EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: US Attorneys: more evidence of politicizing the DoJ |
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It's like watching a tidal wave...
And a lot like watching that experiment from the 70's where a prof had students act as guards and shock each other. They went to unbelievable levels of ferocity. The is what the Bush Cadre has given us: an executive branch totally out of control, a military out of control at times. I said after Abu Graihb that it all flows from the top. When the boss says just get it done, that's what people do. When teh boss leads by example, people follow. (You knew this was coming when they went after McCain, then Kerry, etc., etc., etc.) The Constitution? Nothing. Bill of Rights? Nothing. Power? Everything.
It's endemic and epidemic. Oh, and it's about time someone with name recognition finally brought up the fiasco in Guam.
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Steve Benen finds more evidence that the real scandal with the fired US Attorneys were the ones who were allowed to stay...
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Federal judges Thursday ruled that former state purchasing supervisor Georgia L. Thompson was wrongly convicted of making sure a state travel contract went to a firm linked to Gov. Jim Doyle�s re-election campaign and freed her from an Illinois prison.
The three-judge panel in Chicago acted with unusual speed, ruling after oral arguments by Thompson�s attorney and the U.S. attorney�s office. |
The US Attorney from Wisconsin appears to have pushed this case right before the 2006 election as a means to implicate Gov. Doyle in a corruption case, and to bolster the candidacy of Republican Mark Green. On the flip...
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| It�s a major shakeup at the offices of new U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose. Four of her top staff voluntarily demoted themselves Thursday, fed up with Paulose, who, after just months on the job, has earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dressing down underlings.... |
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... * In New Hampshire, Democrats want Congress to investigate whether prosecution of a Republican phone-jamming scheme on Election Day 2002 was intentionally delayed until after the presidential election two years later.
* Did the U.S. Attorney�s office in Pennsylvania intentionally target Bob Casey allies to undermine his Senate campaign against Rick Santorum?
* Why was the career U.S. Attorney in Guam removed in 2002 after he started investigating disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff?
* Why has Western Pennsylvania�s U.S. attorney, Mary Beth Buchanan, spent a disproportionate amount of her time launching public-corruption investigations against Democrats, while overlooking Republicans?
* In July 2005, the U.S. Attorney in Denver decided not to pursue a matter in which bouncers at a Bush event impersonated Secret Service agents to throw out three law-abiding ticket-holders because of their bumper sticker (the Denver Three controversy). Did politics dictate the decision? |
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