Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Official

[Eugene]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/01/national/w133320D81.DTL

Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Official

By KEN THOMAS, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, September 1, 2005

(09-01) 13:33 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the
Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose
nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval
facility.

Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to
lead the agency's criminal division. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had
blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named
Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the U.S.
military prison camp at Guantanamo.

The agent wrote that in weekly meetings with Justice Department
officials "we often discussed (Defense Department) techniques and how
they were not effective or producing (intelligence) that was
reliable." In the next sentence, the agent said Fisher, then the No. 2
official in the criminal division, was among Justice officials who
attended the meetings.

Fisher has said she does not recall participating in the discussions,
and Justice officials have said the agent did not intend to say she
had. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declined to let senators
question the agent, saying it would violate long-standing policy.

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[Freddie Stubbs]

1. Guess he actually has been doing some work whicl on vacation

[Newsjock]

2. dupe

darn, got beat by one minute.

[Newsjock]

3. He couldn't even wait ONE MORE DAY

for the Senate to go back into session. Utter disregard for America.

[Tesla]

5. That was the whole idea, do it before Congress got back.

[shanti]

28. exactly

the hurricane threw a wrench in the works. *ush was probably planning this way before, but since congress will shortly convene because of katrina, felt that time was of the essence. :grr:

[underpants]

12. *** DATA DUMP ***

I wonder what else is being slid by the press right now.

[krkaufman]

24. Exactly. He really hearts those Katrina victims. n/t

[MADem]

31. BINGO--he had to HURRY and do it before they got back! nt

[Tanuki]

4. Wednesday?

"Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to lead the agency's criminal division."
Thank you. Now we see why he went back to Washington on Wednesday; it wasn't about dealing with the catastrophic aftermath of the hurricane at all.

[Tesla]

8. Thats why he couldn't "pencil it in" till Friday.....

SCUM!!!!

[Oreo]

6. Bush made a recess appointment while babies died

You are a spineless sorry excuse for a person.

I'd bet he went to bed by 8 and slept like a baby

[demo dutch]

7. He's got time to deal with those things? amazing!

[Tesla]

10. I get mor upset the more I think about it!!!!

[BattyDem]

9. He's doing this with every person he wants in place

and Congress says nothing. They should just go home. They're not representing us and Bush completely bypasses them all the time, so what the f*ck are we paying them for? :grr:

[Karenina]

11. "Hey ROCKY! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!!!"

"What, AGAIN?"
"Nothing up my sleeve..."

[Hobarticus]

15. No doubt 'bout it...we gotta get a new hat.

Hopefully one with a real POTUS under it.

[Vox_Reason]

13. What a worthless scumbag.

Fiddling while his country burns, and then skirting the democratic process to install more fascists while citizens are distracted.

What an utter and completly worthless scumbag.

[durablend]

14. Watch out for SS Reform

I've got no doubt that he's going to slip that through while nobody's looking

[rodeodance]

16. so another one. damn

[shanti]

29. i would BET on it

he's not going to let ANYTHING get in the way of his SS plan. that is the cornerstone of his "pResidency".

[Oreegone]

17. Wondered what he was doing

Since they made him quit playing golf he had to do something to further screw things up.

[NYC Liberal]

18. THOUSANDS ARE DEAD AND DYING AND BUSH IS WORRIED ABOUT THAT??

NOLA is in chaos, there's no law or order and he's fucking spending his time filling some spot at the Justice Department.

I have HAD IT with this fucking so-called "president" IMPEACH now!

[Blaq Dem]

32. If you think that's something, Prick Chaney is going to a WW2 vet. party

All while thousands in NO are left to die in the streets.

[Up2Late]

19. This guy has NO shame what so ever.

[slay]

20. How long are the American people going to have to put up with this crap?

Our government is being dismantled and destroyed before our eyes. :(

[Amonester]

21. "Fisher has said she does not recall..." DOES NOT RECALL???

WHAT??

"Fisher has said she does not recall participating in the discussions"

There they go again... :grr:

[Up2Late]

27. They've been using that excuse ever since Regan got a pass from the...

...American People with it.:mad:

[Supersedeas]

22. violate long standing policy???

[Jon8503]

23. Bush bypasses Senate to install Justice Dept. official

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility.
Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to lead the agency's criminal division. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo.

The agent wrote that in weekly meetings with Justice Department officials "we often discussed (Defense Department) techniques and how they were not effective or producing (intelligence) that was reliable." In the next sentence, the agent said Fisher, then the No. 2 official in the criminal division, was among Justice officials who attended the meetings.

Fisher has said she does not recall participating in the discussions, and Justice officials have said the agent did not intend to say she had. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declined to let senators question the agent, saying it would violate long-standing policy.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-01-recess-appointment_x.htm

[The Backlash Cometh]

25. Someone should just tell him we'll pay for a one way ticket to

any place outside the U.S. and we will leave him alone as long as he never returns.

[electron_blue]

26. the true reason he ran in from recess early

Fellow Americans - suppose you are President and it is your first day back on the job after 4 weeks of vacation, only to return to a country whose had a major city wiped off the map, hundreds of thousands of citizens in dire need. What is at the top of your "to do" list?

Bush decides to Appoint Alice.

[wellstone_democrat]

30. glad he's keeping busy

it sooooo important

[jarab]

33. kick

...O...

[BR_Parkway]

34. Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Official

Even while people are dying, he takes time to tell the congress FU, I'm going to do what I want. Spoiled brat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/01/AR2005090101449.html

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility.

Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to lead the agency's criminal division. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo.

The agent wrote that in weekly meetings with Justice Department officials "we often discussed (Defense Department) techniques and how they were not effective or producing (intelligence) that was reliable." In the next sentence, the agent said Fisher, then the No. 2 official in the criminal division, was among Justice officials who attended the meetings.

Fisher has said she does not recall participating in the discussions, and Justice officials have said the agent did not intend to say she had. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declined to let senators question the agent, saying it would violate long-standing policy.

[fasttense]

35. Now we know the REAL Reason brush cut his vacation short. n/t

[struggle4progress]

36. More important than NOLA to him, obviously. eom