Post #277,668
3/7/07 9:23:04 PM
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Names to watch for
Iglesias
Domenici
Blalack
Cunningham
Lam
The fired attorney scandal* will grow to overshadow Libby's crime of obstruction of Cheney's indictment for outing a NOC.
*I typed that word with only one finger for emphasis.
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Post #277,676
3/7/07 10:01:03 PM
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Depends
If the Democrats in Congress carry out their threat to hold public hearings about the Plame case it could blow up on Bush several different ways.
Still, the attorney scandal is brewing up quickly, and has the benefit of being a lot easier to understand.
Plus, what I have been hearing from the White House suggests that they are going to let Libby take one for the team. Let his conviction stand (with a possible last minute outgoing pardon from Bush) to make the problem go away.
Jay
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Post #277,688
3/8/07 12:05:22 AM
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Libby can be controlled, The Attorneys General can't
Libby's sword is all ready for him to fall on. He will. There is no single point of control with the AG situation. I give Gonzalez about 3 weeks. Right around the time Cheney retires for health reasons.
Out on a limb prediction. 21 days. Cheney retires, Gonzales indicted.
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Post #277,692
3/8/07 12:53:44 AM
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Huh..?
Y'think this has that many LEGS ??
Maybe I'm just inured to similar outrageous behavior about every week - so my Tipping-Point meter is way out of calibration. There are all kinds of reasons to support impeachment of both Shrub and Darth; before this brouhaha there was AG Torquemada, self-evidently an anti-Constitutional creep - and NONE of that has mattered / or, at least: been Enough.
What's so special about *this* merely [In Your Face] political hacking.. so like what they've always done? Can the 'firing/replacements' be tied directly to AG Torquemada's febrile brain-pan, or is it the collaboration with Upstairs AND the firings - you deem 'Enough' to actually DO Something ??
(Mind you, I'd Love to believe that Something matters to the effete disconnected disinterested masses..)
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Post #277,695
3/8/07 7:52:44 AM
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No more legs than other things. Timing
Dems have the power of subpoena now. Gonzales has already said he's to "busy" to talk to congress about this. They are pissed.
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Post #277,762
3/8/07 3:55:14 PM
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Don't the attornies work at the whim of the President?
I thought that it was SOP for an incoming president to remove the lot of them and insert people who supported the winning side of an election.
lincoln
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Post #277,769
3/8/07 4:38:36 PM
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yep.
That would have been about 6 years ago. This mass firing during their term is unprecedented.
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Post #277,793
3/8/07 8:25:56 PM
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Specter and others may have had enough of Gonzales
[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030801087_pf.html|Washington Post]: Thursday, March 8, 2007; 5:28 PM
Senior Senate Republicans today delivered scathing criticism of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for his handling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, joining Democrats in charging that the prosecutors were dismissed without adequate explanation.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that Gonzales's status as the nation's leading law enforcement officer might not last through the remainder of President Bush's term, pointedly disputing the attorney general's public rationale for the mass firings.
"One day there will be a new attorney general, maybe sooner rather than later," Specter said at a committee hearing where a new round of subpoenas to the Justice Department was considered.
After the meeting, Specter declined to elaborate on that remark, but told reporters that most of the blame for the ongoing controversy rests with the attorney general. "It's snowballing, mostly with the help of the Department of Justice," he said.
Two of the Justice Department's most vocal defenders on the issue, Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), also had sharp words for senior Justice Department officials who attacked the credibility of the prosecutors publicly by saying they performed poorly at their jobs.
"Some people's reputations are going to suffer needlessly," Kyl said. "Hopefully we can get to the point where we say, 'These people did a great job.'"
[...] Every extended clip I've seen of Gonzales testifying before Congress has shown him to have little respect for their oversight functions. He may have finally gone too far. While it would be up to Bush to remove him, but I believe Congress can do things like refuse to hear testimony from him, put restraints on his budget, etc., that effectively make it impossible for him to do his job. Cheers, Scott.
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