Specter staff asking DOJ for talking points to use during investigation!

[BR_Parkway]

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From the big document dump:

Specter's position: use DOJ talking points
interesting email
january 25, 2007
from: Rebecca Seidel to: 10 different DOJ people

re: SJC hearing on USA firings
(the first hearing, february 2007)

"just got off the phone with Matt miner on Specter's staff who called to discuss the hearing. He said we will be getting an invite shortly. Has there been further thought on the DOJ witness?
He asked for a few things......

He is organizing a republican amendment strategy so the dems don't divide and conquer. he asked if we have any amendments to please draft and get them to him. I re-sent him the talking points (as he had given his copy away) he realized we had a lot of info in there.

so specter wants the DOJ to actually write the amendments, and uses their talking points directly. This says to me that he should be relieved of his position in this particular investigation! He is asking the very people he is supposed to be investigating to write his talking points...

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[Old and In the Way]

1. Amazing, no?

Arlen Spector is no moderate Republican...he's just a Republican who is willing to be stage directed. Is there any honest Republicans left in Congress who can think for themselves?

I love how he voted for fixing the USA rider on letting the AG select replacements without Senate oversight...after he allowed that provision to be slipped into the bill.

[atreides1]

2. And Specter wants a 6th term

This revelation will prove that the man is a two faced lying sack of crap, and I'm sure that the good people of Pennsylvania can't wait to give him more time to screw the country.

[sharp_stick]

3. Specter is one of the biggest forked tongues in the GOP

He talks a big game about being independent but as soon as the shrub cabal tells him to bend over he's off and doing whatever they want him to. I'm not the least surprised about this and don't doubt its authenticity, he strikes me as just the kind of guy who would love to let the DOJ write their own amendments.

IIRC he's also the prick that slipped in the little provision to the "patriot" act that let the criminal white house replace US attorneys without Senate confirmation.

I used to have a little respect for this asshole but it all went out the window when he started to allow shrub to advance Supreme Court and Cabinet nominees with zero oversight under his watch as the minimalist majority leader on his committees since 2002.

[lyonn]

8. This is too much fun. Specter has been playing this game of

acting like he is working both sides of the fence and then goes down like a groopy chicken for the bushies when push comes to shove. Is there one Repub. that can be trusted? Nope, only worse than I suspected.

[fooj]

4. Throw the rat bastard OFF the committee.

[wicket]

5. Just when you think it can't get any worse for them....it does!

:rofl:

[SaveOurDemocracy]

6. Not surprising ...

but absolutely despicable! Specter's a tool ... he presents himself as a champion of the Constitution and the rule of law just to run interference for his handlers. I've seen his performance, and been sorely disappointed, too many times to believe anything he does is genuine. As a Pennsylvanian, I'd like to see him join Santorum.

[oldtime dfl_er]

9. exactly

his fake outrage has become tiresome.

[Cobalt-60]

18. but how does he keep it up?

Is there a viagra variant that keeps your hypocrisy firm?

[napi21]

7. I know the Dems don't use "talking points" like the Pubs do, but I

wonder if the Dems don't also consult with the different Depts too when there is a Dem Prez?

All I mean is, it's not necessarily bad for a Senator to consult with a Dept. on what their wishesare BEFORE proposing ammendments etc. I don't see that as wrong by itself.

Where it becomes wrong is when there is a conspiracy to coverup a wrongdoing.

[lyonn]

10. I considered this same issue, the problems are "talking points" instead of

having a conference to discuss the issues. The Dems certainly asked Clinton questions during his impeachment hearings, to be expected, but this crowd has a list of do's and don'ts, not discussions or explainations. No thinking required under those rules.

[robinlynne]

11. I disagree. Specter is supposed to be investigating the DOJ. HE asks Justice

for a list of ammendments THEY would like. He needs to be recused from this debate now. He is supposed to represent the senate judiciary. not the justice department.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

12. Agreed ...

:grr:

[autorank]

13. During imipeachment, Nixon said Sen Howard Baker, R-KY would take care of him.

"What did you know and when did you know it?" was, I think, the same question Baker asked over and over. He was pissed off when that came out, at the hearings with Baker sitting there. Very pissed.

Now Specter is voluntarily risking everything to help this madman.

If this is what it appears to be, and I'm not quite there yet, then it's time for him to resign.

This is malfeasance!

[Supersedeas]

14. History repeats itself

[yodermon]

15. was specter the jfk "magic bullet" inventor,

or am i mistaken?

[w4rma]

16. I think so. (nt)

[AX10]

17. A Republican is a Republican. He also wants to run for another...

term in 2010. We should field a top grade candidate to take him out.