Harriet Miers Finally Admits It, Fingers Rove: The U.S. Attorney Firings Were Political
By Susie Madrak Tuesday Aug 11, 2009 2:00pmYeah, we were right about the U.S. Attorney firings. (See above video, which is ten months old.) Even Karl Rove and Harriet Miers admit it now:
The dismissal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats, according to newly released e-mails and transcripts of closed-door House testimony by former Bush counsel Harriet Miers and political chief Karl Rove.
A campaign to oust Iglesias intensified after state party officials and GOP members of the congressional delegation apparently concluded he was not pursuing the cases against Democrats in a way that would help then- Rep. Heather Wilson in a tight releection race, according to interviews and Bush White House e-mails released Tuesday by congressional investigators. The documents place the genesis of Iglesias's dismissal earlier than previously known.
The disclosures mark the end of a two-and-a-half year investigation by the House Judiciary Committee, which sued to gain access to Bush White House documents in a dispute that struck at the heart of a president's executive power. House members have reserved the right to hold a public hearing at which Rove, Miers, and other aides could appear this fall.
House Judiciary Chairman John M. Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) Tuesday characterized the role of Bush White House figures in the firing episode as improper and inappropriate.
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Is anyone surprised? I thought not.
what a surprise?! NOT! some of us knew what was up a very long time ago... these republican(t)s really are transparent. They're only cloaked to the sheeple...
i just hope every day people will come to their senses now and vote vote vote.
Me thinks Harriet has been fingering Carl for years!
So what does this mean? Is there jail time involved I guess is what I want to know.
To answer my question:
We've been waiting for some time for this, haven't we?! patiently... waiting....
Better late than never.
The future might be a bit more daunting for the RW - watch for another over-reaction.
I think they are runing out of pseudo-outrage - the fake BS has been so off the charts - what can they say now?
Cheney had his own hit squads. I guess those attorneys should feel lucky they were just fired.
P.S Is anybody gonna do anything about this? Nope. Rove will probably get his own show now on Fox - you know, as a reward.
"Rove will probably get his own show now on Fox - you know, as a reward."
Or a column in the NYT's or WaPo - you know to balance out the SCLM leaning . . .
(sarcasm)
maybe rove can finger himself in prison. i'm sick of him and his self-proclaimed intellect.
or anyone else's. He will be punked, as he should be.
I think that we have seen, from Nixon to Shrubya, that high ranking members of the Republican party do NOT do time.
They are simply above the law.
I cannot wait to hear him spin this.
DUH!
...until Statute of Limitations ran out before ratting on that nasty pig Rove.
and illegal.
the same exact thing.
Do we have an extradition treaty with Paraguay?
Huh?
I went to the site to check the emails and it looks like they were shuffled like playing cards. Not in order in the least. Is this the way that Bush White House gave them to the committee?
Rove is gona get a VERY strongly worded letter now!
I wonder how many people were thrown in the slam today for smoking wacky tabacky?
We punish our evildoers, you betcha!
It's good to know that we are as smart as we thought we were, but I doubt we will ever hear a word about this anywhere but maybe on Keith's show.
Good. Now what are they going to do about it?
Probably nutin' honey.
Karl Rove should be behind bars, as well as Dick Cheney. Dana Perino was reportedly in shock saying that she could not breathe when the truth was revealed to her as well. Shameful and to think that they tried to hide behind a special immunity clause!
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com
Dana Perino isn't that stupid. She may not have had first hand knowledge but I don't believe she's shocked by it.
I just got a call from the RNC:
http://www.everycall.us/phone-number/1-480-60...
And they were doing a survey on abortion. I said that I was pro-choice, and they hung up on me.
Doesn't that skew the results of the survey? Why even bother; just make it up!
I told them I only supported abortion for republicans. Then I told her that I supported a constitutional ammendent on marriage that would only ban evangelical Baptist conservatives from marrying.
Just then my cordless battery died. Only time that's ever happened too!
only happens when close to SATAN!! I hear the Church Lady (Thanks Dana Carvey)
Thanks for the laughs I got from your post. Brilliant!! Thanks for skewing their minds.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
:P
Most excellent, Maude!
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Thanks for the laughs Maude!!
He was respected by his coworkers, employees and attorneys throughout the area.
Maybe that was it.
How about ILLEGAL?
To wit, in contravention of the Hatch Act of 1939,
The Hatch Act was a Republican reaction to FDR's New Deal. Per Wikipedia, "the political clout of federal dollars nationwide in the midst of the depression was undeniable; even without malfeasance, programs like the WPA attracted votes." Well, du-uh. Give a man a job and let him put food on his family, yeah he's likely to vote for you! But obviously having partisanship enter into the supposed-to-be-independent DoJ goes into a whole different realm.
How about CRIMINAL?
To wit, the obstruction of justice on a hitherto unimagined scale.
My bad! Carl Hatch, the sponsor of the 1939 bill, was a Democrat. Quoting from the same Wikipedia article linked above,
A reminder that there was a time when America's political class was capable of acting out of principle and in a non-partisan manner.
Chairman John M. Conyers Jr. has proven that it was happening in the WH and that it was illegal! yes and now that it is expose after years of lying what will happen????????
Nothing, only a job on FOX.
Democrats have no spine and are becoming useless. I can count only a handful that are making the rank but because they are new, they have no real power.
It is time for "time limit" in both house, as well as their medical end with their term. No pension as they are servicing their "beloved country".
I guess they allready protect themself from loosing their great medical paid by the stupid sucker like us in anything they will vote on.
I am coming home from Belgium next week, they do have one of the best medical system. My sister extra payment for private room in EU is 400.00 a years. I was paying that each month for that 6 years ago.
Great. We will likely have public congressional hearing this fall on the matter of obstruction or conspiracy to obstruct justice, maybe even contempt of congress for three political operatives.
Great. WHAT ABOUT FUCKING TORTURE?
Gosh, I sure am glad Nancy F. Pelosi took impeachment off the table while these criminals were doing this. It's not like everyone saw the smoke and knew there was a fire. (Hey, speaking of which, what do you suppose was in those files that randomly caught fire in Cheney's office back in '06?)
Put these motherfuckers in jail or they will come back and do this again. Hell, some of them are Nixon retreads.
War of agression according to NUREMBERG the ultimate CRIME as very well put by TRN in this recent interview to Ray McGovern
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
Not even a sternly worded letter.
should be prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated. They, and their many cohorts, are largely to blame for the economic and political situation we find ourselves in today.
Prescott, GHW and GW bush are scum....green pond scum!
How dare you disparage pond scum like that? Green pond scum serves a vital purpose. Those ponds aren't going to eutrophy themselves.
sues Harriet Myers and KKKarl Rove in civil court for every effin' penny those two fuckers are worth! For wrongful dismissal and whatever else he can sue them for!
He's gonna have to. Because the goddamned Democrats won't do a freaking thing about it!
Hell, if they did miraculously prosecute the fat tub of goo and convict him, he would simply not show up to serve his time. Executive privelage you know.
Instead, he would show up on David Gregory's "friendly Sunday show forum," and complain about how the libruls' was being so mean to a real murkin' who was simply trying to protect us from democrats, I mean terrorists.
And the teabagger morons would hit the streets again in KKKarl's defense, in order to stop them libruls from destroying our constitution.
that didn't work for Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. If ever anyone had a slam dunk case against Rove, it was them.
And please, can we refer to Mr Gregory by his tribal name: "DancesWithWarCriminals"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdvHwtRdg_I
Awwwwwww. Too bad, Dukie boy.
I'm just shocked to hear that the Reslugs in the Bush administration were corrupt, criminals.
Everyone with a BRAIN knew this! No one is going to pay a PRICE for anything, from lies to torture to murder to THIS! No one is ever going to pay a price for the over 5000 dead soldiers and 10s of thousands wounded for NOTHING BUT LIES! No one's ever going to pay for tanking the economy and the theft of trillions from ordinary peoples' retirement funds and plundering their life savings. Instead of making restitution, the thieves get bonuses for jobs WELL DONE!
Our politicians and our waste of "law enforcement" let everything GO because it's THEIR buddies up their on the chopping block and down the road they may need a "favor" from one of them in return for turning the other cheek.
The Constitution expressly forbids the invasion of a sovereign country in order to gain control of it's natural resources, and yet this is exactly what we did in Iraq. We invaded Iraq because, and ONLY because Hussein wouldn't play NICE with Bush/Cheney's American OIL buddies. AND our "leaders" only recognize another country as a "sovereign country" IF it is a phony "Christian" nation whos leaders BOW to the superiority of America's phony JESUS ARMY, with the military "leaders" sending the troops out to "Kill Muslims for JESUS!"
Why waste another DIME on hearings that will NEVER go anywhere?
If one of Dick the Scum Bag Armey's GOONS ever takes a shot at Obama the GOON SQUADS won't taser him, won't arrest him, will probably give them/him a MEDAL of FREEDOM that worthless piece of JUNK Bush used as rewards for ALL his worst actors in the WAR ON AMERICANS, as he worked his way up to DICTATOR IN CHIEF. He darn near made it and now the Rethuglican Party, the DEATH and DESTRUCTION Party, are waging war on everything AMERICAN to make us all SUFFER because they LOST to a "librul".
Unless, very unlikely, those "libruls" forget about their next election and use the time they already have guaranteed, to enforce the laws THEY WROTE AND OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WROTE, and start putting some people in prison where they belong, no one will ever be held accountable and next time the Right Wing Wackos get in charge, our country really WILL be doomed directly BECAUSE our "librul" Congress and "law enforcement" have emboldened them to the point of inciting violence across the COUNTRY.
WHAT A COLOSSAL WASTE!
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