Which US Attorneys Did Rove's Bidding? Real Story Is WHO Did NOT Get Fired? (The Nation)

What about the U.S. Attorneys who were not fired?

Did they agree to mount political prosecutions in order to keep their jobs? Were they reliably partisan enough to secure White House political czar Karl Rove approval?

Did they act on that partisanship in their official duties?


BLOG | Posted 04/10/2007 @ 10:24am
Which US Attorneys Did Rove's Bidding?


The real story of the U.S. Attorneys scandal that has so endangered the tenure of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is not that of the eight fired prosecutors. It is that of the 85 U.S. Attorneys around the country who were not let go.

There is mounting evidence that the Bush administration was pressuring U.S. attorneys to politicize their prosecutions prior to the 2006 elections, on the apparent theory that stirring up trouble for Democrats in battleground states might ease concerns about abuses by White House aides, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay, former California Congressman Duke Cunningham and the various and sundry GOP solons who had been linked to no-longer-so-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

And it certainly looks as if some of the U.S. Attorneys who refused to bow to the pressure to mount prosecutions that might embarrass Democrats were removed from their positions because of their regard for the rule of law.

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The bottom line should be clear: The investigation into the politicization of prosecutions by the Bush administration needs to expand dramatically. As this happens, there is good reason to believe that the firings of the eight U.S. Attorneys that have to now been so much in the news may turn out to be the lesser scandals brought to light by an inquiry that could yet be the most damning of Bush's presidency.


more at:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=184248

The ones we're beginning to hear about are bad enough. But what else is out there?

did into investigations and indictments of Dems prior to the 2006 elections.

I've read him over the past two years, from time to time, and he's always on target.

He sees through the B.S.

The way I see the US Attorneys is the way I look at the Corporate Media. They're the legal division of extraordinary wealth and power, to be used as a means of maintaining and expanding that power. The problem is there are all sorts of career DOJ attorneys who want to serve their country not to mention those who were appointed who have ethical standards that don't tolerate a sham operation.

Of course Rove is behind it but he's behind it for people much more powerful than he is.

Lets reverse engineer what they've done, through those USA's who cooperated, and look at the big fish.

That's how good prosecutors do it.

was done wrong? Remember you cannot prove a negative! The only way I can think of would be to find someone who would admit THEY got away with something BECAUSE the localUSA said they would look the other way, and we all know THAT'S not happening!!!! Or maybesome USA who now feels too guilty to remain quiet, but I don't see THAT happening either.

Yup. he did:
Krugman: Bigger scandal involves US attorneys still in office
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Krugman_Bigger_scandal_involves_US_attorneys_0309.html
link dor the whole thing:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030907D.shtml
It's a more thorough analysis than Nation's. (not that is bad that it's pursued)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=601018

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=588156

The mystery is solved.

For weeks, it was unclear who whined to the White House last year that not enough voter fraud cases were being prosecuted in Milwaukee.

Now we know.

The state Republican Party went straight to the top in its efforts to make voter fraud an issue in Wisconsin.

Sources tell No Quarter that Rick Wiley, then the executive director of the state GOP, directed a staffer in 2005 to prepare a 30-page report on election abuses in Wisconsin so Wiley could pass it along to a top White House official.

That document, entitled "Fraud in Wisconsin 2004: A Timeline/Summary," turned up last week in the horde of White House and U.S. Justice Department records released by the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

"The report was prepared for Karl Rove," said a source with knowledge of the situation. "Rick wanted it so he could give it to Karl Rove."

Yeah, that Karl Rove, President Bush's political mastermind and his deputy chief of staff.

The same guy who was knee-deep in helping decide which U.S. attorneys to keep or to boot.

during the 2004 election would be a good place to start.

Why did Kenneth Blackwell and the corrupt Ohio Republicon machine think they could get away with it? Why was there no federal investigation and no prosecution?

I think this may be a pullable thread in the tapestry of Republicon corruption we see nationwide.

For one thing, I think that Blackwell & Co. felt they had guaranteed immunity in a future Bushcon U.S. Attorney General. But why would they think that? The presidential election appeared to be neck and neck to the end. They could have been looking at former prosecutor John Kerry as president appointing real prosecutors as AG and as US attorneys in the civil rights division and elsewhere. You could say that this was their incentive to commit massive violations against Kerry voters in Ohio--their corruption was not limited to Voting Rights Act crimes--but I think it's deeper than this. I think that the smashing of black (and other minority, poor and student) voters was possibly gratuitous--or, in any case, extra insurance against a Kerry win--and that the real story lay in how the entire election "came down to Ohio" where Rove had created the most corrupt Bushcon machine in the country, just waiting with open arms for the election to "come down" to Ohio.

The real story lay in the guaranteed reelection of Bush/Cheney that was insured by the fast-track conversion--2002 to 2004--of most of the country's vote counting system to electronic voting, run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. And they are...

DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). Diebold and ES&S have an incestuous relationship; they were run by two brothers, Bob and Tod Urosevich.

These are the people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy. This attack on our nation's voting system was engineered by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress--Tom Delay and Bob Ney (abetted by corporatist Democrats like Christopher Dodd): the "Help America Vote for Bush Act" of 2002, a $3.9 billion electronic voting boondoggle featuring secret industry "testing" of the voting machines, no paper trail requirement whatsoever, unchecked lavish lobbying of election officials and legislators, the writing of unamerican laws that protected the "trade secret" code, and extreme insecurity in these insider hackable voting systems.

How did the FBI miss this?
How did the Attorney General of the US miss this?
How did the US Attorneys across the land miss this?
How did Homeland Security miss this?
And, from our point of view as members of the Democratic Party, how did the Democratic Party leadership miss this?

If you were to design a "Stalinist" vote counting system, that would, for instance, manufacture a phony endorsement of the Iraq War, you couldn't do better than this. The system is DESIGNED for stealing elections.

But it hadn't been tested out on a nationwide basis. Maybe they didn't quite trust that it would do the job--and that's why they implemented Plan B, massive suppression of black and other Democratic voters in Ohio (and some other places, notably Florida). Or maybe Plan B was intended as a distraction. If election reformers focused on election fraud that could easily be prevented by simple enforcement of the Voting Rights Act--which many of them have done--no one would notice that an entirely fraudulent election system had been installed nationwide, which would not only guarantee permanent war, and other fascist policy, it would guarantee that no honest AG would ever be appointed again.

Dr. Ron Baiman (statistical expert, PhD) and others believe that Diebold/ES&S are putting a 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" for Bushites, warmongers and corporatists. This is my guestimate as well. And this explains what happened in '06. The American people outvoted the machines--in their anger at the war, at vast corruption and at other fascist policy, in an effort to get themselves a half-decent Congress. The result: 75% of the American people oppose the war and want it ended, but they were only able to achieve a 50/50 Congress, one in which their will is expressed by some members but cannot be implemented. And the problem is not so much the Bushcon dinosaurs as it is the "Blue Dog" Democrats who want to cut spending on everything but the war budget. Bear in mind that Diebold/ES&S control the results of party PRIMARY elections (who gets to run), as well as general elections (who wins). Who gets to run and who wins are also determined by money, as we all know, and by the war profiteering corporate news monopolies (who gets good press, who gets "swift-boated"). But the 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" is the coup de grace. It GUARANTEES continued war and fascist policy of every kind.

And it's quite interesting that this fascist coup--the Bushite corporate takeover of our election system--came out of Ohio in the first place. Bob Ney. Diebold. The Bush/Cheney campaign committee that Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell was head of, was Ohio's. The "Help America Vote for Bush Act" was crossing Bob Ney's desk at the same time as the Abramoff bribes. And how can this have all been taking place under the nose of the FBI, the US AG, the US Attorneys for the Ohio district, and the US Attorneys in every jurisdiction in the US where these lying, criminal, fascist corporations were plying their shoddy, insider hackable wares?

And when an honest Secretary of State--Kevin Shelley in California--poked his head into this matter, and sued Diebold for their lies about the security of their touchscreen voting machines, demanded to see their source code, and decertified their touchscreens, six months prior to the 2004 election, where was the federal investigation that these state actions should have triggered? And where is the investigation NOW of how this honest official was "swift-boated" out of office on entirely bogus corruption charges?

The bad guys knew that they had GUARANTEED election. That's what this is all about. GUARANTEED control of the vote counting, which provided GUARANTEED control of the Justice system.

looking into Robert Menendez on an issue that the Congress exonerated him on.