Alberto Gonzalez is using his power for political purposes? Really?
Who'd a thunk it!

Jewish World Review Sept. 15, 1998 / 24 Elul, 5758

Thomas Sowell

...The Clintons could not interfere with the feds, however -- at least not until they were in the White House. By then, Madison Guaranty had been closed down and federal investigators were on the trail of the frauds. By FIRING all U.S. Attorneys shortly after becoming president -- something no other president had ever done before -- Bill Clinton got rid of the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas who was investigating the Whitewater-Madison Guaranty scandals and replaced him with Paula Casey, a Clinton protege and one of his political campaign workers.

The president's Arkansas appointee had no experience as a prosecutor, but she had political ties to the people being investigated -- including the Clintons and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker.

Other federal authorities who sent information to Ms. Casey for criminal investigations of Tucker and the Clintons got nowhere. She officially declined the criminal referrals. She even kept the information from reaching Justice Department headquarters in Washington, until others went over her head to tell the top brass at Justice in D.C.

97. 3-23-93
Attorney General Janet Reno fires all 90 US attorneys, effectively
terminating the Justice Department inquiry into the doings of Rep. Dan
Rostenkowski. (If the Justice Department actually indicts
Rep. Rostenkowski, this item will be removed from this list.)

"silencing men and women who were doing a GOOD job " NUFF SAID?

Kerrin57-

re: (If the Justice Department actually indicts
Rep. Rostenkowski, this item will be removed from this list.)

Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) was indicted in 1994 on 17 felony charges, including the embezzlement of $695,000 in taxpayer and campaign funds. The longtime House Ways and Means chairman plea-bargained his way down to two counts of mail fraud and served 17 months in a Wisconsin minimum-security prison.

Idiot.

Kerrin57-
GW Bush also "fired" all Clinton appointed attorneys and appointed his own upon being inaugurated as President. It's a common practice. Bush is firing his own appointments.

Kerrin57-
For example, Carol Lam - mentioned prominently in this article- was appointed by GW Bush.

Was that not mentioned in your sources of truth, Kerrin57?

Bummer.

Boyd: Don't force the righties to deal with reality.
It hurts their heads.

Well I'm glad the honorable Sen from California decided to investigate all the DA's Clinton fired! Way to go Diane!

PS Diane, do you need a pool boy?

Because Clinton did it at the start of his term, I can't beleive Bush waited so long.

I can't beleive Bush waited so long.

He's firing the ones HE appointed, apparently for finding Republican corruption.

Hey someone in GOVERNMENT was actually fired!

Sniper, Slick, SKI, et al-

You understand that Bush also cleared the previous attorneys and appointed his own in 2001, but now he is purging his own appointments?

You understand this, right?

(Of course you don't, but it's kinda time you did.)

Boyd: Sniper is busy looking at the Want Ads in the back of his latest Guns & Ammo magazine, Ski is playing with his own boogers, and Slickster is sniffing his fingers. In other words, don't expect immediate replies.

Monte-
"Immediate replies"? Hell, they didn't even notice that their arguments had been reduced to nothing BEFORE they posted.

New American public policy brought forth by Bush and Co.:

Fire anyone doing their job if it runs contrary to partisan politics and misguided policy.

Long list of Generals and long time public servants no longer working for our betterment because they spoke the truth and acted in our nation's best interests.

Hey kerrin--
where's that snappy retort now, that your posts conveniently left out that Bush is firing HIS OWN appointees?

Ass. Idiot. Fool. Clown. Shill.

Hey kerrin--
where's that snappy retort now, that your posts conveniently left out that Bush is firing HIS OWN appointees?

Ass. Idiot. Fool. Clown. Shill.

Stacking the Judiciary has become more important to BushCo than winning the phoney war on terror. But, Feinstein made $600 million off that war, with hubby Blume, a major stockholder in URS & Perrini.

New American public policy brought forth by Bush and Co.:

Fire anyone doing their job if it runs contrary to partisan politics and misguided policy.


Posted by AllAmerican at 2007-02-27 08:30 PM | Reply

That is hardly a new policy from this administration. They have been firing Generals that had the balls to tell Rummy he was fucking up in Iraq for years.

You understand that Bush also cleared the previous attorneys and appointed his own in 2001, but now he is purging his own appointments?

You understand this, right?

Yes, I do. I also understand that DA are appointed for a 4 year term and work for the justice department. I also understand that they are not career appointments but rather political/managerial positions in the justice Dept chain of command. Each DA office contains career officers/lawyers who continue to work on cases regardless of the appointed DA. They still receive direction from the justice dept in Wash. Like any other managerial position, if one choses to ignore the directives from the boss and pursue ones personnel agenda, one gets a chance to 'pursue other opportunites'.

They have been firing Generals that had the balls to tell Rummy he was fucking up in Iraq for years.
Can you give us a list?

"Can you give us a list....?"

Actually, those generals were telling Rummy what a really fine job he was doing in Iraq, and by the way Mr. President, we don't need no new troops, no sir, not unless the GOP loses control of Congress, thank you very much.

You understand that Bush also cleared the previous attorneys and appointed his own in 2001, but now he is purging his own appointments?

You understand this, right?

Posted by Boyd

So, if I hire someone and they turn out not to be a good worker, I can't fire them? What a world we live in.

"So, if I hire someone and they turn out not to be a good worker, I can't fire them?"

Of course. However, yet another point on the issue you seem to have missed is that the majority of the fired US Attorneys had received positive performance reviews prior to being let go.

This article references that and the one that was on here a day or 2 ago goes into that in detail.

Nothing about this situation strikes you as odd?

Sorry folks the 'politics' connection is merely incidental. The real reason they were fired was for competence.

Remember that with this regime you get rewarded, nay, even a medal for gross incompetence. So it stands to reason that one could get fired for over abiding competence. The evidence is in the performance reviews.

DAVID LIMBAUGH..." At once, she (RENO)fired all 93 of the country's United States attorneys. According to no less an authority than Ted Olson, President George Bush's chief post-election attorney, Reno's move was extreme and unprecedented. "In order to maintain continuity in thousands of pending prosecutions, and as a statement to the public that elections do not influence routine law enforcement, the nation's top prosecutors are traditionally replaced only after their successors have been located, appointed, and confirmed by the Senate. On instructions from the White House (she claimed it was a 'joint' decision; no one believes that), Reno ordered all 93 to leave in ten days. There could not have been a clearer signal that the Clinton campaign war room had taken over law enforcement in America."
...TEN DAYS

Once again Kerrin, that is NOT the point of the article or this issue. New administrations get rid of carryovers all the time. The example you cited happened right after the Clinton administration came in. Whether it was unprecedented or not, I can't say. But I do love the "According to no less an authority than Ted Olson..." part. LOL I'm super impressed.

The issue here is that Bush is getting rid of his own appointees - most of whom have received great performance reviews and have no black marks on their records.

At least argue the point and don't try to throw up red herrings.

Sniper-
So, if I hire someone and they turn out not to be a good worker, I can't fire them? What a world we live in.

Please attempt to make that case regarding these attorneys, in particular Carol Lam and Iglesias.

Sniper-
In addition, regarding your comment that, "Because Clinton did it at the start of his term, I can't beleive Bush waited so long."

He didn't. He's purging his own appointments.