Posted on 05/14/2007 2:39:04 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys, The Associated Press has learned.
McNulty, who has served 18 months as the Justice Department's second-in-command, announced his plans at a closed-door meeting of U.S. attorneys in San Antonio, according to two senior department aides. He said he will remain at the department until this fall or until the Senate approves a successor, the aides said.
More non-story Fake News from the Pro-terrorist leftist media.
Good. That means the senate can't use refusal to confirm to force some kind of Watergate deal on Bush. Bush needs to put someone highly competent and trustworthy in there, in case Gonzalez has to leave down the line. But I'm not sure how many great candidates will volunteer to take the job with a lame-duck president, a department stocked with clintonoid whiners and leakers, and probably only a year or so in office.
I feel like I’m living in never-never land. clinton fires more than 90, and yet the MSM writes of this admin. firing 8 as if it were a massacre. Nobody, nobody has spoken of the Clinton firings. Just unreal.
That’s because most of your MSM toads know there’s some serious truth behind “The Clinton Body Count” and they don’t wish to be part of it.
Well that was entirely different. Clinton was a democrat.
Wimp !!!
Too bad President Bush didn't can the whole damn bunch of them on day one.
Yes they do. Republicans bring it up all the time. The Democrat response is that Clinton's action in firing ALL is "tradition". What they claim is "unprecedented" is to fire them in midterm, and to fire those of a President's own party.
Bush I fired ALL of them. So did Reagan. As did Clinton.
Unfortunately, it’s not about the firings. (It’s about the strategy behind the replacements.) It’s very complicated.
The problem is that people are quitting rather than testify. That just doesn’t look good to the American people. It hurts our party. I truly believe that if Gonzales had simply resigned — none of this would have happened. That guy just ain’t right in the head. Hopefully, it isn’t too late to stop this investigation. There IS no physical evidence, yet.
Undoubtedly he's planning on staying in place until just before the 2008 elections. Other partisans he has promoted are in place to drop unsubstantiated "bad news" on the MSM at that time allowing Paul to comment on such things as a supposed "expert".
It's all a Dem trick. "W" should fire this guy and anyone he's ever promoted MACHSCHNELL!!!
If this is a fact -- shouldn't Gonzales ask him to clean out his desk today??? What is wrong with that guy?
What’s more annoying in this whole debacle is how incompetent Alberto Gonzales looks. He had so many weeks to prepare his story and he still couldn’t get it right when testifying.
Those at the DOJ did not serve the president well. Perception is just as strong as reality and the perception is one of incompetence and cronyism. And the Democrats just can’t get enough of it...
See post #13. This is great news.
He was also close to Comey (who appointed Fitzgerald and is rumored to have given Berger his deal) and had ties to Schumer.
The point was that it wasn’t at the outset. It was after Reno had been confirmed. All of them were to be fired and clean out their desks that weekend. This is unheard of, administrations, even when they come in, give the prosecutors a chance to finish their investigations. It is believed that this was an effort to shut down the investigation into one of the Clinton scandals.
In this case, most of the complaints against the prosecutors is that they have been dragging their feet, particularly on immigration and on voter fraud.
I do not have a clue. I have just picked up my information from posts by macranger and clarice feldman and a few others. A mole maybe? How did Comey get appointed by Asccroft to oversee the Plame affair? Somehow Ashcroft got snickered.
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