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Fired USA Addresses Moderate GOPers
From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
At their annual convention here, members of the statewide organization of moderate and center-right Republicans clapped enthusiastically when McKay, the former U.S. attorney for Western Washington, declared that the "enormous power" vested in federal prosecutors "cannot be associated with partisan politics."...He said he and at least five of the other fired U.S. attorneys compared notes and concluded that "if we did remain silent, we were part of the lie, so that is why I spoke out."
Since then, McKay added, "senior officials at the Department of Justice have compounded early misstatements with lies and with cover-ups."...
McKay said he has no intention of running for political office, as some have speculated, and is troubled by the furor over the firings because "I felt this responsibility as a Republican (that) I did not want to be in the public arena handing spears to the Democrats to throw at the White House."
Nevertheless, McKay, the reluctant warrior, did hand a number of spears to Democrats. And in his speech, McKay singled out state Republicans who tried to get him fired for not bringing indictments in the wake of the 2004 gubernatorial election:
He referred dismissively to "cybercowards," apparently meaning conservative bloggers who have criticized the lack of prosecution, and scorned the purported evidence of election fraud alleged by Tom McCabe, the aggressive, conservative executive vice president of the Building Association of Washington and a Rossi supporter....McKay said the evidence McCabe presented was "a joke from an evidentiary standpoint that a crime had been committed. ... Every FBI agent who looked at the evidence and every federal prosecutor who looked at the evidence that the BIAW sent in concluded that it was completely, utterly insufficient to move forward in an investigation."
Thanks to TPM Reader SD.
Comments (10)
this guy wrote on May 30, 2007 5:46 PM:If I had a chance to speak to Mr. McKay regarding his being "troubled" by "handing spears to the Democrats to throw at the White House," I would tell him this:
You idiot. You didn't hand spears to Democrats to throw at the White House; you handed spears to Congress to throw at people corrupting the justice system and undermining the rule of law.
Sheesh, even the seemingly rational Republicans can't look at anything in terms of right and wrong. Everything is partisan.
Harry wrote on May 30, 2007 5:52 PM:Indeed. This person who says he needs to be above partisan politics still retreats into his party's fold on some level. Even when he has been given the rat tail file by operatives of his own party, sort of.
Ducky wrote on May 30, 2007 5:57 PM:hmmmmm What an odd little man. All that and a bag of chips too. WOW.
Anonymous wrote on May 30, 2007 6:01 PM:He had to put in the comment about the Democrats as disclosure for the crowd to take him seriously. This situation goes way beyond partisian behavior. This is a fundamental corruption of the American Legal system. Republicans as well as Democrats must speak out about this if we are to survive as a country. Otherwise, we become, as Rummie likes to say, a "Kleptocracy."
It is much harder for him to call out members of his party than for us to complain about them. They are/ were his friends and collegues. He risks loosing his friends.
So I give him credit. It takes balls to stand up like that. 'Cause he knows now he will be tarred and feathered like never before.
Uncle Montana wrote on May 30, 2007 7:14 PM:Mmmm, sounds kinda fishy to me. To be blunt, False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, State craft and Spy craft are cut from the same cloth. Their cousins.
In other words, a Dangle (in espionage speak) is an agent of one intelligence agency ideological model or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency ideological model or group. The operational doctrine and strategies. We now live in a meta-ideological era. In the words of one historically known "labor" President, "Trust but verify".
Uncle Montana wrote on May 30, 2007 7:21 PM:know
grr.. shoulda read: 'They're Cousins'.
Code word: Sharp, as in, not to sharp without my coffee. As ready myself for work.
JNagarya wrote on May 31, 2007 1:35 AM:"So I give him credit. It takes balls to stand up like that. 'Cause he knows now he will be tarred and feathered like never before.
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Date: May 30, 2007 06:01 PM"
He'll be tarred and feathered by very few. The majority of Bushit Republican'ts don't want to pour gasoline on the fire by provoking him.
Note that there have been few or no efforts to smear such as Iglesias and Comey? They are terrified of helping keeping the issue alive -- and of attacking those who may spill even more beans.
Mooser wrote on May 31, 2007 11:46 AM:Don't trust McKay! Kool-Aid, especially when administered with renumeration, is harder to kick than narcotics.
The chances he will are 'small'.
molly wrote on May 31, 2007 1:07 PM:I appreciate every tiny morsel of truth coming into our national political discourse. At some point, we have to start agreeing on the issues that we can...and there are plenty.If gay and abortion issues were not an issue, Ron Paul would be the most popular candidate for prez. And if reps. were elected for veracity and ability instead of what's in it for me....it would change the face of our govt.
gcd wrote on June 2, 2007 9:57 PM:What saddens me about John is his loyalty to the Republican party. John was fired unfairly but I am convinced that part of the reason for his firing was also due to the fact that he is gay. I am sure that, in and of itself, would have been taken as a threat by many in power. Can you imagine the horror of some (Cheny for one, I'm sure,) that they have given a gay man the position of U.S. Attorney of Western Washington? Think of the political damage that could do. I think his gender preference compounded with his refusal to investigate charges of election fraud sealed his fate. But his loyalty to the Republican party still confounds me. I will never be convinced otherwise that his gender preference did not have some influence in Gonzales' decision to fire him.