Prosecutor Nominated As Justice No. 2 (McNulty)

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- Paul McNulty, a federal prosecutor in Virginia, was chosen Friday by President Bush to serve as the No. 2 Justice Department official, following the withdrawal of a nominee who faced questions about his business ties.
....
Bush's previous nominee for deputy Attorney General, Timothy E. Flanigan, withdrew his nomination in early October, citing uncertainty over when he would be confirmed. Senators complained that Flanigan lacked prosecutorial experience and also questioned his dealings with indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

McNulty, 47, is well-known on Capitol Hill. He served as spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Republicans during the impeachment of President Clinton. He later directed the Bush transition team for the Justice Department and worked in the deputy's office until Bush appointed him to the prosecutor's job in Virginia.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-justice-nominee,0,1192792.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[shraby]

1. Won't this be too little too late for Bush?

By the time McNulty goes through the process, the indictments will have been filed.

[Rose Siding]

2. He's serving in an acting capacity now

His nomination as deputy Attorney General must be confirmed by the Senate, but the White House announcement said he would serve in an acting capacity until then.

[cosmicdot]

3. worked for Dick Armey

"..legislative director for House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.)."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33839-2000Dec20?language=printer

just another one the broom needs to sweep from the halls of government

"He served as spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Republicans during the impeachment of President Clinton."

impeccable qualification :sarcasm:



- directed President Bush's transition team for the Department of Justice

- He was Chief Counsel and Director of Legislative Operations for the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.

- Mr. McNulty has played a significant role in shaping criminal justice policy in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (wonder if justice suffered as a result)

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/vae/biography.html

~snips~

- Most recently, McNulty has had a leading role on the prosecution end of many high-profile cases, including American Taliban member John Walker Lindh; Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person to face criminal charges in the Sept. 11 attacks; and convicted spy Robert Hanssen.

- he directed house Republican media relations for the Clinton impeachment process.

- Counsel to Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge*

* a Lobbying Firm - Enron and Murdoch News Corp. have used its services
http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/profile.aspx?act=firms&year=2003&lo=L002707

- He is a 1983 graduate of Capital University School of Law.

- prepared Senator John Ashcroft for his Senate confirmation hearings as nominee for Attorney General.

http://www.gcc.edu/news/biographies/mcnulty/default.htm

[hang a left]

4. Isn't this the man that is leading the Franklin investigation?

I am confused.

[cal04]

5. Prosecutor in AIPAC affair is named new U.S. deputy AG

President George Bush announced Saturday his intention to nominate Paul J. McNulty, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice.

McNulty is the Federal prosecutor in the cases of former defense analyst Larry Franklin, and the two former AIPAC lobbyists, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman.

All three were indicted for conspiring "to communicate national defense information ... persons not en-titled to receive it."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/636912.html

[grasswire]

6. McNulty is a Bush FIXER. A FIXER

McNulty has headed up the rocket docket in Alexandria VA.

His most notorious FIXING job was in the Florida recount of 2000.

Don't you recall his face? He was on the television at all hours of day and night, working that coup.

A FIXER!

A disgusting, anti-democratic FIXER.

[Peace Patriot]

7. My God, I had no idea who McNulty was! So...instead of firing the...

...prosecutor, a la Nixon and the "Saturday Night Massacre," they just give him a bigger title and a bigger salary?

Well, I guess we can still hope that some elements of the Bush-corrupted GOP want to clean house (name some "fall guys," even Cheney if they have to), and pull U.S. foreign policy back toward the super-power, globalization 'middle,' away from the precipice of nuke rattling and mad tribal-religious warfare in the middle east.

I am actually stunned by this post, and extremely concerned that Fitzgerald is working with this guy. And they have Bush, Diebold and ES&S to thank for the fact that I cannot trust ANY Bush political operative, ever, to do anything except screw us over. My hope for Fitzgerald has been that he seems so completely non-partisan, and seems so disinterested in publicity and in the status of his perps. Seems like a real prosecutor, the old-fashioned kind--solely focused on justice.

Ah, me! Well, we can still hope and pray that even a Bush political operative might balk at treason.

[hang a left]

8. I have a sick feeling in my stomach.

Silly me, to think that we would have justice.

[ngGale]

9. This is not good....

they are fixing...dare my hopes were too high.