Justice Dept. Official Says His Role in Firings Was Limited(McNulty)

[maddezmom]

Source: Washington Post

Justice Dept. Official Says His Role in Firings Was Limited

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 1, 2007; Page A05

Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty told congressional investigators that he had limited involvement in the firing last year of eight U.S. attorneys and that he did not choose any to be removed, congressional aides familiar with his statements said yesterday.

McNulty said he provided erroneous testimony to Congress in February because he had not been informed that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and his aides had been working with the White House on the firings for nearly two years, the congressional aides said.

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Gonzales, former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson and William E. Moschella, the principal associate deputy attorney general, also told Congress they did not choose who was fired.

"If the top folks at DOJ weren't the key decision-makers, it's less likely that lower-down people at DOJ were, and much more likely that people in the White House were making the major decisions," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043001526.html?hpid=sec-nations

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and now we know Sampson was lying through his teeth, Goodling gets immunity....so all roads lead to Rove and the WH

Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2829064&mesg_id=2829064

[badgervan]

1. We All Know...

...what this administration has been up to for six years now. What we need are a few patriotic republicans on the inside who will put country ahead of party, and provide solid proof of what has been going on in the name of executive privilege - or whatever other excuse rove has been using.

[sam sarrha]

2. ahhhhhh..patrotic Republicans.. OxyMoran... they want to flush the Constitution down the toilet....

they are faithful only to the dollar, and the Corporation that gives it to them..

you are still deluded about who they are if you think they believe in anything but money, their flying monkeys and wanna be's may have Innocent sociopathy by association but the real republicans are all Fascist psychopaths. they don't believe in American style government, peace or freedom, middle class, wake up...

[Demeter]

6. Seeing How The Dollar's In the Toilet, Don't Think Loyalty Lies There, Either

Makes you wonder what the white collar crooks are putting their assets in, the way the dollar's dropping off the charts. They all have Euro and Yen accounts, most likely.

[Kagemusha]

4. ..Why do you think they've worked so hard to put loyal Bushies in there?

Lord knows it's not because they're competent or effective.

[sam sarrha]

3. maybe Gonzo was telling the truth.. he is just a Flying Monkey, out of the loop, his job in texas

was just to see the prisoners got executed.. maybe took videos for * to entertain himself with

[Tatiana]

5. I, actually, sort of believe them. Evidence points to the fact that Gonzales

delegated that unsavory job to Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling.

[maddezmom]

7. Bogden firing weighs on Gonzales' No. 2

WASHINGTON - A Justice Department official who had been uncomfortable about firing U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden now regrets he could not save the Nevadan's job when Justice purged eight prosecutors last year.

In a closed-door interview with congressional investigators last week, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said the firing weighs on him heavily, according to an aide familiar with the transcript of McNulty's comments. McNulty said he succeeded in sparing another U.S. attorney whose identity has not been revealed.

McNulty is the latest senior Justice official to tell investigators he was not involved in deciding which prosecutors to fire, and had no idea why the list included Bogden, a career prosecutor. The firing of the eight U.S. attorneys touched off a controversy that has threatened the future of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The accounts by McNulty and the other officials differ from Gonzales' contention that senior managers were consulted about whom to fire once his chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, was asked to draw up a list.

more:http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2007/may/02/566650861.html

[Supersedeas]

8. Or will Goodling be the scapegoat with immunity?

[yellowcanine]

9. It seems no one fired them. I guess they still have their jobs then?

Just askin'.