Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Bush Administration Lies About U.S. Attorney Purge

McClatchy has the story:

WASHINGTON - Although the Bush administration has said that six U.S. attorneys were fired recently in part because of "performance related" issues, at least five of them had received positive job evaluations before they were ordered to step down.

Administration officials have been forced to defend the firings in recent weeks after critics raised concerns that well-respected, competent U.S. attorneys known for their independence were being removed to make way for handpicked candidates who'd be less likely to buck the White House.

The decision to fire the U.S. attorneys first came under scrutiny late last month after Senate Democrats discovered that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales could use a little-noticed change in the Patriot Act to fill vacancies with interim U.S. attorneys for indefinite terms without Senate approval.

Administration officials have denied that the firings were politically motivated, even though Gonzales had been selecting interim appointees from the White House's inner circle. The officials described the removals as legitimate administrative decisions that were motivated by concerns about the U.S. attorneys' performances.

All these people in the administration do is break the law. It must be nice to have some Harriet Miers types in the judiciary to ignore their crimes rather than the kind who might, you know, indict administration officials for wrong-doing. And what with Dems in charge of oversight these days in the Congress, more and more wrong-doing is being uncovered by the day, especially as relates to the Iraq war and its financing.

Comments:
You didn't think that this administration's hubris would die so easy did you? Maybe a 12 step program would work.

I am on my local library's waiting list for Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" which is about the "reconstruction" of Iraq under L. Paul Bremer.

It might nbe a good idesa for you to forego this book, RBE, because if you read it, your head just might explode like Belloc's at the denouement of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Peace.
 
reality, your article stated:

"...at least five of them had received positive job evaluations before they were ordered to step down."

Though I don't doubt political reasons for the firings, the fact that five received positive job evaluations sounds remarkably like teachers in the NY City public school system just before they're discovered having inappropriate relationships with students.
 
kid, the preznut has already proudly stated how he quit drinking without the help of a 12 step program. I doubt he'll agree to a 12 step program to end the hubris!

I haven't read "Imperial Life" but everything I have read about it and every time I have seen Chandrasekaran on TV, I wonder what all the preznut's supporters would be saying if it was Clinton who had screwed up a foreign occupation so badly.

You gave me the idea to go and get the book from my library for the next week, kid. Thanks.
 
It's like Stalin's purges.
 
reality, you wrote:

"...I wonder what all the preznut's supporters would be saying if it was Clinton who had screwed up a foreign occupation so badly."

YOu must be joking. Clinton would experience less abuse than Bush due to the left-leaning nature of most journalists.

The Wall Street Journal and other conservative press venues might have some unkind words, though the Journal and other responsible venues wouldn't spew the outrageous vitriol that's trailed Bush.

Meanwhile, conservative blogs would trash Clinton with the same abandon liberals now apply to Bush.

It's politics. Nothing new here.
 
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