Ex-Gonzales # 2 (Comey): Make Fitzgerald Attorney General !!!

[WillyT]

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The former top deputy to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales suggested that Special Prosecutor and US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald should be Attorney General of the United States, according to a report in Bloomberg News.

"I think he would make a spectacular attorney general," former Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Comey told the news service's Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos in a Friday article. "He certainly is one of the very best federal prosecutors in America."

Comey, who served as Deputy Attorney General from 2003-2005 under both Gonzales and John Ashcroft now works in the private sector with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He recently re-emerged into public view when the Senate and House Judiciary Committees subpoenaed him to receive testimony about a hospital bed confrontation between Gonzales, then White House Counsel, and Ashcroft over a domestic spying program that Comey refused to certify as legal.

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Link: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExGonzales_no._2_Make_Fitzgerald_Attorney_0720.html

I know this got posted on Friday night, but I also know I missed it totally and it sunk like a rock.

Props to Fitz AND Attorney Comey!!!

We should be so lucky... oh that's right, we once were.

:mad:

[MadMaddie]

1. When the Democratic Party wins the Presidency in 08

this should be the first order of business.....Attorney General of the United States Mr. Fitzgerald. Yea...I like the sound of that.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. Fitz is a Republican.

So being Attorney General for a Democratic president is not likely. But it would be a great statement of depoliticizing the Justice Department.

However, if they had gotten rid (or get rid of) Gonzales, Fitz would be a great replacement.

[Missy Vixen]

6. Patrick Fitzgerald is not a Republican

I'll donate $50 to DU for the first person that can provide documented proof (GOP party records or voting records, for instance,) that Mr. Fitzgerald is a Republican. IT DOESN'T EXIST. He has said REPEATEDLY that he specifically registered "Independent" in New York. When he discovered it was actually a party, he deliberately reregistered with "no party" affiliation. He did the same in Chicago.

H2OMan and I are tired of repeating, over and over, that no, he is not a Republican. BTW, James Comey says that HE is a Republican, but I'd be happy to have him as the Attorney General.

In the meantime, whomever names PJF as AG would have to have a cast iron stomach and be squeaky clean, because he wouldn't hesitate to go after them if they weren't.

Julie

[pnwmom]

7. I like the sound of Attorney General Robert Kennedy

for some reason.

:shrug:

[G_Leo_Criley]

2. k&r

I missed this too. Thanks for posting it!

:kick:

glc

[MrMickeysMom]

3. There'd be a new sherrif in this town (spit)

... and a whole lotta CLEAN'N UP!

:thumbsup:

[WillyT]

4. LOL !!! - Pitueee...

:hi:

[MrMickeysMom]

8. That's the ticket!