James Comey for AG? I don't think so after the crap he pulled on Jose Padilla, an American citizen. Comey is one of the reasons that Padilla, an American citizen, was tortured by his own government for three fucking years.

sad that that seems like a step up, no?
and lets not forget the treatment of Jessica Radack.

Patrick Fitzgerald for AG.

"and kept Comey, the #2 at the DoJ, ignorant that Sampson and the White House were targeting certain U.S. attorneys with the goal of firing them."

read: "What he doesn't know won't hurt us!"

bobh - for now. I don't believe Fitz is done. Notice in his remarks on the steps of the courthouse after Libby's trial that he did not say the investigation is closed, just inactive, and that it will become active again "should new evidence come forth".

Like maybe Karl Rove's RNC emails? (Somebody confiscate that damned server, NOW!!)

RE: thevineyard

He may also have been testing Comey to see if he was a "true loyal Bushie" in deciding who to keep and get rid of.

If that was the motivation, I wonder if he inquired with others for a list, to test their true loyalties.

Why are the democrats so quiet?

Especially about the DOJ investigations which effectively quash their attempt at offering immunity?

What strategy could they possibly use to move forward?

"Like maybe Karl Rove's RNC emails? (Somebody confiscate that damned server, NOW!!)"
Kestrel,it may be too late for some of those digits, that server was mysteriously disabled for a day, and since the Scientologists' software underlings owned it, there's no telling what occurred in that dark time.

'Especially about the DOJ investigations which effectively quash their attempt at offering immunity?'

Surely they wouldn't use the DOJ investigation to intimidate goodgirl Goodling? Why that would be cownright Rovish!

Gonzales and Mercer clearly committed an act of conspiracy, between inserting devious language into bills and emailing the Montana judge on the same day, how much more proof do we need that there was overt, and on-the-record conspiracy to defraud the American people?

After all the smoking Gonzaled guns, this one might just be shooting something other than blanks.

Sad commentary. Bush and Rove have destroyed the credibility of the Justice Department. We don't feel we can trust Fitz and Comey. If given a chance, they'll shade the truth and let Republican misdeeds slide if not obviously illegal.
The Umpire was hired by the home team, so the home team always gets the close calls. Sad , because this is not a game.

Last post, (I promise).

The Gonzales/Mercer intrugue should be more than enough grounds for impeaching Gonzales.

IMPEACH GONZALES, NOW! And do it quickly, a dozen subpoenas should be more than enough to busy these crooks in their own manure.

The timing is perfect.

Henry Waxman for Attorney's General.

Sandra Day O'Connor for AG

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the decide of lack of interest in this scandal in most of the nations newspapers? It seems to me that most of the editorial boards on what used to be decent papers have basically given up on informing their readership about the daily and growing scandals in Washington. Why is that? Pay off to the neo-Republicans for allowing consolidation of the nations newspapers by a handful of corporations?

fear as in yeah.

People keep in mind, that Repuglicans are incapable of telling the truth, I think they just like making the rich richer, not supporting veterans or the military or any social services or victims of Hurricane Katrina.

(Most Republicans never served in the military by the way).

Bushs' support stand at 30 percent of Americans. A breakdown of the thirty percent is as follows: one percent ulta rich and 29 percent rednecks.

Wake up thinking America and demand IMPEACHMENT of Bush to stop the madness.

People keep in mind, that Repuglicans are incapable of telling the truth, I think they just like making the rich richer, not supporting veterans or the military or any social services or victims of Hurricane Katrina.

(Most Republicans never served in the military by the way).

Bushs' support stand at 30 percent of Americans. A breakdown of the thirty percent is as follows: one percent ulta rich and 29 percent rednecks.

Wake up thinking America and demand IMPEACHMENT of Bush to stop the madness.

Mrs. Panstreppon and bobh,
Traditionally, most prosecutors are Republicans and most defense attorneys (including Rove's and Tom Delay's) are Democrats. That's sort of intrinsic to the jobs. I don't know of Comey's history with the Padilla case, but prosecutors tend to want the harshest possible sentence and Comey, no doubt, leans right.

Nonetheless, Comey is reported to have done four things for which we can all be grateful:
1. He is alleged to have been in the group at the DOJ that forced Ashcroft to recuse himself from the Plame investigation when it became apparent that his friend Rove was implicated and when Ashcroft started asking, inappropriately, for updates on the investigation.
2. He picked Patrick Fitzgerald to be the special prosecutor and set him up to have a broad mandate and guaranteed that he would be sheltered from interference.
3. He refused to reauthorize the NSA eavesdropping program when Ashcroft was in the hospital and his reluctance actually seems to have made Ashcroft hesitant about overriding him.
4. (Most important to me) in the few weeks between Ashcroft and Gonzales when Comey was the acting AG, he put out a memo forcefully rescinding the Gonzales torture memo; saying we are going to use the old standard for torture as it's commonly understood; and directing that the OLC was to give objective analysis of the law, not to advise the president on how to avoid prosecution for activities that would otherwise be illegal.

I would much rather have a Republican AG with the guts to stand up to people in his own party when they cross the line than a Democrat partisan who would "get Rove" even if there were insufficient evidence to prove that he had broken the law.

Codeword: bent, but broken would be more accurate.