Reply #10: Deputy AG becomes acting AG [View All]

[hey hey]

the deputy AG becomes acting AG until Bush appoints someone else which would need Senate confirmation unless he appoints someone during recess.

don't you all remember when John Ashcroft was in the ICU and Rove and Gonzalez (then whitehouse council) bypassed the acting attorney general to try and get Ashcroft to sign off (while he was in ICU) on the Domestic Surveillance Program? the the Deputy AG didn't agree so they ignored the fact he was actually then the active AG and went to Ashcroft.

Actually if Mukasey is as bad as news report says he is the deputy AG is already the acting AG-

The Deputy AG likely now acting AG is Mark Filip:

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