so once again we're told

they're lying pieces of steamin' shite. i don't know the law. i AM guessing they broke it (AGAIN) from here to there. a wrist slap perhaps?

Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.

The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.

“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”..........

this is VERRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYY interesting

no one is smelling this stink? hmmmmmm
Break-ins plague targets of US Attorneys
Larisa Alexandrovna, Muriel Kane and Lindsay Beyerstein
The Permanent Republican Majority Part VI
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases have experienced 10 suspicious incidents including break-ins and arson
These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because of the suspicious nature of each incident individually as well as the pattern collectively. Typically burglars do not break-into an office or private residence only to rummage through documents, for example, as is the case with most of the burglaries in these two federal cases.
In Alabama, for instance, the home of former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman was burglarized twice during the period of his first indictment. Nothing of value was taken, however, and according to the Siegelman family, the only items of interest to the burglars were the files in Siegelman's home office.
Siegelman's attorney experienced the same type of break-in at her office.
In neighboring Mississippi, a case brought against a trial lawyer and three judges raises even more disturbing questions. Of the four individuals in the same case, three of the US Attorney’s targets were the victims of crimes during their indictment or trial. This case, like that of Governor Siegelman, has been widely criticized as a politically motivated prosecution by a Bush US Attorney.
The main target of the indictment, attorney Paul Minor, had his office broken into, while Mississippi Supreme Court Justice, Oliver E. Diaz Jr., had his home burglarized. According to police reports and statements from Diaz and from individuals close to Minor, nothing of value was taken and the burglars only rummaged through documents and in Minor’s case, also took a single computer from an office full of expensive office equipment. ...........

if it's good enough for flush limburger

it's good enough for alberto gonzales..................

and if you don't think the big companies (including of course the DRUG companies) have a hand in what's going on in the world, YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN

(also check out this posting from the DARK SIDE, ok ok, it's really called copious dissent, by the devil's advocate bring liberals and conservatives together.....................)

U.S. Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept.


By Amy Goldstein and Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writers

The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker, urged him to slow down, the prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
John L. Brownlee, the U.S. attorney in Roanoke, testified that he was at home the evening of Oct. 24 when he received the call on his cellphone from Michael J. Elston, then chief of staff to the deputy attorney general and one of the Justice aides involved in the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
Brownlee settled the case anyway. Eight days later, his name appeared on a list compiled by Elston of prosecutors that officials had suggested be fired.............

is someone's ass FINALLY going to fry?

NOT the biggest ones (yet) but we can only hope this is a start. i don't even think the us attorney shite is the biggest crap king george and his court have foist upon us. i think there has been treason, war crimes, crimes against humanity, the slow but sure dissolution of our constitution. if we can start with the us attorneys, i hope we can end with their ugly old white asses in jail (ALL of 'em)

House Panel Backs Citing Bush Aides for Contempt


By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer and Washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

The House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to issue contempt citations for two of President Bush's closest aides, moving nearer to a constitutional confrontation with the White House over access to information about the Justice Department's dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys.
The panel voted 22 to 17, along party lines, to issue citations to Joshua B. Bolten, White House chief of staff, and Harriet E. Miers, former White House counsel. Both refused to comply with committee subpoenas after Bush declared that documents and testimony related to the prosecutor firings are protected by executive privilege..........

uh oh (notice a lot of those of late???)

Gonzales Meeting With Aide Scrutinized
Justice Dept. Checking For Possible Wrongdoing

if they don't stop digging these holes

they're going to be SO big, we're ALL going to swallowed up

Ex-Prosecutor Says He Didn't Think Charges Would Affect Election


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer

A former interim U.S. attorney appointed by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales defended his decision to bring a controversial indictment before last year's elections, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no idea Missouri Republicans would use the case as part of their campaign against Democrats.
Bradley J. Schlozman, who temporarily replaced dismissed U.S. attorney Todd P. Graves of Kansas City, Mo., also said that career officials in the department's public integrity section approved the case, in which four former employees of a liberal-leaning group were charged with voter-registration fraud
"I did not think it was going to influence the election at all," Schlozman said.........

caging. i'd never heard of it

but it's NOT legal.......... uh oh


Former White House Communications Deputy Tim Griffin Resigns after Evidence Ties Him to Alleged Voter Suppression

Posted by Jon Ponder

Big media is ignoring the story that former White House Deputy Communications Director — and former RNC Research Director — Tim Griffin resigned as the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas last week after evidence revealed he was directly involved in alleged voter suppression in the 2004 elections.
This may be the first time you’ve heard of the illegal tactic of “caging” voters, but if BBC investigator Greg Palast is correct, it will not be the last.
Caging is a form of voter suppression involving registered mail. Typically, campaigns send registered letters to voters who are are unlikely to respond — soldiers serving overseas, for example. A list is compiled of the voters whose mail is returned marked undeliverable, or “caged.” On election day, when people on the caging list arrive to vote, campaign operatives are on hand to float challenges to their residency in the precinct. Palast says caging is a felony.
Palast recently obtained hundreds of emails sent by White House officials to Bush-Cheney operatives during the 2004 campaign. Among these were emails containing caging lists sent by Griffin, apparently in his role as communications deputy..............

when yhou think of the numbers

one in four is A LOT.

when one considers firing 26 united states attorneys we all know ONE lower level employee doesn't have that type of power. we all DO know who DOES have that type of power.

will justice (get it, justice?) be done?
i seriously doubt it. it hasn't been done so far (on ANYTHING)

Justice Weighed Firing 1 in 4
26 Prosecutors Were Listed As Candidates


By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writers

The Justice Department considered dismissing many more U.S. attorneys than officials have previously acknowledged, with at least 26 prosecutors suggested for termination between February 2005 and December 2006, according to sources familiar with documents withheld from the public.
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales testified last week that the effort was limited to eight U.S. attorneys fired since last June, and other administration officials have said that only a few others were suggested for removal.

In fact, D. Kyle Sampson, then Gonzales's chief of staff, considered more than two dozen U.S. attorneys for termination, according to lists compiled by him and his colleagues, the sources said..............

seems like what's good for ONE goose, not only isn't good for the gander

BUT isn't good for another goose either.

if they don't like the rules, they JUST CHANGE 'EM. what's wrong with that? PLENTY

why is the gonze still in office? for that matter, why are we allowing the king and his court to still rule?

as i always say to my (beloved) red sox

S
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('em ALL out)

Residency Clause Adds Fuel To Dispute Over U.S. Attorneys
One Prosecutor Gets an Exemption, Another Gets Fired


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 2, 2007; Page A03
On Nov. 10, 2005, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sent a letter to a federal judge in Montana, assuring him that the U.S. attorney there, William W. Mercer, was not violating federal law by spending most of his time in Washington as a senior Justice Department official.
That same day, Mercer had a GOP Senate staffer insert into a bill a provision that would change the rules so that federal prosecutors could live outside their districts to serve in other jobs, according to documents and interviews.......

.........But the episode, which received little notice at the time, provides another example in which Gonzales's statements appear to conflict with simultaneous actions by his aides in connection with U.S. attorney policies. Lawmakers investigating the department's handling of the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys have repeatedly accused Gonzales of being less than truthful about the roles played by himself and the White House...................

i have been deposed

and the last time, they flew three lawyers up from georgia (i don't fly well) to question me. i said 'i don't know' MANY times. however, with ME, it was true. i DIDN'T know because i had NOTHING to do with the situation they were asking about.

i was doing some errands yesterday and had npr on in the car. i truly forgot gonzo was going to be 'testifying'. i just lucked out. the commentators on the radio broadcast (this is my interpretation of course) were saying what a dope gonzo was BUT they had never seen or heard anything like what was going on. how even republicans were dissing the gonz YET EVERYONE sort of pitied him (i didn't detect any pity but then again, i listened to very little actual testimony). one of the analysts then said something about how NO ONE was making the gonz give an ACTUAL REAL answer to THE question. how he denied giving his permission to his 'staff' to do some axing yet the axing indeed took place. WHO was running the SHOW???



Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill


By Dana Milbank Friday, April 20, 2007; Page A02
Alberto Gonzales's tenure as attorney general was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m. yesterday by Tom Coburn, M.D.
The good doctor, who also happens to be a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made this clinical judgment after watching Gonzales suffer through four hours of painful testimony. The Oklahoman listed the cause of death as management failure and other complications of the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors.........

...............The hearing was billed as Gonzales's chance to explain the contradictions, omissions and falsehoods in his response to the firings. But instead of contrition, the attorney general treated the committee to a mixture of arrogance, combativeness and amnesia. Even his would-be defenders on the Republican side were appalled.................

Senators Renew Bipartisan Call for Gonzales to Go

by Pam Fessler

NPR.org, April 19, 2007 · Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced renewed calls for his resignation Thursday during a contentious daylong hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. After lengthy questioning about what led to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, both Democrats and Republicans said they had lost confidence in the attorney general and his handling of the department.
"The best way to put this behind us is your resignation," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said..........

...............The hearing shed little light on the role of the White House in the firings. Gonzales acknowledged that he had a conversation with chief White House political adviser Karl Rove and President Bush about complaints that former U.S. attorney David Iglesias was not pursuing voter fraud cases more aggressively in New Mexico. But Gonzales said he did not know how and when Iglesias' name was added to the list of those recommended for firing, although he said he was not "surprised" to see the name ..............

in his own words

NONE of which i believe mind you

danger danger will robinson. let's do some damange control (a bit late, no?)

he created 'confusion' and for that, he be jammin, whoops, i mean he be sorry

Nothing Improper


By Alberto R. GonzalesSunday, April 15, 2007; Page B07
My decision some months ago to privately seek the resignations of a small number of U.S. attorneys has erupted into a public firestorm. First and foremost, I appreciate the public service of these fine lawyers and dedicated professionals, each of whom served his or her full four-year term as U.S. attorney. I apologize to them, their families and the thousands of dedicated professionals at the Justice Department for my role in allowing this matter to spin into an undignified Washington spectacle.
What began as a well-intentioned management effort to identify where, among the 93 U.S. attorneys, changes in leadership might benefit the department, and therefore the American people, has become an unintended public controversy........

iglesias gets fired for absenteesim

(which was mainly caused BY HIM BEING AN OFFICER IN THE NAVAL RESERVES) yet all of these OTHER us attorneys are away from their jobs (at the bidding of gonzo of course), are getting complaints from their states YET still HAVE their us attorney jobs

will wonders never cesase

Six U.S. Attorneys Given 2nd Posting in Washington


By Dan EggenWashington Post Staff Writer
A half-dozen sitting U.S. attorneys also serve as aides to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales or are assigned other Washington postings, performing tasks that take them away from regular duties in their districts for months or even years at a time, according to officials and department records.
Acting Associate Attorney General William W. Mercer, for example, has been effectively absent from his job as U.S. attorney in Montana for nearly two years -- prompting the chief federal judge in Billings to demand his removal and call Mercer's office "a mess."...........

..............Iglesias filed a complaint with federal investigators last week, alleging that his dismissal amounted to discrimination based on his status as an officer in the Navy Reserve, which took him away from the job for 40 to 45 days a year. Alleged absenteeism has been the Justice Department's main public criticism of Iglesias, although officials have more recently added concerns about his handling of voter fraud and immigration cases to their arguments about him.
"It's a double standard and it's hypocritical," Iglesias said............

wow now THIS is getting REALLY good!

they (gonzo gonzales and buds) claimed former us attorney david iglesias was an 'absentee landlord' spending TOO MUCH TIME AWAY FROM HIS JOB

guess WHY former us attorney david iglesias was away from his job? HE WAS DOING HIS DUTY AS AN OFFICER IN THE NAVEL RESERVE

this brings me GREAT delight (NOT the part where he was acutally fired of course. i'm sure former us attorney iglesias suffered when he was fired). MORE evidence (NOT that it will make ONE bit of difference. the amercian people seem to be letting ALL of this slide by. they are NOT demanding their congress people start impeachment proceedings against this INSANE administration..........anyway, i rant too much. here's the article

Docked for Duty?"

The Justice Department called David Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, an 'absentee landlord'—a key reason listed for his firing last December. Just one problem: Iglesias, a captain in the Navy Reserve, was off teaching classes as part of the war on terror. Now Iglesias is striking back, arguing he was improperly dismissed.

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek

April 4, 2007 - When he wasn’t doing his day job as U.S. attorney in New Mexico, David Iglesias was a captain in the Navy Reserve, teaching foreign military officers about international terrorism
But Iglesias’s military service in support of what the Pentagon likes to call the Global War on Terror (GWOT) apparently didn’t go down well with his superiors at the Justice Department. Recently released documents show that one reason aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cited in justifying the decision to fire Iglesias as U.S attorney late last year was that he was an “absentee landlord” who was spending too much time away from the office.........

....;/The OSC’s inquiry into the Iglesias case—first reported this week in NEWSWEEK— injects yet another irony to the controversy over the U.S. attorney firings.
The Bush administration has vigorously promoted enforcement of USERRA—in large part because of the dramatic increase in National Guard and military reserve members who have been called into active duty due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The law’s purpose—highlighted by Gonzales himself in a Justice Department press release last summer—is to make sure reservists and National Guard members don’t suffer in the workplace when they are called to serve their country............

it's even MORE blatant and smarmy than even i though

the flush limburgers of the world are howling about what carter did and what clinton did. as i said, carter and clinton are long gone. we're on the king george administration now AND it appears they outscummed EVERYONE else PUT TOGETHER

how can one appoint a federal prosecutor with NO EXPERIENCE (i sit here wondering to myself)???????????????

Prosecutor Posts Go To Bush Insiders
Less Preference Shown for Locals, Senators' Choices


By Amy Goldstein and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, April 1, 2007; Page A01
About one-third of the nearly four dozen U.S. attorney's jobs that have changed hands since President Bush began his second term have been filled by the White House and the Justice Department with trusted administration insiders.
The people chosen as chief federal prosecutors on a temporary or permanent basis since early 2005 include 10 senior aides to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, according to an analysis of government records. Several came from the White House or other government agencies. Some lacked experience as prosecutors or had no connection to the districts in which they were sent to work, the records and biographical information show..............

i accidently left my car radio dial

on the station flush limberger is on. sometimes i listen to the show following his (if i happen to be in my car sometime between 3 to 6 that is). i listened a couple of minutes (which is a couple of minutes longer than i have ever listened before). he was foaming at the mouth about carter and clinton and what they did with the us attorneys.

i don't know the scoop on that. at this point i do NOT care. THEY are NO LONGER the president of the united states of america. king george is. the administrations of carter and clinton are no longer in power. the one of king george is

i am going to paraphrase jon stewart here (whom i love dearly),

why the hell can't rove take a hike over to congress, slap his hand down on a bible and START TALKING THE EFFING TRUTH!!!

E-Mails Show Machinations to Replace Prosecutor

Administration Worked for Months to Make Rove Aide U.S. Attorney in Arkansas
By Dan Eggen and Amy GoldsteinWashington Post Staff Writers Friday, March 23, 2007; Page A01
Two months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice Department to take his place.
Last April, Tim Griffin, a Rove aide and longtime GOP operative, sent the attorney general's chief of staff a flattering letter about himself written by Cummins, the prosecutor he was trying to replace, internal e-mails released this week show. Rove and Harriet Miers, then the White House counsel, were keenly interested in putting him in the position, e-mails reveal...........

...........Some of the thousands of pages of e-mails released this week underscore the extraordinary planning and effort, at the highest levels of the Justice Department and White House, to secure Griffin a job running one of the smaller U.S. attorney's offices in the country........

IS this going to be the first step

in our freedom fight against tyranny?

ARE we going to have a chance to finally have king george and his court admit at the VERY LEAST they are incompetent liars living in a fantasy world?

of course i'm not going to get TOO excited.

House Panel Authorizes Subpoenas Of Officials
White House Again Says Aides Will Not Testify

A House panel authorized subpoenas yesterday for top White House and Justice Department aides, including White House counselor Karl Rove, setting up a constitutional clash with the Bush administration over the U.S. attorneys investigation.........

now get a LOAD of this pile of steamin' shite

...........But White House officials held firm to Bush's offer to turn over thousands of pages of correspondence and to make the aides available only for private interviews and not under oath, with limited questions and no transcriptions. White House spokesman Tony Snow called that offer "extraordinarily generous."
The choice facing Congress is plain, he said: "You want to get at the truth? Or do you want to create a political spectacle?".........

how the hell do they have the NERVE to say stuff like this?

you can question my aides BUT

you can only ax 'em the questions I WANT YOU TO AX 'EM

now THAT'S justice. now THAT'S truth. now THAT'S the american way!

N O T

king george and his court MUST GO the emperor has NO clothes

put those 'aides' on the HOT SEAT AND GRILL 'EM UNTIL THEY ARE WICKED WELL DONE!

Bush Offers Aides For Hill Interviews
Democrats Probing Firings Chafe at Conditions


By Michael Abramowitz and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 21, 2007; Page A01
President Bush sought yesterday to defuse the controversy over the firings of U.S. attorneys, offering strong support for embattled Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales while proposing to make Karl Rove and other top aides available for private interviews with congressional investigators.
The White House, however, limited the kinds of questions the aides would answer and said the interviews may not be conducted under oath or transcribed. The conditions enraged congressional Democrats, who vowed to go ahead with plans to issue subpoenas as early as today that would compel the aides to testify.

more on HE did it, NO SHE did it, NO, he did it, NO....

memories are very 'hazy'. like i said on this and OTHER king george and his court stories. heads MAY roll, but NOT the RIGHT heads

they will pick out a minor court jester or two and offer THEM up for sacrifice to the great goddess. they think that will appease us. well it WON'T appease me

i know who is really guilty and so do the rest of y'all


Accounts of Prosecutors' Dismissals Keep Shifting


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2007; Page A01
More than two weeks after a New Mexico U.S. attorney alleged he was fired for not prosecuting Democrats, the White House and the Justice Department are still struggling to explain the roles of President Bush, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other key officials in the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors last year.
Yesterday, the White House retreated from its four-day-old claim that former counsel Harriet E. Miers started the process two years ago by proposing the firing of all 93 U.S. attorneys.
"It has been described as her idea . . . but I don't want to vouch for origination," press secretary Tony Snow said. "At this juncture, people have hazy memories.".........