Posted on 03/13/2007 11:37:18 AM PDT by smoothsailing
March 13, 2007
Schumer's amnesia
Clarice Feldman
Macsmind notes the utter hypocrisy of Schumer's criticism of Republicans for making inquiries of US Attorneys about ongoing investigations
First to the microphone, Senator (never been to Walter Reed but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it) Schumer is ranting about the firing of US prosecutors, and especially expressing shock about Republican Senators contacting prosecutors to inquire about prosecutions.
You mean like this Chucky?
January 22, 2004
The Honorable James Comey
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Deputy Attorney General Comey:
I write to request an update on the investigation into allegations that senior administration officials committed a federal felony by leaking the identity of a covert CIA operative.
The investigation has been underway for four months now and we have received no meaningful reports regarding the progress you are making. I realize there are limitations on information that can be disclosed regarding an ongoing criminal investigation, but, as we have discussed, a prosecutor has the responsibility to assure public confidence in criminal investigations, especially those of such a serious nature.
In the wake of recent calls by former intelligence operatives for a Congressional investigation, I write to ask that you publicly answer several questions regarding the progress you are making:
Has a grand jury been empaneled in this case? Have members of the White House staff signed waivers, permitting journalists to discuss confidential communications? If so, what percent of the White House staff has signed such waivers? Has anyone who has been asked to sign such a waiver refused to do so?
Have journalists been interviewed as part of the investigation? Has any journalist who has been released from confidentiality (assuming any has), refused to answer questions regarding previously confidential communications?
Were White House staffers ordered as a condition of employment to submit to interviews? Has anyone asked for or been offered immunity? If so, how many individuals fit in each category and what types of immunity have been asked for and offered to each?
What other information can you provide us regarding the progress you are making with this investigation?
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator
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chuck shiester...wasn't he the same clown who voted against protection of CIA operatives when he was a congressman back in the mid-80's???
Schumer has become the Democrats' pitbull, a position he is uniquely suited for by personality and temperament.
Schmukie never fails, does he?
Both the House and Senate reports recognized the possibility that a request for background information or a status report ``may in effect be an indirect or subtle effort to influence the substantive outcome of the proceedings.'' Thus in doubtful cases, agency personnel may treat these requests as ex parte communications ``to protect the integrity of the decision-making process.'' (FOOTNOTE 14) One way to avoid violating the statutory prohibition is to put all communications with agencies in writing and to request that they be made a part of the record, available to all interested parties.
He was the head of the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) one of whose senior staffers was convicted of stealing the identity of Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (Senate candidate). She (actually 2 people did it, but only one got convicted) fraudulently got his social security number and then used it to check his credit reports. He must have been squeeky clean as they couldn't find anything on him.
Did the stupid Republicans hold any hearings on this abuse of power? Of course not. Most people do not even know it happened. The 'rats though are now holding hearings on something they allege Republicans did in Maryland during that same campaign, something about hiring people to pass out allegedly misleading literature. Yikes, their entire campaign is based on misleading!
How 'bout that, barely a MONTH after Fitzfong was appointed the pitbull Chuckie Schroomer thinks it's appropriate to pressure the DOJ to make sure this fraudulent "investigation" is moving along to his liking...... not to mention the added hypocrisy of all the 'Rats who pretend that Clinton/Reno did not fire ALL of the US Attorneys in order to block investigations of Whitewater and corrupt Rep. Rostenkowski without appearing to interfere with those two investigations.
In other words, when the object of this law was CIA turncoat Philip Agee, Mr. Schumer deemed the law more dangerous than the exposure. But now that we have a bona fide newsman at the center of this storm he wants someone to hang.
Or a bonafide member of the Bush Administration.
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Thsi is the same guy wh piad two DSCC staffers to obtain Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit records illegally, then continued to pay them after they were indicted so they would keep quiet and take the fall.
Steele, who is black, was the only candidate whose credit records they sought, BTW. So not only did they commit and suborn a felony, they targeted the black guy in their criminal act. They are felons and racists.
But Upchuck is upset about the President using a legal power he has and using it to get rid of 8 Federal attorneys, not the entire stable of 63 US Attorneys that Klintoon canned just to cover his political firing of one who was looking into Whitewater (and whom he replaced with a former law student and political crony of his.)
Great find.
Chuck is upset about nothing, he is using is political power and the US media to destroy Pres Bush.
He is brilliant and ruthless.
To bad we have no one like him.
I'll probably get flamed here, but I think Schumer was doing his job. It is appropriate to get a status report on an ongoing matter, and his inquiry was in writing and presumably to the proper party. Wouldn't you want your senator do the same if Hillary Clinton were the subject of an investigation? One of the federal prosecutors who was fired said he was called by a congresswoman at his home, and a senator called him while he was staying at a hotel.
Schumer had a conflict-of-interest in the matter from the beginning, since he was one of the key weasels working with Joe Wilson since before Wilson even wrote his op-ed for the NY Times. Far from being some independent overseer of the process, Schumer was one of the charlatans who was working in May and June 2003 to concoct the whole bogus "Bush lied" approach to pre-war intel. Schumer is dishonest scum.
How was he working with Joe Wilson? Do you have a link, I don't know anything about that. Thanks.
You didn't address the fact that at least one of the fired attorneys received phone calls at his home and in a hotel room. Do you think that is appropriate?
re: Schumer and Wilson -- I don't have time to look for the links right now, but there were several instances in 2003 of Schumer pushing the fraudulent Wilson line, and the Wilsons attended the bogus May 3, 2003 session of the "Senate Democratic Policy Committee" that set the whole thing in motion. Then, before there was even the slightest evidence for what Wilson was saying (and in the end there never was, his lies were exposed), Chuckie Schumer was working the press as a partisan hack, trumpeting assertions devoid of credibility or evidentiary basis. So, no, I don't think Schumer had any honest, legitimate basis for keeping pressure on the DOJ over an "investigation" that was bogus from the start and which Schumer himself had helped to fabricate out of thin air.
fwiw, this isn't evidence but I recall that Mark Levin was discussing Schumer's role in pumping up this whole fabricated "investigation" -- unfortunately, even though it has all been totally discredited, the Schumer/Wilson talking points have become the standard history with many/most in the DBM........
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