A dozen attorneys had faced federal ax

Source: McClatchy

Documents are said to name 4 who were reviewed, not fired.

WASHINGTON -- Senior congressional aides who have seen unedited internal documents say the Bush administration considered firing at least a dozen U.S. attorneys before settling on eight late last year.

The four who escaped dismissal came from states that the White House considered political battlegrounds in the last presidential election: Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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The congressional aides, who asked not to be identified because they weren't authorized to discuss the information publicly, on Friday confirmed to McClatchy Newspapers that former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves of Kansas City, Mo., and U.S. Attorney Thomas Marino of Scranton, Pa., were among the 12 whose jobs were in jeopardy.

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Graves said Friday he was surprised to learn that he'd been considered a possible target for dismissal, but he expressed relief that he was no longer with the Justice Department.

"The current environment at the department can only be described as toxic. ... What is going on now in D.C. is a three-ring circus, and I don't want anything to do with it," he told the Kansas City Star.





Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/341/story/162691.html

bought Knight Ridder? Boy, did these two news sources come out smelling like a rose on Bill Moyers expose. Just love it that the sycophants like Russert got their long lying noses tweeked. They could have been the heroes and they are instead shamed. Enjoy the cocktail circuit, you "morans," because it is all you have left.

Bradley Schlozman as an interim replacement. Schlozman had worked in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and was involved in a federal lawsuit filed in November 2005 accusing Missouri of failing to properly maintain its voter registration rolls.

Two weeks ago a federal judge ruled for the state, saying she found no evidence of major voter fraud in Missouri.

Friday, some of the state’s Democrats accused the White House of sending Schlozman here to pursue cases in a state that was crucial to political control of the Senate. Sen. Jim Talent, a Republican, was battling McCaskill, and Democrats say Schlozman intended to make targets of their voters and voter registration efforts.

“When the Bush administration needed one of its top political attack dogs, they sent him (Schlozman) to the Kansas City jurisdiction,” said party spokesman Jack Cardetti.

The Justice Department said Schlozman would not be available to comment.

On Nov. 1, 2006, a week before the election, Schlozman announced grand jury indictments against four employees of ACORN, an activist group that works in urban neighborhoods. The indictments accused the workers filing false voter registrations; it was the only known federal case against ACORN workers in the nation in the fall of

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/87005.html

Schlozman is of equal quality:

The interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., Bradley J. Schlozman, for example, was a deputy in Justice's civil rights division who helped overrule career government lawyers in approving a Texas redistricting plan pushed by Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), then House majority leader. In January, the White House nominated a permanent replacement, John Wood, who is counselor to Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty. Neither Schlozman nor Wood has been a prosecutor before.
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Missouri had for years been a hub of GOP allegations of election fraud -- long disputed by Democrats -- when Schlozman arrived a year ago from Justice's civil rights division. Six days before the November elections, he announced indictments of four voter-registration recruiters for a left-leaning group, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, for allegedly submitting fraudulent registrations to the election board in Kansas City, Mo. Democrats have protested.

From all one can tell, Schlozman is very much to Rove's liking.

His permanent replacement, John Wood has also very deep connections into the White House and beyond. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thomas and worked with Ashcroft and Gonzales.

But unlike in the other cases of US Attorney firings, here one "loyal Bushie", Schlozman, has to go to make room for another one. That is quite odd.


http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/04/why_was_schlozm.html

Santorum drops Thomas More Law Center
Nick Matzke posted Entry 1822 on December 22, 2005 03:49 PM.
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Back in January I seem to remember the Thomas More Law Center declaring “A Revolution in Evolution Is Underway.” But today, according to the Associated Press, “Santorum says will break ties to law firm that represented school district on intelligent design.” Now, Santorum was on the TMLC board, and encouraged the Dover Area School Board early on – see for example his January 23, 2005, op-ed in the Allentown Morning Call, entitled “A Balanced Approach to Teaching Evolution,” (helpfully now hosted on the Discovery Institute website) wherein Santorum wrote, “The Dover Area School District has taken a step in the right direction by attempting to teach the controversy of evolution.”

http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/12/santorum_drops.html


A federal prosecutor said testimony in the Dover Area School District’s intelligent design case is under review to determine if perjury charges should be pursued.

U.S. Middle District Attorney Thomas A. Marino said yesterday that decision will take time because there is “a lot of reading to do” to determine if the statements rise to the level of a crime.

“I want to question a couple of people who were present,” he said. They will not include Judge John E. Jones III, who presided over the case, he said.

Marino’s comments came a day after Jones struck down the school district’s policy of telling ninth-grade biology students Darwin’s theory of evolution is not fact and intelligent design is an alternative explanation of the origin of life.

In his opinion, Jones accused some of those who testified during the six-week trial in Harrisburg of lying, singling out former board members Alan Bonsell and William Buckingham, the leading proponents of the policy.

Both men testified during the trial, which ended last month, and both gave sworn statements in depositions on Jan. 3. During the trial, Jones and lawyers for parents opposed to the policy confronted the men about the discrepancies and evasiveness in their answers to questions about their motivations and efforts to raise money for a pro-intelligent design textbook, “Of Pandas and People.”

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=6363

who brought an unfounded case against an ordinary bureaucrat hired during the prior Republican administration. The media then whipped it up as a scandal for Democratic Governor Jim Doyle during his reelection campaign (which he won in spite of this). Biskupic also brought several "voter fraud" cases and won only a few of them, but it must have been enough to keep him in his job.

Hey look! There were 4 others who were also in battleground states, and *they* weren't fired! See??? It wasn't about politics!

But the main point is that the battleground states provided the basis for where the USAttys would be culled from. And this is just more proof of that.

Rove's fingerprints show up once again.

stay in the good graces of the WH??

final list.

Replaced by Palouse, a gem who has run such a great office that a nanny atty from the justice departement had to be sent in to try to fix internal office problems. Three senior attys in the office voluntarily demoted themselves so they wouldn't have to work as closely with her.