Text 27735, 58 rader
Skriven 2007-03-13 17:13:04 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 27724 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Rove
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>> Justice Department officials have said the decision to fire the eight
>> prosecutors began in the office of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty,
>> not in
>> the White House. Last week, Rove called the two-month controversy "a
>> very big
>> attempt by some in the Congress to make a political stink about it."

>> Schumer called it "almost unheard of" for a federal prosecutor with
>> favorable
>> reviews to be fired after a top presidential adviser like Rove received
>> complaints about his performance.

>> "The more we learn, the more it seems that people at high levels in the
>> White
>> House have been involved in the U.S. attorney purge," Schumer said Monday.


>"Almost unheard of" my ass!  Clinton fired 93 of 94 US Attorneys right after h
> took office.  Who the hell do these guys think they are?

A little historical reading would no doubt help you out, John:

"The argument is premised on a mistaken understanding of how the process works.
When a president takes office, he or she nominates federal prosecutors at the
beginning of the first term. Under normal circumstances, these U.S. Attorneys
serve until the next president is sworn in.

In 1993, Clinton replaced H.W. Bush's prosecutors. In 2001, Bush replaced
Clinton's prosecutors. None of this is remotely unusual. Indeed, it's how the
process is designed.

The difference with the current scandal is overwhelming. Bush replaced eight
specific prosecutors, apparently for purely political reasons. This is entirely
unprecedented. For conservatives to argue, as many are now, that Clinton's
routine replacements for H.W. Bush's USAs is any way similar is the height of
intellectual dishonesty. They know better, but hope their audience is too
uninformed to know the difference."

Here's an update to the above:

"Update: In case there was still any lingering doubt among conservatives on
this point, in White House documents released today, there's an email to
Harriet Miers from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's chief of staff Kyle
Sampson (who resigned yesterday), in which Sampsons admits that the Clinton
administration never purged its U.S. attorneys in the middle of their terms,
explicitly stating, "In recent memory, during the Reagan and Clinton
Administrations, Presidents Reagan and Clinton did not seek to remove and
replace U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely under the holdover provision." "
Here, I'll even provide the link:

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10193.html

Take care,
Janis

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