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Bogden Confirmed -- Again -- As US Attorney
Justin Elliott | September 16, 2009, 9:48AM
US Attorney Daniel Bogden (NV)
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Daniel Bogden, who was fired by the Bush Administration in 2006 during its purge of US Attorneys, officially got his old job back yesterday as the Senate confirmed him by unanimous consent to be US Attorney for Nevada.
President Obama nominated Bogden for the job earlier this year. Nevada Senators Harry Reid (D) And John Ensign (R) each hailed Bogden in statements.
Reid's statement after the jump:
I am pleased that my colleagues in the U.S. Senate have confirmed Dan Bogden to once again serve as the U.S. attorney for Nevada," Reid said. "Dan is an experienced prosecutor who worked hard for Nevada before being wrongly fired. He has served Nevada with distinction in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Office, the Washoe County District Attorney's Office, and the United States Attorney's office, where he eventually rose to the position of chief of the Reno division. During his first term as US attorney, Dan was fired for refusing to bow to political pressure. By reinstating him the White House is ensuring that this dedicated public servant will continue to keep federal prosecutions in Nevada free from political bias.
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GTFOOH
September 16, 2009 11:37 AM
Take that Monica Goodling...
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HawkeyeD
September 16, 2009 1:15 PM
The Obama Administration has done a really good job of leaving nearly all the Bush Administration's Attorney Generals in place. This may show bi-partisanship, but it really doesn't provide incentive for people to campaign for you does it?
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barth
September 16, 2009 1:42 PM in reply to HawkeyeD
If people are campaigning for a presidential candidate to influence appointments in the Justice Department, they are no better than President Bush and his minions Goodling, Rove, Gonzalez and the like.
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merlot
September 16, 2009 1:38 PM
At last, some sweet justice arises from the injustice of the Bush DOJ. Justice is not supposed to either partisan or bi-partisan; rather, justice is supposed to be non-partisan. Bogden was fired because he did the honorable thing and refused to be partisan. Thank God the grown-ups have returned to the WH & the DOJ.
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Johann
September 17, 2009 9:16 AM in reply to merlot
So, when will all the other USAG's fired by Karl Rove be reinstated, or at least be offered reinstatement?
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Matt Jones
September 16, 2009 1:55 PM
OK, so everybody's agreed the firing was bogus. When should we expect to see the indictments for those responsible?
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Johann
September 17, 2009 3:49 PM in reply to Matt Jones
What? You really expect Washington insiders to prosecute Washington insiders? Once that starts there is no telling where it might end. It might even result in the eventual prosecution of all members of congress. The last I heard, taking bribes (even if in the form of campaign contributions) was still a crime.
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tokin librul
September 16, 2009 2:11 PM
Somebody please explain to me why we're supposed to be excited that Obama is re-appointing GOPuke.
And when they're done with that, explain to me why there are still over 70 Bushevik US Attys still in power?
And why the Rove-tainted ones in particular are still in office?
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Johann
September 17, 2009 3:52 PM in reply to tokin librul
That is "Change you can Believe in".
Every other President fired the USAG's appointed by the previous administration. Obama has "changed" that process.
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MT from CC
September 17, 2009 2:17 AM
A GOP prosecutor who refused to bow to White House political pressure in 2005-2006 is to be applauded, and is no friend of the anti-Obama fringe right GOP who deserve Dante's 10th level of hell. A prosecutor should be a no-nonsense, relatively hard-nosed, but scrupulously fair and honest, law enforcement type. This guy is obviously that.
That Obama tends toward the middle, and bipartisanship, and conciliation when he has the upper hand, can be seen as weakness, unpreparedness, timidity, genius, the price of genius, pragmatic, a betrayal, politically shrewd, for the best over the LONG RUN, or anything else the shadows on the cave wall tells you, but I think it is quintessentially Obama, and it wins over voters, even if it does not win over the puss-filled, fringe right congressional GOP with its transparently hyperpartisan, politically suicidal form of obstructionism. Just watch -- when corporate media predictions of Obama's decline prove a tad premature after more strong political vistories in 2010 and 2012, Obama will be in a position to do what is now far too difficult to pull off politically.
It's about winning elections. We lack standing to tell him how to go about doing that.
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Johann
September 17, 2009 9:23 AM in reply to MT from CC
"It's about winning elections. We lack standing to tell him how to go about doing that."
I disagree.
It takes "We the People" to win elections. That, in itself, gives us the standing to tell any politician how to win elections.
I have been patiently waiting for either political party to figure out that providing good government for the people will ultimately win elections.
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