current Secretary of State played in firing the totally non-political travel office employees for no reason whatsoever (except, of course, to help out her friends). As I distinctly recall, she denied having anything to do with it, even though contemporaneous documents showed that it was her idea. I am sure the Times will be dredging this one up, too.
And this is news. Why?
SO WHAT!
Keep your eye on the ball here folks...Obambi administration going to keep dredging this crap up...keep eye ball.Healthscare...gulp.
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