Damn good editorial in the Palm Beach Post on the Attorney General hearings, now set for Thursday.
The vice president, speaking on Face The Nation, pronounced the official White House spin: “This took place inside the Justice Department. The one who needs to answer to that and lay out on the record the specifics of what transpired is the attorney general.” But Mr. Cheney’s claim that “this took place inside the Justice Department” is ludicrous.
Cheney’s claim that “this took place inside the Justice Department” is ludicrous.Even though hundreds of e-mails concerning the firings might be missing, enough exist to show that the White House was heavily involved…David C. Iglesias of New Mexico was fired after Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., complained to the White House about Mr. Iglesias’ failure to indict Democrats before last November’s elections. Before the firings were announced, Karl Rove assured the chairman of the New Mexico GOP that Mr. Iglesias “was gone.”
Not only does Mr. Gonzales have to claim that the White House didn’t play an improper role, he has to repeat the equally unbelievable claim that he didn’t play a central role – despite testimony to the contrary from his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson and Michael A. Battle, director of the office in charge of U.S. attorneys.
Even as Mr. Gonzales prepared last week for his testimony, another cover story was contradicted. Bush administration officials had claimed that no replacements for the attorneys had been chosen in advance. In fact, they had been. The White House wants to confine the scandal to Justice. But in all this, Alberto Gonzales clearly isn’t on his own.
The big question is, how much less approval can George Bush earn and still finish his term? We’re betting his ratings will go still lower, as even Republicans are repelled by his incompetence and deceit.
RE: The millions of “missing” emails that have been “lost” regarding the hatchet job done on the eight US Attorneys.
Who’s to say the emails aren’t missing?
After all, when one has the proverbial 900 pound gorilla that goes by the name National Security Agency at their beck and call, then the emails are probably missing.
Missing as in deliberately wiped out from servers and hard drives, courtesy of the NSA.
Since the NSA has been tasked by King George to “sneak and peek” at email, it would be rather easy to wipe out those pesky emails, especially when they knew the outgoing and incoming email addresses.
YOU CAN BET YOUR SWEET ASS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DELEATED AND CLEANED SO AS TO TRY TO KEEP THE BASTARD CLEAN ALSO CHENY ROVE & THE OTHERS —–THEY SHOULD IMPEACH THE BASTARDS AT LEAST CLINTON HAS US IN GREAT SHAPE AND DID NOT KILL ANY ONE AND THIS BASTARD IF HI IS NOT KILLING YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS THEN HE IS KILLIN US—LIKE AT THE GAS PUMPS! HE DOES NOT WANT TO GET OUT OF IRAQ FOR FEAR THE GAS WILL FALL FOR THAT IS THE ONLY REASON HIM AND CHENY INVADED IRAQ!