he even looks like Rove. Creepy.

The world already has one too many Karl Roves.

As each part of the Bush gang's onion keeps getting peeled away this looks more and more like its Watergate deja vu....

....it may also be a version of the Domino Theory.

The focus of preparation efforts was on why the U.S. Attorneys had been replaced, not how.

This seems to me like a distinction without a difference.

Patience, the distinction between 'why' and 'how' is paramount. It is the difference between (illegally) perverting justice for partisan ends and merely mishandling a routine personel reshuffling. The White House would like all of us to focus on the 'how'. I am amazed at how the majors continually refer to this affair by the thumbnail phrase 'controversy over the mishandling of US Attorney firings' (front page of yesterday's NYT for example, but you see it in every story). Shame on Kyle for mentioning the darned 'why' again!

I would love to see Congressmen Waxman and Conyers invite Sampson to come before their committee hearing to "correct the record" regarding his role in the firings and that of those Sr. White House officials.

Is Karl Rove Jr. a tax cheat or what? You have to go some before the IRS slaps a tax lien on your property. Maybe Kyle Sampson is counting on GWB to forgive all back taxes due from Republicans before he leaves office.

Sampson is a weasel:

"He resigned because, as Chief of Staff, he felt he had let the Attorney General down in failing to appreciate the need for and organize a more effective political response to the unfounded accusations of impropriety in the replacement process."

No, he resigned because he got bagged lying about why the USAs were fired.

"The focus of preparation efforts was on why the U.S. Attorneys had been replaced, not how."

We now know that the preparation efforts focused on putting together a pack of lies for Congress about why the USAs were fired.

I wonder if the delayed document dump has anything to do with the question of whether emails from gwb43.com, georgewbush.com and other RNC domains are part of official WH records.

Oops! Here is the link to the TPM MR item about the 71 employees of the Executive Office of the President owing more than $660,000 in back taxes:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002359.php

Has anyone checked out the bio of Sampson's attorney, Bradford A. Berenson?

http://www.sidley.com/lawyers/bio.asp?ID=9406

Berenson is a lowlife piece of crud who made a handsome living as a consultant on the ten-year, $21 million "independent" investigation of Henry Cisneros.

Berenson also was Associate Counsel to the President from January 2001 to January 2003. I wonder if Berenson rendered a legal opinion on the legality of using the RNC email servers for official WH business.

Oh..I get it.
It's one of those contests.
" Collect all 10 of Sampson's resignation letters and win the Grand Prize....an original copy of Gonzales's first resignation letter".
Guess the 3rd one is coming Monday, right?

TPM has done a great job on this issue, but it's got to move on now to the larger implications of what's happened at DOJ, since it was destroyed by Ashcroft and Gonzales. It's not about the 8 anymore. They are history. What about the remaining 85?? What have they been doing? Today's Pittsburgh story is probably only the tip of the iceberg. I recall some major, major investigations of the DNC in the first years (2000-2001) of Bush. They all went away after 9/11, but there were a lot of them. Then there's the FBI snafu, the tax investigation of NAACP Legal Fund, etc. etc. Keep it up TPM!!!

If this were part of the Star Wars saga, they'd put Sampson in as the apprentice -- Darth Maul or Count Duku -- to Rove's Sith Lord.

Is tubby, bald and myopic the new face of evil?

From reading the above postings, I conclude I am the only one who has ever met Kyle Sampson. While our relationship has been casual, I have had numerous opportunities to hear him speak among friends, and can assure you that he is neither a "weasel" or anything like it.

Despite having one of the brightest legal minds of his generation, he is nothing but humble about his service in the highest places, and considers it an honor to have had such opportunities.

He is one of the most moral, honest people one could know. Period. To say otherwise simply shows that you quite literally don't know of whom it is you speak.

Despite having one of the brightest legal minds of his generation, he is nothing but humble about his service in the highest places, and considers it an honor to have had such opportunities.

He is one of the most moral, honest people one could know. Period. To say otherwise simply shows that you quite literally don't know of whom it is you speak.

Posted by: SRK

Yes, I am sure that is why he is lawyered-up to the gills, and has parsed and re-parsed the meaning of "is", and probably will again.

If your "casual" acquaintance is the high-minded American of which you speak ("... the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known"?)... perhaps it wouldn't be asking too much for him simply to tell the truth about these people, and cut the damned crap?

You can always find someone so easily impressed by a con artist they think that the definition of "genius" is a willingness to break any rule.

Another word for that is "crook".

Kerry on Fox News Sunday made a lot of sense today, both on the Purge and Iraq.....

Made that point that just because USAs are political appointments doesn't mean that they can be controlled by politicians. It means they are appointed by politicians, who thereafter cannot intervene in a given case and exercise political clout.

And he observed that, under the Democratic withdrawal plan, it will be the beginning of the sixth year of the War before the troops are out.....

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