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New Senate Report On US Attorney Firings Finds Rove Helped Compile List
The Justice Department already found, in its report on the U.S. Attorney firings, that the White House engineered the firings, and that inappropriate political concerns had played in to several of the dismissals.
Still, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report on the episode today that goes a little further. Its "Majority" (that is, Democratic) section concludes:
The evidence...shows that the list for firings was compiled with participation from the highest political ranks in the White House, including former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.The evidence shows that senior officials were focused on the political impact of Federal prosecutions and whether Federal prosecutors were doing enough to bring partisan voter fraud and corruption cases. It is now apparent that the reasons given for these firings, including those reasons provided in sworn testimony by the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, were contrived as part of a cover-up.
In a separate section, several committee Republicans strongly disagreed with that view, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, took the opportunity to highlight allegations of voter fraud against ACORN.
The report was released to accompany contempt resolutions against Rove and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten passed by the committee last year. The two have refused to testify or provide documents to the committee as part of its investigation.
In a statement accompanying the report committee chair Pat Leahy, of Vermont, said:
The findings of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the course of its investigation into the hiring and firing of U.S. Attorneys have been echoed by the Justice Department's own internal oversight offices. Further, the White House's unsupported claims of executive privilege and immunity designed to shield the President's advisors from complying with congressional subpoenas have been rejected by the federal court.













It does not help when TPM uses the words "voter fraud" when speaking of ACORN...it is at best registration fraud (perpetrated on ACORN not by ACORN)..since that is what ACORN does..register people to vote...there is no crime or punishment for registration fraud...
Can Rove and company continue to hide behind Executive immunity in a criminal conspiracy case...I was under the impression a criminal investigation negated "Executive Privilege"
November 18, 2008 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed.
TPM, and other news outlets should examine the Republican talking points before spreading them over the internet. TPM has accused the Main Stream Media of just this type of behavior - spreading bogus Republican talking points as if they were actual facts.
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November 18, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, this is all very nice, but what will be the price for this behavior? Zip, zilch, nada, because it's time to "move on" and be "bipartisan."
November 18, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's hoping, so far in vain, that Pelosi will grow a pair of balls and go after some of these Republicans who have tried their best to destroy the 'rule of law' in America.
In my best "tin hat" thoughts, I have to wonder what GHWB discovered about the Democratic party leaders through illegal wiretapping while he was head of the CIA and how that is now being used to keep them in line with the Neo-Con and Bush family agenda.
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November 18, 2008 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, this is too much. The dissenting view at the end of the most recent report (http://judiciary.senate.gov/resources/reports/upload/11-18-08-USAttorneysReport-2.pdf) buttresses its claims of ACORN's malfeasance with citations of posts on www.powerlineblog.com.
November 18, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the democrats will continue to let these low-lives shit all over them. They will even let the likes of a, traitor in Senate, Lieberman help himself at this same pleasure.
Oh what fools the Dems continue to be!
Don't expect that change that you have fought for. Prehaps Wsahington has the status quo in mind.
November 18, 2008 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
As hard as I have looked, scant amount of any change at all to report.
November 18, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I give up on "The People" altogether.
I'm packing my bags.
So long, dyspeptic dems.
November 18, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a question I've been trying to find an answer to: If no charges have been filed, can Bush proactively pardon someone for any actions they've taken while serving his administration?
If not, then I'd just as soon have the Judiciary Committee refrain from acting until Obama is sworn in. That way there is some hope that Rove and others will be held accountable for their crimes.
November 18, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah it is quite annoying to keep heating the mantra from the news outlets both on TV and online repeat these three words "ACORN: voter fraud." It should read at best four words "ACORN: voter registration fraud."
But then again government statistics back up the claim that political operatives have been far more damaging to our electoral system by using such tactics, as phone jamming and voter caging to disenfranchise voters rather the contemporary/modern media creation of ACORN and voter fraud. They have been studying this stuff since the civil rights movement and have found very few cases which support massive voter fraud, yet for the last two months the average citizen knows more about ACORN and voter fraud (which is vastly over-stated if not out-right false) than they do about Vote caging or the infamouse GOP phone jammer.
And yet these same media outlets continue to think that 1) they are reporting just the facts, man or 2) informing the public of pressing issues.
November 18, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink