O.T. but David Kurtz just posted about Bradley Schlozman, former deputy chief of DOJ civil rights division. Schlozman is now the "Interim" USA for western Missouri. He replaced Todd Graves.

FiredUpMissouri.com has a great post about Schlozman who may actually be the first PA revision appointment. Oddly enough, I can't access the FiredUp website directly but the Schlozman post is in a Google cache.

I think David, Josh, Paul et al should take a look at the FiredUpMissouri Schlozman post so I pasted the link to the Google cache below.

The post also refers to a Salon story about Schlozman and voter suppression in Missouri that I haven't read yet.

A big reason for even considering replacing all the U.S. attorneys is to get control of the means of Democratic vote suppression. I believe that when they say a U.S. attorney was not "prosecuting enough 'vote fraud' cases," they mean the U.S. attorney is not willing to go along with tampering systematically with the elections machinery to cause Republicans to 'win' in swing states, places where Republicans are vulnerable, and anywhere that will assist in getting the Electoral College votes in the next presidential election. This is in addition to possibly prosecuting too many Republicans.

Jim, your harsh accusations are obviously based on little more than facts.

If Democrats let this slide, we might as well kiss everything good-bye. How much more proof will Bush and Rove need that they can do anything? A rubber-stamp Republican Congress was bad enough, a pusillanimous Democratic Congress is just as bad.

DOJ/Atty firings are all to do with the 08 elections. McClatchy has a great piece up about Karl Rove talking about 11 states that could be pivotal for 2008. Funny, they replaced 9 of those attys. from those states.

If you read PNAC, their theory is all about military dominance. This is all about getting set up to steal the 08 elections. What were PNAC’s authors main complaints about Clinton? Defense spending and that he didn’t do enough of it. So of course, this all makes sense now. 2006 elections brought it home to roost that the majority favor Dems. Rove et al have decided that the only way the Neo-Con (military dominance theory will work) is by stealing the 2008 Presidential election - why, I do declare, a nasty Democratic President would wipe out all their hard work these last 6 years.

Thanks to Lexie for pointing out what I thought was blatently obvious but seems to have slipped past many of the 'brighter' commentators.

While some of the firings have he distinct odor of obstruction of justice (which is the most obvious of the potential crimes in this case), I think we should take a much closer look at the 2008 electoral map to line up the firings with electoral college outcomes. Nice try Karl.

Anyone want to expand on this one?

Jim,

Yes, Cathie Martin was in Cheney's office as a press person. That was clear from the Libby trial. However, she moved over to the same position in the White House at some point.

PS - her husband, Kevin Martin, has been an FCC commissioner and is now the chairman.

Scolinos's November 21 observation of "one common link..." musing is the money quote. Lucky for her they weren't all along the northern border - weak protection against Canadian immigration would have been a tough sell.

We are now living under dictatorship.

Andrew Thomphon:

You might be on to something here. Although, it would be difficult to prove, shedding light on this might help in understanding the real motive for these dismissals.

Waiting in Texas is a cynic, but I think he is right, The 2008 and beyond elections is what this whole USA thing is about. Pack the judicial branch while you can, all levels; increase the 'gene pool' of Republican robots while intimidating the marginally ethical into dancing to Republican tunes; move up the chain over time--loacl and appellate judges, Supreme nominees---all the while bending the law to the will of the Party. If the Party leadership wants war, unitary executive, secrecy, sabotage of the opposition, coercion of public figures, thwarting of investigations---you name it--- the Party wants it all. Well-oiled, goose-stepping machine indeed.

I haven't had a chance to look at all these new WH emails, but are they strictly ones with the WH email address? Is anyone going to enquire (if they are) where are the ones from the RNC email addresses?

Now maybe the FBI can use some of these easy-to-use National Security Letters to get the external emails sent and received by the players in this matter.

3 things:

1. Excellent coverage in great detail over at
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org on the Attorney General folks, including a list of 14 who have never been confirmed. Much biographical/history of the fired attorneys...worth mining.

2. This is more than "just" the 08 elections.
The elections/control of Repub Congress is important to the grander scheme of unifying all of No. America ( the Canada-USA-Mexico thing)
that Bush has, independiently of Congress or anyone else, been working on.
Imagine the money to be made.
( and why is Cheney so very very quiet of late?)

3. The story on Bush legalizing "oversight" via his own political hacks in every Dept. of the Government is breathtaking.
from Robert Pear's Jan. 30 '07 article in the New York Times:

" in an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Bush said each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House thus will have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president's priorities.
This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that often have been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats. "

Sound just like what Gonzo wanted for the USA's...
The amount of thought and work that went into controlling/taking over the system is staggering...not mention really really scary.
We have not begun to uncover this...

The Friday doc dump reflects three phone conversations between DOJ officials and Sen. Pete Domenici on 9/23/05, 1/31/06 and 4/06/06. Interesting?

Also the exchange between Cathie Martin and Tina Scolinas noted in one of the above comments certainly enhances the suspicion that the concern about immigration enforcement was a pretext for the real reason for Lam's removal.

Where are the communications from the new USA's prior to their hiring?

The notes of meetings, calls and Blackberry's between Justice and the then prospective replacement USA's will most certainly reflect expectations of Justice priorities.

Justice surely has paper trails showing that the prospective USA's were told of Justice's expectations about focusing on immigration and office management or perhaps more sinisterly, that public corruption was not so much a priority.

What did these prospective USA's write or say to solidify their bonafides as company men for Bush Inc. prior to their appointments?

Shawn Harmon

As somebody pointed out above, here's the smoking email -- DoJ and WH "brainstorming" about the "reasons" to be given for the US Atty firings:

DoJ's Tasia Scolinos wrote on November 21 to the White House's Catherine Martin, little more than two weeks before the firings: "The one common link here is that three of them are along the southern border so you could make the connection that DOJ is unhappy with the immigration prosecution numbers in those districts."

Yeah, you "could make that connection" all right. Sounds truthy.

I think the poster who said this was about later elections is right. I was pondering all of this while in the bathroom, how appropriate, and the idea of "sleeper cells" came to mind. Rove & Co are trying to use all levers of government to destroy the ability to dissent. This was a long-term project that makes me wonder; what else are they up to & WHERE? Maybe we should all go over to the offices of the IRS and say hi. I mean, it's always about sex, money and power.

Quite frankly I've found this Dept. of Justice firings business very complicated, and a bit boring. Thankfully, Jon Stewart keeps us up to date in this video:
http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2007/03/jon-stewart-keeps-us-up-to-speed-on.html

If I were Kyle Sampson, I'd be in a WITSEC safehouse right now, and I bet he actually is! Ooops --

Oh no! Lookee who's in charge of WITSEC -- Sylvester Jones, former undistinguished low level flunky and first Black guy ever promoted to SES level in the USMS -- who has red flags all over that he's a "company man" too. They've co-opting *everything.*

So where's poor Kyle hiding out til next Thursday?

So, Gonzales says he doesn't remember a November DOJ meeting held just before the December attorney firings at which their firing was discussed?

Hell, who does he think he is...Scooter Libby?

I just wonder if Gonzales has also forgotten his involvement in the Texas re-districting fight several years?

He was white house counsel at the time, but his Texas Republican friends, Tom Delay and Gov. Rick Perry, pushed through a Republican-friendly/minority-unfriendly redistricting plan for Texas that for some reason reminds me of the U.S. Attorney purge.

And the DOJ's Civil Rights Division under John Ashcroft was involved. Or at least I should say, the career civil rights lawyers at the DOJ's Civil Rights Division ruled against the mid-decade Republican-generated Texas redistricting plan, but were told to STFU. In fact, these career civil rights lawyer's negative judgement about this Republican redistricting plan for Texas was suppressed.

Alberto Gonzales was involved. Karl Rove was involved. By law, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division had final say over any state redistricting plans and how they might affect the voting rights of all U.S. citizens. So, of course, the completely insane and unscrupulous neo-con Republicans told these division lawyers to STFU, essentially telling them: "Quit bothering us. Don't you see that we're in the midst of taking over America and subverting the U.S. Constitution?"...or something like that.

So, Alberto Gonzales the other day said he wants to keep his job as Attorney General so he can keep on protecting the kids. But, we all know the propaganda tricks used by the neo-con Republicans by now, so we must do all that is possible to protect the kids, and our grand-kids, from the likes of Alberto Gonzales, and his utterly corrupt neo-con pals.

Trying to see if I can link it

'Bush doesn't think America
should be an actual place'
By Joe Kovacs

LoriG

re: liberty being stolen from within

You are right 'this is the rise of the Reich' unfolding.' The purge is actually a purge of democracy. We are a nation built on a democracy based on the rule of law. He who controls the law controls the democracy.

Let's not forget that our system of governance relies on the law to make definite judgement. No matter what facts or evidence are available, it is the determination by and under the law that prevails.

Every single American citizen should be outraged and up in arms about the purge, the electoral system being effectively held hostage, and the politicization of the law to decide which cases will be prosecuted.

Karl Rove does not believe in a large majority necessitating who reigns. He always seeks the narrowest margin of majority 51%. That makes it far easier to duped the citizenry into thinking that it was a hard fought challenge but their side won, but they must be ever vigilant as the majority is whisper thin. Pretty soon the MSM, will start talking about how close the 2008 elections will be. Once the public beleives that it is so much easier to uphold any 'voter fraud' charges. Make no mistake however, we have been robbed of our democracy where all rights and freedoms have been vested in the power of the vote.

The scary part is that now that the masses are awakening from our long nationa1 nightmare we have no legal recourse. The legal system is corrupt. We have no legal means to enforce the law, once Guiliani 'perpwalk' is elected in 2008 we will live under martial law. Guiliani will not hestitate to do so as "America's Mayor" to protect the Homeland!!

In America THE LAW RULES..they stole the LAW

MLK said: " Never forget every thing Hitler did in Germany was legal"

So also it will be with the destruction of our American democracy.

Hey sagacious,maybe you might want to consider that right now even as we speak there are many ,many "David Iglesias " out there in the Federal Infrastructure going to institutional War with BushCo. The investigations are just kicking in full gear now. The Democratic Posse in the Senate & House now have career Federal Employees riding shotgun to make sure that BushCo cannot finish this Orwellian Putsche. Do not think for one minute that the Spooks at the sharp end of the Spear that are out there twenty four seven protecting us will let Turd Blossom take over. The Spooks are extremely pissed about Ms Plame.
The whole career federal employees will keep plenty of info flowing about the misdeeds of the Busheviks !
And also remember that all across the Spectrum of our national Polity We the People are speaking out . Go google ex Congressman Bob Barr's rants about BushCo .( to put that in context remember too that Cong Barr is an ex field officer for the CIA & founding member of the ex officio Impeach Clinton Congressional Committe for lying about a bj- )
No sagacious take a deep breathe , go microwave some Jolly Times - and settle in for how We the People take back our Country -its called Checks & Balances and has worked for around two hundred years - and can even defend the Republic against Turd Blossom !

Chuck Hegel

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