TPMuckraker: Sampson: I Failed to Organize "Political Response"

[maddezmom]

By Paul Kiel - March 17, 2007, 9:11 AM
Boy, has Kyle Sampson learned his lesson, or what? He hasn't resigned because of his role in a scheme to fire prosecutors for political reasons, oh no: he resigned because he didn't succeed in organizing "a more effective political response" to the charges of impropriety. No wonder people thought he'd be the next Karl Rove.


His lawyer, Bradford Berenson put out the following statement last night:

"Kyle did not resign because he had misled anyone at the Justice Department or withheld information concerning the replacement of the U.S. Attorneys. He resigned because, as Chief of Staff, he felt he had let the Attorney General down in failing to appreciate the need for and organize a more effective political response to the unfounded accusations of impropriety in the replacement process. The fact that the White House and Justice Department had been discussing this subject for several years was well-known to a number of other senior officials at the Department, including others who were involved in preparing the Department's testimony to Congress. If this background was not called to Mr. McNulty or Mr. Moschella's attention, it was not because any of these individuals deliberately withheld it from them but rather because no one focused on it or deemed it important at the time. The focus of preparation efforts was on why the U.S. Attorneys had been replaced, not how."

Alberto Gonzales has publicly blamed Sampson for his "mistake" of not sharing "information that he had" with those testifying before Congress.

But according to Sampson, everybody knew. The officials who were about to testify just didn't ask around -- because, he says, they were focused on the "why," not the "how." I think I'd need another statement from Sampson, though, before I could understand how the White House's involvement isn't part of the answer to the question: "Why did the Justice Department fire eight U.S. attorneys?"

Or maybe it's more that they just didn't "deem it important" at the time.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "End Systemic Freedom of Thought. With MANDATORY

brainwashing."

"There is a CORRECT way to think, Citizen Proles, and there are CORRECT concepts to believe.

"So shut up and sit down your noisy American Freedomniks.

We will now commence re-programing you for maximum fealty and efficiency."


- Sincerely, Your De-volutionary Moral Superior,
The Holy Modal Eternally Benevolent and Maximally Profitable Republicon-Christofascist-Corporo Borg

[xchrom]

2. bushco represents a threshhuld in media manipulation

of our country.

the fact that from A to Z no one from this admin and very few repulick party folk in the house or senate can admit to wrong doing on the part of this admin is troubling in the extreme.

[Botany]

3. Sampson & Rove they do look alike

Little scuzz balls who operate like cockroaches always there but trying to stay out
of the light.

They are really marxists "The ends justify the means" is a phrase encompassing two beliefs:
Morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary to achieve morally right outcomes.
Actions can only be considered morally right or wrong by virtue of the morality of the outcome.