This man is SO going to jail.... A whole day of lies before the Senate.... Not even Satan can keep him safe.

Sampson says they used no consistent process or method to determine who was to be canned. They appeared to use rumor, disgruntled politicos, and word of mouth from acquaintances and collegues. They did not take into account the fate of the high profile and important cases, and they were not trying to quash or hinder political corruption cases. No records kept, no files, no reprimands for their supposed deficiencies....the AG himself says he has nothing to do with it but really did.

Leads one to the inevitable conclusion that one of two things was happening here. Sampson and his superiors and Miers and probably Rove are dirty as hell

or Sampson his superiors and WH counsel are completely incompetent.

I have to go with the former myself, the "I am sorry, we are all incompetent is just to pat."

I assume the DOJ has drawn up and indictment for his known lies to Congress (perjury) already? The grand jury should be meeting tomorrow?

Sitting here ruining my dinner by watching C-span tv re run of the heraings.
Just noticed how fast this guy lies..
In answering a question, he startd to add something, then said, never mind, I won't ....
Asked what he was going to say, Sampson immediately said, with perfectly bland face, that he had lost his train of thought.
Smarmy and anal retentive...uugghh.

Amazing... Your average fast food joint has a better paper trail for firing people than the Justice Department?

So far, Sampson's defense appears to be that he's a really, really bad lawyer, and that his boss employs the same practices.

Can't we just shit-can them now and try and convict them later? Because they haven't shown the qualifications to run a lemonade stand.

What's with the security code revelations? Is this part of some attempt to crack the dictionary?

What would you expect from one of the Poiliticians. They can't win. If they could tell the truth they would go to jail, but they can't tell the truth so they have to perjure themselves.

Furthermore, this quote also stood out as an important one for Sleuthing.

Mr. Sampson: “I personally did not take adequate account of the perception problem that would result,” he said.”

I cannot remember the email clearly, but somewhere in Muckraker there is an email regarding how the administration should prepare themselves for the inevitable push back from Career Justice Department people, USAs and the Political pushback. It was expected, and they had a strategy for avoiding it. If memory serves it was Sampson who wrote that email.

Just a tip, muchy mockers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rich29mar29,0,3371050.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Great editorial today by former US Atty (of 35 years) who supports Josh's theory: the DOJ under Bush is all about fixing elections.

Somewhere in Sampson's testimony in response to the "perception" issue Sampson blurted out that (to paraphrase) : they treated Republicans no different.

For a guy that claims politics never entered into this it was a strange remark. I kept waiting for someone to ask him how he knew the political party affiliations of the USA and no one did!

Nobody's going to jail. Not Bush, not Sampson, not this woman claiming the fifth. Know why? Because Bush will end up having his people create another distraction to prevent it from happening, whether it be a supreme court case, a scandal or a raise in the terror alert level. Any time something bad happens for the administration they use a distraction technique to get people to pay attention to something else.

If you have a problem with these tools lying to Congress, then you need to write to you Congress critter and tell them that you demand to see them held accountable. Otherwise nothing is going to happen. Better yet, pick up the phone and schedule an appointment to talk to your Congresscritter in person. They're much more likely to take you seriously if they're forced to meet with you face to face. It's harder to ignore a person than it is an email or a letter or even a phone call.