DOJ vs. DOJ: Two Views on the U.S. Attorney Firings (Comey vs Moschella)

[maddezmom]

Almost exactly two months apart, two different Justice Department officials (one current, one former) appeared before the same House subcommittee in the same room in the Rayburn office building to talk about the same topic -- the performance of U.S. attorneys.

On March 6, William E. Moschella, the principal associate deputy attorney general, laid out the official reasons for the firings of six of the eight U.S. attorneys who were dismissed last year.

Yesterday, former deputy attorney general James B. Comey, whose job for more than two years included overseeing the U.S. attorneys, also appeared before the Judiciary subcommittee conducting the investigation into the firings and painted a dramatically different picture of those U.S. attorneys.

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Here are Moschella's explanations for the firings, followed by Comey's impressions of the prosecutors:

On DANIEL BOGDEN OF LAS VEGAS

Moschella: "The general sense in the department about Mr. Bogden is that, given the importance of the district, in Las Vegas, there was no particular deficiency. There was interest in seeing renewed energy and renewed vigor in that office, really taking it to the next level."

Comey: "He is as straight as a Nevada highway, and a fired-up guy. ... We chose places to that were experiencing a spike in violent crime. But not every place that was experiencing a spike in violent crime; we wanted to put it where we had a fired-up U.S. attorney who could watch over it and make it work. ... he had made tremendous strides on violent crime."


more:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/05/doj_vs_doj_two_views_on_fired.html#more

[mod mom]

1. You gotta love this lame excuse coming from Gonzales' lead DOJ:

Moschella: "The district was in need of greater leadership. ... Mr. Iglesias had delegated to his first assistant the overall running of the office. And, quite frankly, U.S. attorneys are hired to run the office."

[maddezmom]

2. that is classic considering who Gonzo delegated his own work to

Goodling and Sampson

[izzie]

3. The shame of the whole thing is it makes them all tainted.

Bush seems to have 'a thing' for doing this every place he goes.And lets face it he does it well.