Iglesias: "I don’t know that you’ve seen this many top people leaving—maybe not since Watergate"

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20465741/site/newsweek/page/4/

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The eventual nominee will have to deal with the fallout from Gonzales’s tenure—both in coping with the results of the ongoing investigations and rebuilding morale in a department that remains badly shaken by the controversies surrounding Gonzales, which triggered the resignations of many top department officials. (In addition to the ongoing investigation by inspector general Fine—which is being conducted jointly with the Office of Professional Responsibility—there is an internal probe into whether a former top Gonzales staffer, Monica Goodling, improperly used political considerations in the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges. The House Judiciary Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Office of Special Counsel, and the Senate Ethics Committee are conducting investigations into various aspects of the U.S. attorney purge and the surveillance program. “The morale has never been as bad as its been in recent months,” said Iglesias. “You have the attorney general, the deputy attorney, the head of the civil rights division, top staffers all resigning. I don’t know that you’ve seen this many top people leaving—maybe not since Watergate.”

[Tempest]

1. In the immortal words of John Dean

This is "worse than Watergate".

[BOSSHOG]

2. The consistent george bush

fucks up the economy, fucks up the war, fucks up teri schiavo, fucks up the country; he even has time to fuck up the morale of one of his cabinet member's staff.

[Richard D]

3. (sitting on bended knees, hands folded in supplication) . . .

. . . oh please please please let one of them tell everything.