Comments (43)

Scott L wrote on April 16, 2007 1:00 PM:

Maybe he could get a job with Ken Starr.

DiFi Fan wrote on April 16, 2007 1:01 PM:

Are there any manly men in the DOJ? Griffin, McNulty, Sampson, they all look like wusses.

phidda wrote on April 16, 2007 1:06 PM:

I wonder what the reaction of corporate counsels will be to these Bush DOJ appointees in the private sector. Are they damaged goods or totally damaged goods?

security code cold, like my blood.

Rebel wrote on April 16, 2007 1:18 PM:

Is Tyco hiring? McNulty could continue to follow Flanigan's footsteps.

Code word = "good" as in riddance.

Busta wrote on April 16, 2007 1:23 PM:

code: 'tooth', as in 'if you're long in the tooth, you don't work in this administration. Like Logan's Run.

Can we stop posting the stupid security words now?

Jay Severin has a small pen1s wrote on April 16, 2007 1:24 PM:

More like needs someone to cover his legal expenses. Maybe he can get a team of student lawyers from Regent University. Acquital by prayer.

Peter Duffy wrote on April 16, 2007 1:28 PM:

Take over from Dom Imus

RW wrote on April 16, 2007 1:32 PM:

This just reminds of the scene in the movie 'Titantic' the ship that couldn't sink and the rats who had already found a home in the ship are racing from the onrushing waters.

code word, bent...as in story

Hoyt Pollard wrote on April 16, 2007 1:33 PM:

Meet the new dean of Liberty University Law School.

Anonymous wrote on April 16, 2007 1:33 PM:

Gee wonder if Abramoff or those with close ties to him are in need of a lawyer with some inside knowledge...you know kind of like the Wang situation in LA. I'm sure he'll be rewarded handsomely by the culture of corruption republicans.

sc: glass, As in people who live in glass houses not only should avoid throwing stones, but their actions are viewable for the whole word to see.

RickinSF wrote on April 16, 2007 1:35 PM:

DiFi Fan
They look like wusses because they ARE wusses. Not very clever ones at that. They were put in place so that the GOP and their corporate lobbyists, et al, could roll over them at will.

code: "crime," like everything this admin. represents.

Mrs Panstreppon wrote on April 16, 2007 1:43 PM:

What we need to do is get something on Bradford Berenson, lawyer for Susan Ralston, Kyle Sampson and who knows who else.

Shouldn't be too hard (link below):

"From January 2001 through January 2003, Mr. Berenson served as Associate Counsel to the President of the United States. In the White House, he worked on a wide variety of legal, legislative and policy issues associated with the Bush Administration’s relations with Congress, its justice and domestic policy initiatives, and the war on terrorism. These included judicial selection, responses to congressional oversight and investigations, the USA Patriot Act, the Military Order authorizing the use of military commissions, detainee and anti-terrorism litigation, presidential action against terrorist financing, and the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security."

global yokel wrote on April 16, 2007 1:43 PM:

There was a time when hiring people like McNulty was attractive to corporations, because it would give them entree to the Bush administration. Now that the administration is damaged goods, McNulty may find that his stock has gone down...

EasyRider wrote on April 16, 2007 1:44 PM:

All fuckers will get great paying jobs and careers on MSM and radio shows.

Drits'n'Dravy wrote on April 16, 2007 1:45 PM:

If he is looking for work, I think he could get gigs as a celebrity lookalike for Ron Howard. Not sure how much call there is for that, but there you are.

workaday joe wrote on April 16, 2007 1:47 PM:

DiFi Fan says "They all look like wusses"

Yeah, it's weird isn't it? Kyle Sampson looks like my five year old nephew.

Isn't this called "overcompensation"? They have to prove they aren't the wusses they appear to be.

Dem-agog wrote on April 16, 2007 1:49 PM:

Shouldn't his new job be making license plates?

Will *anyone* be held accountable in this administration?

LnGrrrR wrote on April 16, 2007 1:54 PM:

Wow... there sure were a lot of people that planned on quitting, and just happened to quit AFTER scandals broke. How many coincidences is a trend?

jayackroyd wrote on April 16, 2007 1:57 PM:

Please stop using Politico as a news source. They've not shown themselves to be reliable, yet. They blew two major stories.

And they do seem to have a partisan pov.

Or, at least, their commenters think so.

Richard L. Adlof wrote on April 16, 2007 2:01 PM:

Rats and sinking ships . . .

trompeter wrote on April 16, 2007 2:02 PM:

I'd say he looks like good material for the Czar position at the WH.

Vulture Breath wrote on April 16, 2007 2:05 PM:

Surely Halliburton is hiring lawyers.

Austin Cooper wrote on April 16, 2007 2:16 PM:

Someone should mention to McNulty that there are pimps in the D.C. area, always on the lookout for a fresh face.

It's one more case of, "we've already determined what you are; now we're just haggling over the price".

rmadilo wrote on April 16, 2007 2:20 PM:

Perceived impropriety, where hast thou been?

Here is the question. Nobody has done anything wrong, this thing just wasn't handled well. But why is everyone resigning and taking the fifth in this case? Oh, because the wrong perception has been given. But the problem is that if this ability to realize that perception is important exists in these folks minds, from where did it come? It wasn't there over the last few years, so the only conclusion is that folks are resigning because of real problems. The logic comes back to bite 'em.

D WH wrote on April 16, 2007 2:20 PM:

All those Pat Robertson types have such large families to support.

bottomofthehill wrote on April 16, 2007 2:24 PM:

Funny, I thought the Republicans would want to keep him around as he is well versed in Impeachment proceedings. He ran the House Judiciary Committee as the Chief Counsel to Chairman Henry Hyde during the Clinton blowjobgate hearings. One would think he would know better than to lie to Congress. Ehat will we tell the children

bottomofthehill wrote on April 16, 2007 2:25 PM:

Funny, I thought the Republicans would want to keep him around as he is well versed in Impeachment proceedings. He ran the House Judiciary Committee as the Chief Counsel to Chairman Henry Hyde during the Clinton blowjobgate hearings. One would think he would know better than to lie to Congress. Ehat will we tell the children

Cheryl wrote on April 16, 2007 2:36 PM:

Well you know, once you get fired for hanky-panky in the loyal Bushie government legal business it's hard to find another job. In the real world the private sector expects results.

So being a kiss-ass political legal assistance for team "loyal Bushie" most likely doesn't qualify Paul McNulty for a gueling 70 hour a week job in the private sector legal biz. I mean, lets face it, Gonzales hasn't exactly demostrated his legal prowess. In fact, ass-kissing took Gonzales a long way, but the guys got no real legal talent, so that ass-kissing was cheapest, easiest way to get from point A to B.

So, unless McNulty friends are some of those lobbiest that have to hire on Bushies Republican has-beens and incompetent buds to some sort of cushie job, and, frankly there's got to be a limit to placing driftwood into law firms or boardrooms that have any serious cash flow, then...

Having the Bush administration on your resume and Gonzales as your boss is probably a real liability in trying to gettng a private sector legal position, that's why anybody who was anybody left the loyal Bushie legal department a long time ago.

rxbusa wrote on April 16, 2007 2:42 PM:

Not to mention pay his legal bills!

Mooser wrote on April 16, 2007 2:53 PM:

For optimum optimization, which will optimise, well, everything, just use the Secret Word as the last word of your comment. Works every time! No fuss, no muss. Go army!

tinbox wrote on April 16, 2007 3:07 PM:

jayackroyd is right. If politico is your only source, you shouldn't post. If have another source use it. I think you lose credibility when you link to Drudge satellites.

spritey wrote on April 16, 2007 3:21 PM:

April 11 2007

Kevin J. O'Connor, Connecticut's top federal prosecutor, agreed Tuesday to become chief of staff to embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose hold on his office has weakened amid accusations that he was involved in the political dismissals of U.S. attorneys.

O'Connor is scheduled to begin his new duties April 26. He will operate separately from the deputy attorney general and an array of associates who are responsible for litigation.

O'Connor replaces Chuck Rosenberg, who is returning to his job as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after six weeks as interim chief of staff. Rosenberg replaced Kyle Sampson, who resigned in March after acknowledging he hadn't revealed the full extent of his communications with the White House over the firings of eight senior prosecutors.

Hartford Courant

freepatriot wrote on April 16, 2007 3:50 PM:

let's see if I got this right

after a 24 year career in the federal government, including a stop as a US Attorney, this guy decides to resign just as he is caught in the worst scandal in the history of the Department of Justice BECAUSE HE WANTS TO CASH IN ???

what's he gonna do, write a book ???

I don't think this putz is planning on cashing in as a lawyer

maybe he don't know it yet, but that part of his life is OVER

I don't give a shit who gave him the bad information, this crooked shit was the one who parroted the lies before Congress

I smell DISBARMENT in this asshole's future

714Day wrote on April 16, 2007 6:28 PM:

Man, oh, man. Maybe the real reason for his imminent departure is the "evidence" that Andrea Koppel has of his poor performance; like the "evidence" she has that suggests that this is why the 8 U.S. Attorneys were dumped.
Sure wish she'd share.

varney wrote on April 16, 2007 6:35 PM:

Was McNulty rewarded w/ the Dep. AG position for his limiting
of the investigation into AIPAC after he got the indictments of Rosen and Weissman? Who in the admin got him the position?

webdems wrote on April 17, 2007 3:29 AM:

Goodness, he's been such a busy little FIXER over the years that it's hard to tell who might have gotten him that promotion. He coached Ashcroft through his nomination, he was instrumental in the FL recount, he was appointed to US Attorney in the Rocket Docket of Virginia where the WH sends cases that need "special" handling, yada yada. He's one of those insidious vanilla types who lie and cheat the people of their vote and their proper government.

Don Q wrote on April 17, 2007 7:57 AM:

Speaking of Republicans looking like wimps, is it me or does Kyle Sampson look like a cross between Alberto Gonzales and Karl Rove?

Go ask Alice wrote on April 17, 2007 7:34 PM:

Mrs. Panstreppon

It would surely be a coup to get something on Berensen. I suspect there is plenty of dirt to uncover, but he will be a slippery one to catch as I am sure he has covered his tracks well. From his on-line resume: he is Chairman of the Federalist Society and has been passed around the inbred MSM as an "expert" legal commentator/talking head for years on media outlets like Fox News, ABC, NBC, PBS and NPR. As such, he seems to be an integral part of the right-wing spin machine, parroting (or perhaps even writing) the insipid talking points that make us all fume (and/or gag) every time we hear them.

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