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New E-Mail Gives Details on Attorney Dismissals - New York Times
by Mike the Usurper at 10:08 am EDT, Mar 20, 2007 |
Mr. Gonzales believed that the prosecutor, H. E. Cummins III, the United States attorney for Arkansas, was dismissed for performance reasons, the e-mail suggested. But his deputy, Paul J. McNulty, testified that Mr. Cummins had been replaced to create a vacancy for J. Timothy Griffin, a political ally of the White House political adviser Karl Rove.
Now why would Karl Rove care about having one of his cronies in place as the US Attorney in Arkansas? Oh, that's right, that's where one of the likely opponents in the next election lived through the 80's. Let's put our boy down there so we can stir up more on her come election time so we can get someone in the White House who won't look too close at what we were doing and send us all to jail. |
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RE: New E-Mail Gives Details on Attorney Dismissals - New York Times
by finethen at 9:26 pm EDT, Mar 20, 2007 |
What I find interesting about all this is the fact that anyone's shocked. Politically appointed lawyers might have been fired for *gasp* political reasons? The guy that had the job in the first place was probably someone's crony too. Until someone finds for me the statute that says political appointees can't be fired for non-specific performance reasons (and there well may be one), I will read all this as the Dems trying to distract us from global warming and lobbyist reform failure. |
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