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Dem: Rove "Needs To Try Harder"
Reaction from Rep. Linda Sanchez, the Chair of the House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, to Karl Rove's comments today:
Judging from his confusing and blatantly false distortions, Karl Rove is apparently trying to prove that he knew nothing about why these U.S. Attorneys were fired. For instance, his statement that Carol Lam "refused to file immigration cases" - when her office actually had the second highest number of immigration prosecutions in the country - demonstrates almost complete ignorance on the issue.Unfortunately, he needs to try harder. I would love to hear Mr. Rove's explanation for why U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins was fired to make room for one of Mr. Rove's former aides.
I am working with House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers to cut through the multiple excuses and get to the truth of what happened. Our hearing earlier this week raised significant concerns about who is making the decision to fire federal prosecutors and why they are doing it. Today, we sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding additional information, including relevant documents and interviews with key officials.
I'll have details on that letter shortly.
Comments (11)
Arkansan wrote on March 8, 2007 5:55 PM:Where is the legislation to require senate approval of the new US Attorneys?
elrapierwit wrote on March 8, 2007 7:56 PM:Alrighty, now!!! Tell it!!
I have glad you are working with Conyers, from my home district. Conyers, knows his stuff.
MS. Sanchez, I love the way you talk. Rove should never have been given the opportunity to address this issue as if he was someone of importance or had expertise about any of this.
Second highest number of immigration cases prosecuted in the nation!!!! Take that bushesturdblossom
Please do not allow these people to detroy our democracy, which is built on the rule of law.
Without the governance of laws we have no democracy.
Bush is destroying this nation.
Gonzales and Yoo deserve nothing but all the contempt and legal prosecution you and Conyers can bring to bear, and still it will not be enough for their violation of our civil liberties by sanctioning torture and opposing the right of habeus corpeus.
elrapierwit wrote on March 8, 2007 7:59 PM:Arkansan...
Schumer said he has reached agreement on that with Gonzales today. Gonzales said the WH will not oppose Feinstein's legislation. Look on the other Muckracker thread, for more details.
What?! wrote on March 8, 2007 8:09 PM:I hope that Ms. Sanchez asks the question I forwrded to her staff; Ask USA Danile Bogden, who authorized the 2 search warrants against Governor Gibbons friend Warren Trepp's ex-business partner. The one a Judge called "patently unconstitutional."
anatomist wrote on March 9, 2007 3:12 AM:Can someone comment on the substance of what Ms Sanchez is saying? At first I thought: "Wow. How refreshing to have a Democratic leader with really good staff research and a willingness to go for the jugular. But on second thought, I can't get my head around Rove being so easily eviscerated. It's like he made a point of going on stage with no clothes on.
Anonymous wrote on March 9, 2007 3:23 AM:Rove is just winging it. They're busted, he knows it, and they don't have much to spin. Besides, the Republican response was patch-worked by various goofs before Rove had a chance to feed everyone their lines and tell them the good lie as to why they did everything.
So he's kinda stuck with the multiple, conflicting, and basically goofy stories they've already committed to.
Besides, there's really only one good excuse for these kinds of firings, and that's performance. The obvious other altenative is that they're politcally motivated and designed to take advantage of the PATRIOT provision delaying confirmation hearings.
Which is pretty obviously how you'd run a corruption machine and basically damning of Gonzalez, Specter, and the Bush DoJ and WH.
They don't have any negative performance evidence, though I'm sure they're trying to gin some up. In the meanwhile, bald faced lies are all they've got.
Robin Boerner wrote on March 9, 2007 6:03 AM:Ms. Sanchez did a great job of chairing the hearings Tuesday. She was very professional but firm. I just hope she keeps on the miscreants.
LC wrote on March 9, 2007 9:58 AM:A couple articles regarding Lam:
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061223/news_7m23lam.html
http://www.sddt.com/Commentary/article.cfm?Commentary_ID=176&SourceCode=20070118tza
LC wrote on March 9, 2007 10:24 AM:Here's another one:
Richard L. Adlof wrote on March 10, 2007 6:53 PM:http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070121-9999-1n21lam.html
Has anyone looked into the memory issues that are so prevalent throughout the current Administration . . .
Do you think there is mold in the Westwing or something? Are they all black-out drunks and propellant-huffers?
Inquiring minds wanna know . . .
powwow500 wrote on March 15, 2007 10:53 PM:Go Sanchez! This is great.