Margaret Chiara was commended for carrying out Bush policy on firearms prosecutions in one batch of documents used to build the case to fire Carol Lam, yet in the end, it didn’t matter — she was also fired for political expediency. They can’t even come up with a reason for her dismissal that makes [...]
In the NY Times today, David Iglesias gives his side of the story. Iglesias was the US Attorney in New Mexico, and had an exemplary record (he had even participated in the peer oversight committee for all US Attorneys) until someone decided he should be fired. His editorial is reproduced here because of [...]
Tell me again that there was no orchestrated plan to push out US Attorneys? C’mon, Bush.
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From yesterday’s batch of DOJ-released documents, part 7-8, page 17, comes the smoking gun which proves that the US Attorney firing of Bud Cummins in Arkansas and replacement was politically mandated. Cronyism only? You make the call.
The documents leading up to this are a series of emails between Monica Goodling and [...]
From Document 1-8, page 11, letter to Sen. Harry Reid from Richard A. Hertling (Acting Assistant Attorney General):
The decision to appoint Tim Griffin to be interim U.S. Attorney in the Eastern
District of Arkansas was made on or about December 15,2006, after the second
of the Attorney General’s telephone conversations with Senator Pryor.
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Over 2000 new pages have been released. I’m reading them now.
Reading hint: Start at the back, read to front. There is so much duplication and so many multiple documents that you see the layering much better by reading in reverse order.
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