AIPAC/PlameGate - Paul McNulty - Will he still be the PROSECUTOR??

[stop the bleeding]

According to NPR Senate hearings began on his nomination yesterday - WHAT WILL THIS DO TO THE AIPAC CASE and PLAMEGATE???

By Dan Eggen and Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 22, 2005; Page A11

President Bush will nominate U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty of Alexandria to become the next deputy attorney general, the White House announced yesterday, replacing an earlier candidate who dropped out amid growing opposition from Senate Democrats.

McNulty, 47, has presided over a dramatic expansion of the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, which has become the central legal front in the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy.

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McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation for the number two Justice Department job, officials said. His nomination comes after months of disputes between the Senate and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales over the previous nominee, Timothy E. Flanigan, who withdrew his name from consideration Oct. 7.

~snip~

McNulty has overseen the busy U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria for four years and has deep ties in Washington's GOP circles. He was chief counsel and spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Republicans during impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, headed the Bush transition team at the Justice Department and prepared former attorney general John D. Ashcroft for his bruising Senate confirmation hearings in 2001.

Since becoming U.S. attorney, McNulty has overseen the prosecutions of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; John Walker Lindh, an American who helped the Taliban in Afghanistan; and a group of Muslim men convicted of training overseas for holy war against the United States





http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/21/AR2005102101992.html

[H2O Man]

1. No problem.

Things are good.

[stop the bleeding]

6. Could you clarify, just to put my nerves at ease - I am not that familar

with the chain of command on how this works.

McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation" for the number two Justice Department job, officials said.

Sounds like to me he will have his hands full once he is confirmed and will not be a Prosecutor anymore, this position that he is up for has it's hands in every office and department within the DOJ - this is really big-time position from what I gathered from the Senator's questions and responses from the NPR interview.

I am not familiar with how the chain of command would work with this but it is that:

"McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation" that has me all bothered.

[H2O Man]

8. He will stay.

Many good people on DU are worrying about things that there is absolutely no reason to worry about, in regard to the AIPAC and Plame cases, and about prosecutors and judges, and about motions and maybe even emotions. Please trust the Water Man. If there is a problem, I will be on here ranting and raving like a Mad Irishman at his half-wit's ends. But I'm not. I'm saying for the 100th time today that everything is good on both cases. In fact, it's getting better all the time .... and I do not mind if one of you sings, "it can't get much worse!" because Beatle songs are a good thing.

[stop the bleeding]

9. Thank you - these are crazy times but exciting - the news it moving

at break neck speed.

any ideas on this question that I posted?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x313046

[H2O Man]

10. You are right ....

the news is indeed moving at a break neck speed. Be assured that things not being reported in the news are also moving along!

This is an exciting time to be alive. This country will live up to its promise to the exact extent that we invest our efforts in making it do so. As important as the work that Fitzgerald and McNulty are doing is -- and it is! -- the work that people at the grass-roots level do is actually more important. Their accomplishments mean nothing if we do not breath life into this democracy.

[Me.]

2. My Guess Would Be Nothing

It says he will keep his current job. And the Franklin plead happened after the date of the article so I'd say it's ongoing.

[stop the bleeding]

4. please read this part again

McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation" for the number two Justice Department job, officials said.

Sounds like to me he will have his hands full once he is confirmed and will not be a Prosecutor anymore, this position that he is up for has it's hands in every office and department within the DOJ - this is really big-time position from what I gathered from the Senator's questions and responses from the NPR interview.

I am not familiar with how the chain of command would work with this but it is that:

"McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation" that has me all bothered.

[Me.]

12. Four Months Later

I think he will still be on the case. What may change is how many people he has to do his bidding.

[leveymg]

3. Read the Franklin indictment. Very, very revealing.

McNulty has done a good job in revealing the essence of the OSP-AIPAC case: Israeli espionage and an attempt to plant phony Iran WMD evidence in Pentagon files. See, particularly, pp. 23-24, para 6, linked at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/2/14024/94613

[stop the bleeding]

5. but will he stay on as prosecutor???

McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation" for the number two Justice Department job, officials said.

Sounds like to me he will have his hands full once he is confirmed and will not be a Prosecutor anymore, this position that he is up for has it's hands in every office and department within the DOJ - this is really big-time position from what I gathered from the Senator's questions and responses from the NPR interview.

I am not familiar with how the chain of command would work with this but it is that:

"McNulty will keep his current job and serve as acting deputy attorney general while awaiting Senate confirmation" that has me all bothered.


Lastly I will be able to check your link out a little later today, I have a list of 3 links to sit down and go over today and your's on that list.

Peace!

[woodsprite]

7. All these appts. that * is doing to get justices out of the decision

making process on his admins crimes - well, isn't it alot like Nixon trying to find someone to fire the Attorney Gen'l? (I think that's how it went).

[leveymg]

11. I don't know whether he'll stay. The mosr important part of the case

is perhaps completed, and it really doesn't matter who handles the prosecution of the two AIPAC staffers, as they are the bottom of the totem pole.

Franklin pleaded guilty to the particulars contained in the indictment. The indictment makes it clear Israeli intelligence was conducting a disinformation and influence operation through Franklin at OSP aimed at inserting information about Iran WMDs into Pentagon records. That's essentially the same M.O. as the Niger Yellowcake forgeries.

The critical passage in the Indictment is at pp 23-24, para. 6. http://physics911.net/franklinpdf2.pdf