DOJ Report On U.S. Attorney Firings To Be Issued Monday

[L. Coyote]

DOJ Report On U.S. Attorney Firings To Be Issued Monday
By Zachary Roth - September 26, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/doj_report_on_us_attorney_firi.php


The Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General will on Monday morning release on its website its report into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, according to David Iglesias, one of the former U.S. attorneys whose firing is at issue.

Iglesias told TPMmuckraker that he had been notified about the report's imminent release by Mark Masling, one of the investigators on the case. Iglesias said Masling told him that the report, which has been in the works since March 2007, is "very long" but wouldn't offer further details.

The probe, which centers on the firing of Iglesias and seven other U.S. attorneys, expanded to address allegations that a DOJ official, Monica Goodling, illegally took party affiliation into account in the hiring and firing federal prosecutors.

In July, Iglesias made some predictions about the reports conclusions ..............

[Phred42]

1. DOJ investigating the DOJ

:crazy:

can't wait

[WarbirdForObama]

2. Bush's DOJ?

Wow, I'll hold my breath for a real Hard Hitting Report.

Face it, it's a bunch of Bushies writing a report about another bunch of Bushies firing a bunch of Non-Bushies.

"Zey vere obeyink orderz"

[L. Coyote]

3. Report: Gonzo Told Investigators That Bush Directed Him To Ashcroft's Hospital Bed

Report: Gonzo Told Investigators That Bush Directed Him To Ashcroft's Hospital Bed
By Zachary Roth - September 26, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/report_bush_directed_gonzo_to.php


Murray Waas reports on the website of the Atlantic that Alberto Gonzales is now telling investigators that he was being personally directed by President Bush when, as White House counsel, Gonzales made a much-discussed late-night visit in 2004 to the hospital room of then Attorney General John Ashcroft, in order to get Ashcroft to certify that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program was legal.

During Congressional testimony last year, Gonzales repeatedly refused to answer persistent questioning from Sen. Chuck Schumer as to whether the president, or Vice President Cheney, had directed him to seek out Ashcroft in the hospital. ........

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Murray Waas
What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809u/gonzales-investigation

In March 2004, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales made a now-famous late-night visit to the hospital room of Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking to get Ashcroft to sign a certification stating that the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was legal. According to people familiar with statements recently made by Gonzales to federal investigators, Gonzales is now saying that George Bush personally directed him to make that hospital visit.
The hospital visit is already central to many contemporaneous historical accounts of the Bush presidency. At the time of the visit, Ashcroft had been in intensive care for six days, was heavily medicated, and was recovering from emergency surgery to remove his gall bladder. Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey has said that he believes that Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who accompanied Gonzales to Ashcroft’s hospital room, were trying to take advantage of Ashcroft’s grievously ill state—pressing him to sign the certification possibly without even comprehending what he was doing—and in the process authorize a government surveillance program which both Ashcroft and the Justice Department had concluded was of questionable legality.

Gonzales has also told Justice Department investigators that President Bush played a more central and active role than was previously known in devising a strategy to have Congress enable the continuation of the surveillance program when questions about its legality were raised .......

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The Case of the Gonzales Notes
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809u/gonzales-notes

Did Alberto Gonzales create a set of fictitious notes to justify the reauthorization of Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program? By Murray Waas

[Wilber_Stool]

4. I'm hanging

on every word,:sarcasm: