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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and the fact that Obama fires IG’s that were doing their job is just not even worth reporting???????
Media is dead.
This story could not have come out at a better time for the GOP. The Dems probably think though that it’s good timing for them because they need another diversion.
What they are not mentioning is that while President, Bush did fire some...but Clinton fired all of them. I haven't checked that, but I remember hearing that the last time the socialists...I mean 'rats brought this up.
More likely Obama will send in one of his closer friends to bomb the Times building to the ground.
“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.”
Refusal to do one’s job sounds like grounds for firing to me. I don’t get it.
Oh, yeah. SO?
Hey Dhimmies! Look up “serves at the pleasure of the President.” Then go take a bath with a plugged-in toaster.
Yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnn...............
Clinton fired appointees from the previous opposite party administration. This is not an uncommon practice for an incoming president in his first term and under those same circumstances Reagan, George H.W.Bush and George W. Bush did it as well.
This whole case began when Bush took the unusually rare step of firing several of his own appointees in his second term. While it was his right to do so, questions were initiated and it snowballed.
“He didn’t get rid of enough of them.”
....I couldn’t agree more!
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