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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Sunday Talking Head Thread |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 8:15 am |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Judicial Issues, Sunday Morning Talk Shows |
| (Photo of iced coffee via Kanko*.) The Sunday Talking Head line-up is ready for the reading the morning. Based on the scheduled guests, it looks like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his tenuous relationship with honesty will be Topic A for most of the shows. Jane at FDL and Anonymous Liberal, along with Emptywheel at Next Hurrah, have |
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| Firedoglake: Unacceptable Vacancies Put Us At Risk |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 2:47 pm |
| Tags: Gop, Us Attorneys Purge, Scandals, White House, Alberto Gonzales, George W Bush |
| . Among the 93 United States attorneys, who serve as the chief federal prosecutors for their regions, there are 24 vacancies. The White House has announced nominations for only six of those offices, which means that several of the jobs may remain unfilled for the rest of the Bush administration. (emphasis mine) This is not an approval from |
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| BREAKING: House Democrats Introducing Bill To Investigate Impeachment Of Alberto Gonzales |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 4:35 pm |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Scandals, White House, Alberto Gonzales |
| MSNBC just reported that Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) announced he will be introducing a bill tomorrow that would require the House Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment investigation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. At the beginning of the report MSNBC’s Chris Jansing says this bill was being presented by a group of House Democrats, |
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| Colbert Defends Gonzales |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 5:15 pm |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Scandals, The Colbert Report Stephen Colbert, Alberto Gonzales |
| “Fair and balanced” FOX News had a hard time finding someone to defend the embattled Alberto Gonzalez on FNS. They should have called Stephen… Download (533) Play (682) Download (216) Play (417) |
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| Rove Refuses To Testify |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 9:33 am |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Scandals, The Senate, White House, Karl Rove |
| in the firing of nine US Attorneys, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said late Wednesday.The Senate Judiciary chairman chided the White House for allowing Rove to give public speeches about the attorney firing scandal but not permit his testimony under oath. “Mr. Rove has given reasons for the firings that have now been shown to be inaccurate |
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| The Hill's Karen Hanretty And Her Awful Appearance On Hardball |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 8:40 pm |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Msnbc, Nsa Wiretapping, Plame Case Pat Fitzgerald, Hardball Chris Matthews |
| I scour the cable news shows nearly every day and I have to say that this performance by The Hill’s Karen Hanretty on this evening’s “Hardball” has to rank as one of the worst and most annoying I’ve seen. Hanretty became highly perturbed when host Chris Matthews and Ezra Klein from The American Prospect dared to |
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| US Attorney Christie Lies, Media Yawns |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 1:51 pm |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Liars, Media Criticism |
| Blue Jersey has been so impressed by the response that can be generated by the blogosphere holding media accountable that they asked me to pass on this action alert: Blue Jersey: Last week we caught Chris Christie in a pretty blatant contradiction in stories he’s told to reporters, so blatant that we feel comfortable calling it a lie. No |
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| Bradley Schlozman Admits GOP Loyalty Test For Prospective Prosecutors |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 10:11 am |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Scandals |
| to hire assistant U.S. attorneys on his own, as Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys are able to do. For that, he had to go through the central office, or in this case, Monica Goodling, the Department’s White House liaison. He’d “heard rumors,” he writes,”that Ms. Goodling considered political affiliation in |
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| Leahy moves forward with contempt citations for Bush aides |
| Published: November 30, 2007, 1:31 pm |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge |
| in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter and therefore ruled illegal the president's executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff, John Bolten, and former adviser Karl Rove. Leahy directed Bolten, Rove, former political director Sara Taylor and her deputy, J. Scott Jennings, to comply immediately with their subpoenas |
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| Remember Bradley Schlozman? Possible Perjury |
| Published: June 18, 2008, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: Us Attorneys Purge |
| Remember the U.S. Attorney purge scandal? The travesty in which the White House and the Justice Department politicized federal law enforcement? It was, for my money, among the biggest Bush-related domestic scandals of the last eight years (top three, at least). It is not, however, quite over yet. Justice Department lawyers have filed a grand-jury |
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| Karl Rove Fled The Country To Avoid Congressional Hearings |
| Published: July 12, 2008, 10:00 pm |
| Tags: Corruption, Crooks, Gop, George W Bush, Hackery, Investigations, Karl Rove, Liars, Mbalibbytrial, Plame Case Pat Fitzgerald, Scandals, Us Attorneys Purge, White House |
| Perhaps Turdblossom got a little nervous that Democrats might actually locate their spines and charge him with inherent contempt and have him arrested? Video and more from Alternet: Karl Rove was scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. He didn’t show. Not only that, the Committee was told that Rove had left |
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| Fired US Attorney David Iglesias: Rove Skipped Testimony to Avoid Indictment |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 9:45 am |
| Tags: Karl Rove, Us Attorneys Purge, David Iglesias, Justice Department, Politicization |
| one of the eight US Attorneys forced out of their jobs by the Bush administration for failing to pursue bogus politically-motivated prosecutions, appeared on “Morning Joe” Friday to promote his new book, In Justice, and offered his thoughts on why Karl Rove ignored a Congressional subpoena and skipped town in order to avoid |
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