But sources who have examined or been briefed on the full records identified at least 26 names, including the nine prosecutors fired last year and another, Karl K. "Kasey" Warner of Charleston, W.Va., who was dismissed in August 2005.

And then there were 10 (11 if you count Fred Black). At this rate, the administration won't survive until Labor Day much less the end of the term.

Justice Weighed Firing 1 in 4 - washingtonpost.com

“You have a Monica problem,” Ms. Ashton was told, according to several Justice Department officials. Referring to Monica M. Goodling, a 31-year-old, relatively inexperienced lawyer who had only recently arrived in the office, the boss added, “She believes you’re a Democrat and doesn’t feel you can be trusted.”

Yeah, this would be worth taking the 5th on. If she opens her mouth, she's cooked. Unfortunately, with everything that's come out, she's already cooked, and likely going to Danbury for quite some time.

Colleagues Cite Partisan Focus by Justice Official - New York Times

She said she then got a call from New York later the same day asking her to introduce Giuliani at a rally in Cedar Rapids, also scheduled for May 4. They offered her one-on-one time with Giuliani and to have her photo taken with him.

“My feeling is that they’re trying to cover their butts,” said Jerry.

“I may go and give him a piece of my mind, but I’m not going to introduce him,” Deb included.

Rule: Don't pull things like this on people in Iowa. They find it insulting and have very long memories. I'll be surprised if Rudy gets a single vote from Anamosa that isn't at the state pen.

Giuliani Snubs Jones County - Anamosa Journal Eureka, Anamosa, Iowa

On November 7 Black informed the DOJ of his preliminary investigation of Abramoff. Days later, Guam's new Republican Governor, Felix Camacho, wrote a letter to the White House asking to keep Black on. Yet on November 19, a day after Black subpoenaed the Abramoff contract, the Administration announced that it was nominating Rapadas. Black was subsequently barred from handling any public corruption cases.

A more extensive treatment on the case of Fred Black. They did it once, and no one noticed. Then they canned Graves and no one noticed. Then they went too far and everyone noticed. And all of it goes right to the White House. This one is not going away.

Attorneygate in Guam

In fact, a Justice Department spokesperson had told the press, and senior Justice officials had told Pryor in a private meeting, that although it was the common practice when a U.S. attorney resigned to name the first assistant U.S. attorney in the office as the interim, they had not done so in the case of Cummins's departure because his first assistant, Jane Duke, was about to go on maternity leave.

But other Justice Department records show that Sampson and the White House had decided to name Griffin as a U.S. attorney in June 2006 even before Duke knew she was pregnant. And the records show that they attempted to name Griffin as an interim U.S. attorney to either enhance the possibility that he would be confirmed by the Senate or to circumvent Senate confirmation completely.

It seems that not only was their stated reason illegal, it was also false. Whoops.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove (05/10/07)

Participants in the Tuesday meeting between Mr. Bush, senior administration officials and 11 members of a moderate bloc of House Republicans said the lawmakers were unusually candid with the president, telling him that public support for the war was crumbling in their swing districts.

One told Mr. Bush that voters back home favored a withdrawal even if it meant the war was judged a loss. Representative Tom Davis told Mr. Bush that the president’s approval rating was at 5 percent in one section of his northern Virginia district.

We saw the hints of a sea change in 2006, it's starting to look like 2008 may be a full blown tidal wave, unlike anything since 1976 or 1932.

G.O.P. Moderates Warn Bush Iraq Must Show Gains - New York Times

The former U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., Todd P. Graves, said yesterday that he was asked to step down from his job by a senior Justice Department official in January 2006, months before eight other federal prosecutors would be fired by the Bush administration.

Add Mr. Black in Guam and you have ten. This is the going to be the end. The best case scenario is going to be if Bush can find someone to step in like Ford to pardon him and Cheney. The more likely scenario? Danbury. The first charge will be obstruction of justice relating to the attorney firings (Lam vs Lewis, Doolittle and Abramoff, Graves and the bogus voter fraud cases in Missouri, Black and more fun with Jack Abramoff, Iglesias vs Renzi) and it will not improve from there.

Sorry George, there is no executive privilege when you break the law.

WP: Number of fired prosecutors grows - washingtonpost.com

The saddest legacy of the Bush Administration’s six-year trail of cronyism and corruption is that it contributes to the public’s already cynical view of government. This makes it even more difficult for those of us who believe that the purpose of government is to secure a better future for our country and all of its people. Repairing this sorry legacy is the first challenge our next President will face.

Hits the mark dead on with this. Cleaning up this mess will take years.

Rahm Emanual - Brookings Institute

Republican officials then allowed speakers to defend and refute the resolution. One speaker, who was identified as "Joe," said illegal immigrants were Marxist and under the influence of the devil. Another, who declined to give her name to the Daily Herald, said illegal immigrants should not be allowed because "they are not going to become Republicans and stop flying the flag upside down. ... If they want to be Americans, they should learn to speak English and fly their flag like we do."

Two things completely wrong here. One, immigrants are pretty much anything but Marxist, they're just trying to get money to send home so their families aren't living in abject poverty. Two, flying the flag upside down is not an accident, it's the symbol for distress (thanks you to "The Last Castle" with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini for that) and if they're flying the flag upside down (which I have neither seen nor heard of them doing) means they think the country is going in the wrong direction.

If this is the standard the Republican Party is basing their decisions on these days, they need to disband and start over.

Convention ends with Satan and immigrants

A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Department’s expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case.

Making the situation more awkward for the embattled Department, the official, Robert E. Coughlin II, was deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the Department’s probe of Abramoff.

Whoops! Who could have seen this one coming? At this rate? Anyone. Find a henhouse and figure whoever George has put in charge of it is a fox raiding it.

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/27/2007 | Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff