How Many Resignations? A short list of about 60. Who can you add? Libby, Rove, Gonzo....

[L. Coyote]

The question came up in another thread, "How many Resignations?"

The answer is not easy. I tired of trying to think of them all.
I could work on this list all day, and it would still be incomplete!

Gonzales, Rove, Melman, Libby, Powell, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Miers, Harvey, Goodling, McNulty, Taylor
Bartlett, Nicholson, Pace, Portman, Mercer, Berenson, Ashcroft, Battle, Griffin, Comey, Kim, Elston,
Mercer, Schlozman, Ralston, Goodling, Sampson, Ring, Foggo, Card, Hughes, McCallum, Keisler, Safavian,
Norton, Griles, Federici, Flanigan, Wolfowitz, Tenet, Yoo, Philbin, Tobias, MacDonald, Cambone, Feith,
Perle, Hadley, Woolsey, Scully, Smith, Foster, Fleischer, O'Neill, Snow, Zinni, McClellan, Kaplan, Scalia,
Olson, White, Veneman, Clarke

Congress: Hastert, Domenici, Ney, DeLay, Frist, Cunningham, Lott

STILL WAITING: Stevens, Graig, Lewis, Vitter

[tekisui]

1. Armitage.

[cmd]

2. Ney

[L. Coyote]

3. Got Ney, but a prisoner number would be entertaining LOL

[cmd]

4. 28882-016

I had to Google it just out of curiousity.

TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Bob Ney
Ex-Rep Bob Ney (R-OH) heads to prison today, where he'll spend the next thirty ... robert ney inmate number 28882-016 fci morgantown 446 greenbag road ...
www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/bob_ney/ - 63k - Cached - Similar pages

[malaise]

5. And many would not have resigned were it not for pressure

from Conyers and Leahy.

[L. Coyote]

8. It is the Oversight Purge of the corrupt criminals tha really adds up. YEA DEMS!

The 2006 voters did the "correct" thing. (I hate the word "right" for some reason.)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Whitman, O'Neill

[juajen]

7. Which Scalia?

n/t

[L. Coyote]

10. Eugene Scalia, Bush Solicitor of Labor and anti-labor lawyer

Eugene Scalia (son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) anti-labor lawyer with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP who became Solicitor of Labor in January 2002 through a George W. Bush recess appointment after the Senate refused to confirm the nomination. He resigned in January 2003, shortly after the appointment expired, in order to avoid what would have been a bruising Senate confirmation hearing.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eugene_Scalia

In a scathing condemnation of Scalia's appointment Paul Wellstone said it was part of the Bush administration's direct assault on American workers. He said "the Solicitor of Labor is responsible for enforcing the most fundamental worker protection measures on the books." He went on to say "Mr. Scalia's professional record of antipathy toward the laws and principles that it would be his job to carry out make this a mismatch. He has been opposed throughout his career to what I see as the very mission of the Solicitor of Labor, who is not just the Department of Labor's lawyer, but is really the lawyer for workers throughout the entire country." <11> Wellstone's denunciation was widely echoed by labor rights supporters from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to the AFL-CIO. One writer noted: "The fact that Scalia is now the Labor Department's chief lawyer--the man who, in principle, represents worker interests in court--is the kind of thing a satirist would never dare invent." <12>

In opposing Scalia's nomination Senator Kennedy, noting "serious concerns" about Scalia's anti-labor record, said Scalia:

* has never filed comments in support of a pro-worker regulation.
* has said that employers should not be strictly liable in sexual harassment cases unless they expressly endorse the conduct of the harasser, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has held that employers are in fact liable for supervisor harassment in many cases.
* has encouraged employers to challenge so-called "liberal" EEOC interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act when they are inconsistent with "sensible business practice." (Kennedy noted that, as Solicitor, Mr. Scalia would refer cases to the EEOC and have a role in defining "sensible business practice.")
* has said that employees should pay for their own safety equipment, when the equipment is required by law.
* has argued that union workplaces should be exempted from certain workplace laws, such as regular OSHA inspections and the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. ("But," Kennedy noted, "if we follow this logic, union workers would not be protected by the same minimum standard of rights provided to non-union workers -- thereby undermining the basic function of labor laws to provide a floor of rights for all workers." <13>

[cascadiance]

9. Add the following...

Others to add (some of these are suspicious, others are of course in protest):

David Burtt and Joseph Hefferon of CIFA (resigned on the same day suspiciously)
Ann Wright - deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
John Brady Kiesling - Bush's Foreign Service Corps and Political Counselor to the American embassy in Greece
John H. Brown - Cultural Atache, Moscow
James Robertson - FISA Court
David Kay - Chief United States weapons hunter in Iraq
Scott Ritter - Chief U.S. arms inspector in Iraq
Lanny Davis - Democratic member of the president’s civil liberties watchdog board
Pete Wehner - White House Director of Strategic Initiatives
J.D. Crouch - White House Deputy National Security Adviser
Rosario Marin - U.S. Treasurer
Timothy Hannapel - Deputy Counsel of U.S. Office of Special Counsel
Christie Whitman - EPA administrator
Linda Fisher - EPA deputy administrator
Richard Haass - State Department's director for policy planning
Paul Redmond - U.S. Spy catcher
Peter Fisher - U.S. Treasury undersecretary
Admiral Poindexter
Larry Thompson - Deputy Attorney General
Jack Pritchard - top State Department expert on North Korea
Robert W. Jordan - U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Thomas E. Novotny - Top US Negotiator for Global Tobacco Treaty
Bradley A. Buckles - director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
John Korsmo - chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board
Robert Card - (not related to Andrew Card) under secretary in Energy Dept. who managed $74 million program to aid nuclear weapons workers
Beverly Cook - asst. to Robert Card
Otto Reich - White House special envoy for Latin America
James Pavitt - deputy director for operations in CIA
Alan Foley - top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction
Jessie Roberson - Assistant Energy Secretary
Robert P. Liscouski - Homeland Security department's assistant secretary for infrastructure protection
Martin Sullivan - chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property
Gary Vikan - member of President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property

Cabinet:
Donald Evans - Sec. of Commerce
Tommy Thompson - Sec. of Human Services
Melquiades R. Martinez - Sec. of H.U.D.
Norman Y. Mineta - Sec. of Transportation (though he was a Dem)
Spencer Abraham - Sec. of Energy
Roderick R. Paige - Sec. of Education
Anthony Principi - Sec. of Veteran's Affairs
Tom Ridge - Sec. of Homeland Security
Mike Johanns - Sec. of Agriculture

U.S. Attorneys (*FORCED* resignations)
Carol Lam
David Iglesias
Margaret Chiara
Paul K. Charlton
Kevin Ryan
John McKay
Bud Cummins
Daniel Bogden
Debra Wong Yang (maybe not forced, but conveniently resigned)

How could you forget from congress:
Mark Foley
Billy Tauzin - went back to the corporate revolving door in Pharma business after crafting the crafty Medicare bill

[L. Coyote]

11. Thanks.

[wiggs]

13. Good list. Google Keislings resignation letter sometime for a true picture of what people were

thinking in 2003.

[L. Coyote]

19. A segment taken from Kiesling letter of resignation.

"Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson."

[robinlynne]

12. and the head of the EAC, republican,resigned because it was so corrupt (not him).

can't remember his anme, but he was a Bush appointee.

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14. Add the first faith based initiative head...forget his name. nt

[Roland99]

15. What about folks like Gen. Downing (replaced Clarke at one point) or Michael Scheuer (CIA)

or other high-level CIA/NSA types that left during this admin.

[L. Coyote]

16. Apparently, some categories would be useful, i.e. crooks versus protestors

Albeit, we know which is the larger group.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. But...but...the Democrats have done nothing! Why did all of them resign?

[L. Coyote]

20. That was my point. I tire of the "nothinglies"

from nothingly AND nothing lies

[DireStrike]

18. Most all rewarded and replaced with someone just as bad. -nt-