CONYERS: New Docs Show "WH Played Integral Role In Firings & Their Aftermath" (WAPO)

Bush Aides Helped Respond to Firings, E-Mails Show

"These documents show that the White House played an integral role in the firings and their aftermath," said House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.). "This only underscores the need for White House cooperation with this investigation."

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 13, 2007; Page A10

Several high-ranking White House officials were closely involved in crafting a public response to the uproar over the firing of a group of U.S. attorneys, according to documents released late yesterday.

Then-White House counsel Harriet E. Miers and aides to presidential adviser Karl Rove were deeply enmeshed in debates over how to respond to the controversy as early as mid-January, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) questioned the spate of prosecutor departures in a Senate floor speech, according to e-mails that the Justice Department turned over to the House and Senate judiciary committees.

The e-mails are the latest documents to surface among the thousands of pages provided to Congress in last year's firing of nine U.S. attorneys. Their ouster has prompted a series of investigations and led to a failed effort Monday by Senate Democrats to stage a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

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The 46 pages of e-mails show that Miers and others -- including her deputy, William Kelley, and the White House political affairs director at the time, Sara M. Taylor -- were involved in spirited and sometimes angry e-mail exchanges as the secretive firings operation began to unravel in public. Many of the exchanges also included D. Kyle Sampson, who coordinated the firings as Gonzales's chief of staff.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061202090.html?hpid=sec-politics

Mountains of proof to put these monsters out of office, and new revelations all the time, but they're still there. It's important to have this information, because I'm sure it'll cement this misadministration's place in history, but I really have to wonder if they will ever pay for their crimes.

they will pay for their crimes -
and thanks for the love...kp

How much more proof do we need that these men are criminals.

There's just 508 days left until the election (any impeachment happening after that would be seen as extremely petty), which translates to less than 400 business days.

Mark my words--if something isn't done like, NOW, this will be 1988 all over again when nearly all the key players of Iran-Contra walked scott-free, and the Repukes won the White House again, in spite of everything. :cry:

I just don't see how Bush and his thugs will pay a price for all their crimes and destruction they have caused on this country and the world. How will they pay a price? They will not be impeached and when it's time to leave office Bush will relax away in the sunset from politcs and that will be it. Sure, books will be written about the crimes but that is not paying the price! The Dems and certainly not the Repubs will ever hold Bush, or anyone connected to him, accountable. Hell, they could not even get a vote of no confidence to the floor of the senate!

Read what Wednesdays said above:

Mark my words--if something isn't done like, NOW, this will be 1988 all over again when nearly all the key players of Iran-Contra walked scott-free, and the Repukes won the White House again, in spite of everything.

all the while laughing ...

there is no justice..there is no rule od law left in this country...unless it would involve you and me!!

fly

Update #4 from jeremyblooms diary...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/12/214634/984

being the upright and law abiding citizens that they are

Kicked and recommended.