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Thursday, February 10, 2011
U.S. attorney dismissals and continuous access of Karl Rove
With Wall Street's fate in the balance, and with Sarah Palin's incoherence sparking interest in Thursday Vice Presidential Debate, it was easy, a great story, get less attention than it deserves to see yesterday. The Justice Department released a nearly 400-page report with this stunning conclusion: "Our investigation found significant evidence that political partisan considerations an important factor in the removal of several U.S. attorneys were ...." Think of theControversy over the sudden dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys ... the Bush administration's long-cherished principle that justice should be administered in an impartial, non-partisan way ... Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ... Kyle Sampson, the Gonzales aide defiled, which played a key role in the dismissals? Remember Monica Goodling, the Justice Department liaison to the White House, so far as to ask prospective Justice appointed, wax eloquent about why to "serve" George W. Bush wanted it went?The Justice Department conducted an investigation as thorough as could be, and concluded that there is evidence of White House political meddling in "at least three of the removals." The joint probe by the department's Office of Inspector General and the Office of Professional Responsibility and recommended further studies to determine "whether the totality of the evidence demonstrates that any crime was committed. "The investigators reported, substantiated by the WhiteHouse ...
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