Whatever they are doing this for would have to be nationwide and relatively short term.

One plausible explanation is that these new US Attorneys could choose to decline/prosecute some key cases in the pipeline right now -- from the myriad state cases against illegal eavesdropping, to the various Bush and Republican crony crimes to Constitutional cases like the "Denver Three."

See article in local free weekly about Kevin Ryan:
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-10-04/news/feature.html

Had some allegations of bad management, appointed for political reasons. (by Bush earlier.)

But interim appointments should still be reviewed!

Another nail in the coffin of the U.S. of A. See W will need all the help he can get when he declares himself President for Life ( he can't trust anyone else to fight the War on Terror ).
He thinks his number will go up as soon as we are out of Iraq (when his Oil buddies get the consessions they want out of the "so called" Iraqi Government ) and into Iran.
Another "I" country and more Oil for Friends of Bush...

All of these, except Arkansas, are in the Ninth Circuit.

Arkansas is in the Eighth. Also, probably no connection at all, but Thomas Heffelfinger, US Attorney for Minnesota resigned last year in Feb or March.

Eric: New Mexico is actually in the 10th Circuit.

"Eric: New Mexico is actually in the 10th Circuit.

Posted by: Steve"

Oops. The tenth, huh? I better go hire local counsel right away! ;)

The only thing suspicious is that they didn't receive the Medal of Freedom.

Let me guess: Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico are somehow related to Lubrigate at the Department of the Interior, San Diego was all about Cunningham and Arkansas is gearing up to do more crotch shots of Hilary Clinton. (I think she's the cleanest candidate to date. God knows, we've examined every milimeter of her life and have found nothing but what's a campaign season without a made up scandal? Maybe she overbilled a client once and didn't correct it right away. Maybe she didn't have Chelsea in her carseat properly. Maybe she tried to talk her way out of a speeding ticket. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of HRC. And if they can't find anything, they'll just make shit up. Is Susan McDougall still living in Arkansas? Yeah, let's throw her back in jail for awhile.)
What's up in Seattle and San Francisco? Is there a Boeing scandal coming up? Too many lattes?

Tennessee: James Vines replaced by interim US Atty
Craig Morford in November

Something goofy happened here in Minnesota, as well. Thomas Heffelfinger resigned in February. An interim US Attorney was named by Justice.

Then, nobody bothered to get the Senate approval scheduled for a vote. Not even the candidate, one Rachel K. Paulose, really seemed interested in it. She didn't even do the customary meeting with the US Senators from Minnesota. Finally, right at the end, with the nomination close to expiring, Sen. Norm Coleman got it up for a vote, which was unanimous.

http://coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=1176&Month=12&Year=2006

Anyway, it was peculiar how this all happened. Why did Ms. Paulose not really seem to care about pushing her nomination along? It was as if she thought that she didn't need Senate approval. Looking at this new law, maybe she didn't.

They need friendly AGs to defend all those habeus corpus appeals once they start filling up all those Halliburton-built internment camps.

Charlton in AZ says he's resigning after long service to return to private practice. This is quite possible - he's been doing the job since his predecessor, the Democrat Janet Napolitano became governor.

this should be added to The List:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002175.php

anon,

Yes, Saturday Night Massacre - thanks.

what do you think of this behavior then?

hmm...why fire prosecutors? my guesses would be:

San Francisco = Pelosi muckraker
Nevada = Harry Reid muckraker
San Diego = Cunningham scandal ringer
New Mexico = in case Bill Richardson becomes a threat?
Arizona = "still kinda iffy on him"
Little Rock (Ark.) = Hillary muckraker

JC:

Unusual that there seem to be so many at once;

it warrants attention if USAs overseeing politically sensitive investigations are forced out; the actual cases will generally be run by assistant US attorneys, therefore the question is what happens to the case under the new boss?

In that regard, it warrants special attention if USA candidates with strong political affiliations (e.g. Arkansas) are placed in their positions via interim appointments w/o Senate confirmation.

Something happened to what I just posted. I was referring to the previous post about Paul Charlton.

As a criminal defense lawyer I can tell you that Ryan has been a disaster leading the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco. He had no respect inside or outside the office. The only wonder is that he was not replaced a long time ago.

Don't forget that the US Atty in Colorado was recently replaced by Troy Eid, formerly of the Greenburg Traurig office there.

David Igelsias in NM was replaced because he failed to win a decisive victory in the corruption case involving the former state treasurer, a Hispanic Democrat, and I beleive the feds have perhaps one or two more such cases in the pipeline. Both of the two leading candidates are white males, which makes AZ look progressive in comparison. You can almost hear the powers that be here saying "we had a minority, but he didn't work out."

I hope this shows up on network news. Very creepy.

Is any prosecutor in the New York City area going or gone?

what does a regular person do to help fight this nonsense. How can I help stop this.

The last Patriot Act passed had a little known law in it. This new law allows for the President to appoint new US attorneys for an INDEFINTIE period (used to be limited to 120 days) before any confirmation hearings are held to OK them. He is now forcing out US attorneys who might uphold the rule of law with cronies who will go easy on the criminals soon to be indicted (most of us hope) from his administration. Just another blatant shredding of the constitution. Have you also heard about the attack on grassroots organizations; anyone reaching 500 people or more over the web as in BLOGGERS will have to file a report as a lobbyist and could be jailed if not, while big lobbyist orgs. will be free to continue buying politicians and won't have to report about it.
Watch out also for the new hat crime bill, another bill to curtail first amendment rights. ( I could get jailed for calling 'neoconservatives' 'Zionists')

If Bush isn't the antichrist then the puppet handlers of this moron have to be. It is alarming to watch centuries of values, laws and our constitution simply being extinguished by this criminal. Our complicit media and complacent populous is directly responsible for this ongoing destruction of America. Bush's actions are indistinguishable from Hitler's in the thirties. German's also wanted to look the other way while the country was led by this despot. Bush is an even greater danger, with nukes under his control, our and other countries stand to be wiped of the face of the earth. Is this worth not standing up to Bush and having him impeached for any number of his criminal acts?

jonny1

Maybe it's just politics. You play ball with me, or I'll take the bat and hit you over the head. If that is the case, is there room for any anti-political U. S. Attorneys? Maybe, all new U. S. Attornets are taking an oath !!!!

I can't believe the libs are still using the Hitler v Bush comparision. Come people! Grow up! You sound like a bunch of junior high school, semi-literate MTV goof offs! What crimes has Bush committed? If he has committed crimes, then by god start prosecuting him! If you can't find anything to prosecute, then do us all a favor and be quiet.

Clinton assumed that ALL US Attornies were dispicables and FIRED ALL, knowing that NO sorry liberals remained.
Bush knew that some US Attornies,having been appointed during Clinton were dispicables but not over 99%...kind of a "Pillar of Salt" thing. Democrats ruthless...Republicans merciful...and getting spoonfuls of Shiite for being decent.

Dear Congress:

Although I am glad to see you rushing in to protect our wrongly fired U.S. Attorneys, I must ask you - WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? The very same political network, “good old boy clique,” that fired these attorneys, has been around for years attacking other federal government employees who dare to speak out against wrongdoing. Yet you, dear Congress, have done nothing to protect these brave souls who dare become National Security Whistleblowers.

Currently there is no real whistleblower protection for government employees on the front line of our national security (Border Patrol Agents, Customs Agents, Transportation Security Agents, etc.). Many of these government employees have endured wrongful firings, harassment, threats, and other retaliation on an enormous scale for simply doing the right thing. They have witnessed extreme instances of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption that they are required by law to report. For many of them, what they have witnessed are criminal acts by their mid-level and sometimes very high-level managers. If they don’t report these abuses, they the employees may be criminally charged with a felony (Misprision of Felony). Yet when they do the right thing, the whistleblowers are most certain to be severely retaliated against by the people benefiting from the wrongdoing.

Moreover, this has been documented and presented to Congress repeatedly by numerous organizations like The Government Accountability Project (GAP), the Project On Government Oversite (POGO), and the Patrick Henry Center. All three of these organizations list scores of National Security Whistleblowers that have testified repeatedly before Congress in different forums (e.g. the 911 Commission; the Blue Ribbon Commission; Whistleblower Counsel). Yet the Whistleblower Protection Act that was authored and sponsored by Senators Akaka and Grassley, and has passed the Senate, sits idle for months now on the House floor.

As you rush to protect these more powerful federal government employees (U.S Attorneys) who are often hand picked by their home state Senators, remember, there are others who have suffered much more because they have risks much more via the national security issues that they have reported. I doubt that these U.S. Attorneys will have to file bankruptcy because they are being “blackballed” by corrupt government officials, in the same way that National Security Whistleblowers do. I doubt that these U.S. Attorneys will fear the threats and intimidation to themselves and their families; repeated frivolous internal affairs investigations; the passing over of earned promotions, and numerous other tools that government managers have at their disposal to discredit whistleblowers and SHUT THEM UP.

Yet you, Congress, point the “Political Finger” at the folks who have fired these U.S. Attorneys, while you sit and allow much worse behavior to continue for others. Maybe someone should wave that same “Political Finger” back at themselves. Why is it that the U.S. Attorneys have been given preferential treatment over other government employees who, quite frankly, have put their necks much more on the line for this country than the U.S. Attorneys?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that the firing of these attorneys is political, morally wrong, and perhaps illegal - BUT SO WHAT! Why are you rushing to their aid over the dead bodies of National Security Whistleblowers who were also government employees - and I do mean literally dead bodies. Numerous whistleblowers have had their lives so destroyed by doing the right thing, that they have died of heart problems due to stress, and/or have committed suicide. The whistleblower cases that I have witnessed, including my own, are much more egregious and appalling than what has happened to the U.S. Attorneys. One may conclude that the answer to this question is that U.S. Attorneys are simply more powerful in their positions, and can be of more assistance to Congress in said positions - hence fostering the notion that this sudden interest for Congress to protect them is merely POLITICAL! Therefore, while you waive the “Political Finger” at this administration for firing these attorneys, please take a close look in the mirror at the other end of that very same finger - which is pointing straight back at you! I would encourage you to provide protection to ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, not just the influential ones.

Sincerely,

Darlene Fitzgerald
National Security Whistleblower & proud of it
Author: “BorderGate, the story the government doesn’t want you to read”
www.BorderGate.net

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