Posted on 03/14/2007 9:16:10 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear Friend,
Today I called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Join me in calling for him to step down.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/resignnow
Why should Gonzales resign? Because he is at the center of a widening scandal over the firing of several U.S. attorneys -- firings we now know to be political. These attacks on the impartiality of the federal government's prosecutors are a genuine threat to the foundations of our justice system.
It's so bad that one U.S. attorney in Arkansas was fired to make room for a former aide to Karl Rove.
Gonzales's chief of staff has already resigned over the firings, but the attorney general himself is ultimately responsible for what happened. Join me in asking for him to resign now.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/resignnow
Gonzales isn't the only one who needs to answer for this scandal. President Bush and his staff must come clean about their involvement in these politically motivated firings. I've joined the call for a full and thorough investigation to determine all the facts.
But it is time for the attorney general -- who repeatedly and falsely claimed the firings were based on performance -- to step down. He has clearly forgotten the difference between his current job as America's top law enforcement officer and his old job as President Bush's personal attorney.
Join me today in calling on Alberto Gonzales to resign.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/resignnow
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Is this scrappleface?
Apparently The Hildabeaste feels she is baggage immune.
A fatal mistake, IMHO.
Her entire life is Scrappleface. And notice how she starts out her missive "Dear Friend"? That's because she only has one friend, and she knows it. She is the Ted Baxter of politics.
Dear Hillary:
When your husband took office, he wanted to get rid of an Arkansas Federal Prosecutor (and just between us -- we know why, don't we?) so he fired all 93 Federal Prosecutors. So why the sudden interest in politically motivated firings?
You didn't seem to have a problem when you had the White House Travel Office removed, then even went out of your way to attempt to discredit them, which they were able to prove later.
If I were you, I would shut the pie hole.
Citizen
Is that the US Attorney in Arkansas that you had put in office to replace the one that was investigating White Water, Mrs. BJ?
I just signed the petition under the name Bent One.
I wrote:
"I just hate it when a president fires US attorneys. I think anyone who does it should resign or be impeached.... oh, wait...."
Yup.....out of 93, Mrs. Bill Clinton's husband fired 92 of them.
I'm sure she's really just interested in what's best for us and this couldn't possibly be politically motivated.
Oh...by the way, Schrillary, while you're in the mood for creating investigations, let's start one on what really happened to Vince Foster.
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
This is not a scandal, and no one needs to resign over it.
For making a mountain out of a molehill and seeking to aggrandize yourself with it, YOU might consider resigning, though.
It would be the decent thing to do.
Duh! What was I thinking? Never mind.
Judith Anne
I've been posting this complaint for years, and always get the defeatist reaction "Oh yeah, well the MSM won't report it." Limbaugh must hear the same thing, because he went out of his way to say that if a GOPer would call a press conference to blast Hilary, it would get coverage.
The republicans don't just sell out their party by doing nothing, they sell the country out. They'll let Hilary establish the most corrupt government in US history.
No, no, no! We want her to keep talking and thereby show the masses how hypocritical she really is! Her coming out on this situation puts a huge bullseye on her head!
"Funny how nobody is talking about the many US attorneys that Bill Clinton fired in 1993."
And nobody is talking about Johnny Carson either because neither has anything to do with Bush firing his OWN appointees.
It's no scandal but please stop throwing out the Clinton strawman. It's not the same.
There is an untold story of the U.S. Attorney's terminations.
In the case of Carol Lam, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, there were concerns before she was terminated that she wasn't prosecuting certain drug smuggling and other cases; that charges weren't brought in cases where they should have been.
I had some personal involvement in a major trial in U.S. District Court in San Diego in 2005. This trial went on for six months. And Carol Lam was in that courtroom every day supervising that trial proceedings. As the U.S. Attorney, she supervised a large staff of attorneys and was responsible for several other trials that were going on at any given time. It makes sense to me that because she spent all her time on this one particular case, she wasn't taking care of her other responsibilities during that time period. She wasn't supervising staff, she wasn't able to make the decisions to prosecute cases, she wasn't able to plan prosecution strategy. In her case, anyway, there were criticisms of her job performance well before she was dismissed.
"Vince Foster
Ft. Marcy Park
Vfoster@moveon.org."
...has signed the petition.
Calling this a scandal is beyond the pale. Her campaign is distasteful.
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