From: Gary Britt 

Its not a perversion at all.  Its the law.  Congress passed it.  You can't
bypass congress if the law says you don't need congress.  Its no different
than a long recess appointment.  Move along.  There's nothing to see here.

Yawn.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> You conveniently forgot about the bypassing of Senate approval due to
> Bush's perversion of the Patriot Act for political purposes
>
>
> Gary Britt wrote:
>> Prosecutors are part of the executive branch not the judicial branch
>> and all serve at the pleasure of the President.  When Bill Clinton
>> came into office in 1993 he fired all 84 US Attorneys.  Bush didn't do
>> this kind of mass firing.  Clinton also did many mass firings in other
>> areas of government as well.  Also not followed by Bush.
>>
>> Bush should have followed the Clinton model, but he was trying to play
>> nice, foolishly thinking that he could achieve with washinton
>> democraps what he had achieved with Texas democrats.  Washington
>> democraps ain't the same kind of critter.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> Yet another  debasement of the Patroit Act - The Bushies firing
>>> Federal prosecutors  to get their cronies in without Senate
>>> confirmation.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4606122.html
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON - A fired federal prosecutor told a Senate committee
>>> Tuesday that he felt "leaned on" and sickened as
Republican Sen. Pete
>>> Domenici hung up on him in disgust last fall when told that
>>> indictments in a corruption case against Democrats would not be
>>> issued before the fall elections.
>>>
>>> "He said, 'Are these going to be filed before
November?'" former
>>> federal prosecutor David Iglesias, one of eight U.S. attorneys
>>> summarily fired in recent months, told the panel. "I said I didn't
>>> think so. And to which he replied, 'I'm very sorry to hear that.' And
>>> then the line went dead."
>>>
>>> The Bush administration also applied a heavy hand after the firings
>>> of eight prosecutors became public and some of the dismissed U.S.
>>> attorneys had been quoted in media, according to one of those ousted,
>>> Bud Cummins of Arkansas.
>>>
>>> Cummins said in an e-mail released by the Senate Judiciary Committee
>>> that Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul
>>> McNulty, had called and expressed his displeasure that the fired
>>> prosecutors talked to reporters about their dismissals.
>>>
>>> "If they (DOJ) feel like any of us intend to continue to
offer quotes
>>> to the press, or organize behind the scenes congressional pressure,
>>> then they feel forced to somehow pull their gloves off and offer
>>> public criticisms to defend their actions more fully," Cummins said
>>> in the e-mail to five other fired prosecutors.
>>>
>>> Iglesias said he received the call at home on Oct. 26 or 27th and
>>> that it lasted two minutes, "tops."
>>>
>>> "I felt leaned on. I felt pressured to get these matters
moving,"
>>> Iglesias testified.
>>>
>>> Asked by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whether such a call was unusual
>>> in Iglesias' experience, the former prosecutor answered,
>>> "Unprecedented."
>>>
>>> Six of eight prosecutors fired by the Department of Justice in recent
>>> months were expected to appear before House and Senate panels - all
>>> six under subpoena before the House, four voluntarily in the Senate.
>>> Justice officials have said most of the eight were dismissed for
>>> performance-related issues, an allegation those testifying staunchly
>>> denied.
>>>
>>>
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2007/03/06/editorial/editorial/daily938.
txt
>>>
>>>
>>> The New Mexico controversy suggests a possible attempt to use the
>>> courts to sway an election. In San Diego, reasonable people might
>>> detect a whiff of payback as well as a possible fear of where an
>>> unfinished investigation might lead next. And when a former Karl Rove
>>> aide ends up as a federal prosecutor in Arkansas, it's hard to avoid
>>> the notion that someone's planning to revive the Whitewater scandal
>>> against Sen. Hillary Clinton.
>>>
>>> Apparently, a little-noticed provision of the Patriot Act allows U.S.
>>> attorneys to be replaced without Senate confirmation. A lack of
>>> confirmation hearings no doubt caused some fine political minds to
>>> believe they could put people more sympathetic to their plans in
>>> those jobs, as long as they kept things quiet.
>>>
>>>

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