From: Rich Gauszka 

Right - bunch of nothing - Just fire those prosecutors who wouldn't file
charges against Democrats before the election then appoint your own goons
without the need for Senate approval - Hail Caesar!!!

Maybe those who passed that provision of the Patriot Act actually thought
Bush would follow the intent of the Act - Silly people


Mark wrote:
> Eh, a bunch of nothing. He can fire them at will and probably should have
> sooner. If the congress didn't want whatever clause you're referring to in
> the PA, they shouldn't have passed it that way.
>
> Hillary or Barack will be firing all of them in less than 2 years anyway.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:45edf6f4{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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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