US Attorney Firing Cover-up: A New Player

Congress requested ALL documents pertaining to the USA firing. The House Judiciary committee has published the documents produced by the DOJ in response to their inquiry.
DOJ Purgegate Docs

18 Kossacks have completely extracted the emails from these documents. From the email trail, we now have evidence of a systematic cover-up by the White House and DOJ. A majority of emails from Kyle Sampson following the firing have been hidden from Congress. A substantial portion of the emails of Brian Roehrkasse, DOJ spokesman, are being withheld. All emails from Rove deputy Sarah Taylor, and a critical email from Rove deputy J. Scott Jennings have been suppressed. This cover-up is clearly planned, and wilfully executed by the DOJ and White House. Congress and the American People should be INCENSED.

More:
<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/2/85031/81603>

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They are not as good at torturing as we are here in the states.

republicons = no ethics, no morals, no honor.

Why do republicons HATE America?

their greed knows no boundary.

This is SO much better than the CRAP we get out of the mainstream media!!

:freak: That couldn't by chance be ON PURPOSE, could it? I mean, just because all the top brass that own the media are top republican donors/operatives, they wouldn't be, like, BIASED or anything, right?

:kick::kick::kick:

our election system are ALSO "top republican donors/operatives." 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. And they are STILL counting all our votes...with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls.

Makes you kind of wonder, don't it?

They are Republicans. They are Bushites. They are multi-millionaire/billionaires. The secret code that "counts" all our votes is written in their cubicles, by their employees, and inserted into our voting machines and central tabulators, with nary a public eye upon it, ever.

Gee, you think they'd use it to keep those multiple tax cuts for the rich coming in, and keep all the stocks in their war portfolio rising, and to keep commies and homosexuals out of "their" government?

But, but, but...'christians' aren't supposed to lie and cheat, are they? Or become billionaires by the blood of the poor and the innocent?

Naw, these guys love 'Jesus' too much to pull off a heist like that! To manufacture a phony endorsement of war and torture. To keep an idiot puppet in the White House, whose only claim to fame will ever be that he slaughtered half a million innocent people to get their oil.

That would be too...um...hypocritical?



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"That couldn't by chance be ON PURPOSE, could it? I mean, just because all the top brass that own the media are top republican donors/operatives, they wouldn't be, like, BIASED or anything, right?" --LoudSue

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/2/62425/86437


More Patriot Act Shenanigans and USAgate Hotlist
by Jesselyn Radack
Wed May 02, 2007 at 03:31:45 AM PDT

WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS DIARY OVER BREAKFAST.

We already know that the U.S. Attorney purge was related to one pernicious provision, since repealed, slipped into the inaptly-named "Patriot Act." Under that chestnut, Attorney General Gonzales had the authority to name U.S. Attorney replacements who can serve indefinitely without confirmation. This allowed them to do an end-run around Senate confirmation. Under the previous law, to which we have thankfully returned, unconfirmed replacements can serve for only 120 days, after which the district courts name a successor.

But there is at least one other provision of the Patriot Act that implicated by the U.S. Attorney scandal: the "residency" requirement. It said--conveniently for Gonzales who was siphoning off U.S. Attorneys to serve as headquarters officials at Main Justice--that federal prosecutors could live outside their districts to serve in other jobs. As the Church Lady would say, "How con-veen-ient."

But the back story is much uglier. On November 10, 2005, the Montana U.S. Attorney, William Mercer, had a Republican Senate staffer insert the "live two places at once" residency provision, that would apply retroactively (you'll see why in the next sentence), into a Patriot Act reauthorization bill, which changed the rules so that U.S. Attorneys could pull double-duty (which is really a misnomer, because the U.S. Attorneys who abandoned their districts for Main Justice spent their time almost exclusively at the latter.) Gonzales sent a letter that same day to the Honorable Donald Molloy, a federal judge in Montana, assuring him that Mercer was not violating federal law by spending all his time in D.C. at Main Justice. (Molloy had complained to Gonzales three weeks earlier that Mercer was violating federal law because he "no longer resides in Montana" because he and his family had moved to D.C.)

The hypocrisy really glows because in the U.S. Attorney scandal, the Justice Department fired David Iglesias in part because he was absent from New Mexico too much. And Iglesias a least had a real excuse for his absence--he was fulfilling his service as a Naval Reserve officer--not browning his nose in Gonzales' caboose.

P.S. The Republican Senate staffer who inserted the pernicious provision was Bett Tolman--then counsel to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). Tolman is now the U.S. Attorney in Utah.

When I checked my saved files to see if I had anything on this "new player" mentioned in the Kos post, what came up was (to my surprise) one of the "Plame Indictment" threads here from 2004 -- specifically a quote from Michael Isikoff at Newsweek:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1962806

As a result, sources tell NEWSWEEK, Ridge's department last week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election were an attack to take place. Justice was specifically asked to review a recent letter to Ridge from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries noted that, while a primary election in New York on September 11, 2001, was quickly suspended by that state's Board of Elections after the attacks that morning, "the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election." Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound, they are taking them seriously—along with other possible contingency plans in the event of an election-eve or Election Day attack. "We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election," says Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland spokesman.

Fascinating and disquieting.

Ptech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech

Please read 'notable clientele' segment at a minimum.

Hell, we should all be plaintiffs.

Well, the time has come, when many forces have intersected to enable this phenomenon they could not anticipate or expect to ever occur. The rapid processing and analysis of the multiple data dumps, making the extracted knowledge ACTIONABLE in real time -- vs "too late" to make a difference.

I have had it with this group of crooks and liars.

Impeach and imprison!!! and save this nation!!