White House OK'd Mass Attorney Firings (Washington Post, via Truthout)

[marmar]

White House Backed US Attorney Firings, Officials Say
By John Solomon and Dan Eggen
The Washington Post

Saturday 03 March 2007

The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies on immigration, firearms and other issues, White House and Justice Department officials said yesterday.

The list of prosecutors was assembled last fall, based largely on complaints from members of Congress, law enforcement officials and career Justice Department lawyers, administration officials said.

One of the complaints came from Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), who specifically raised concerns with the Justice Department last fall about the performance of then-U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias of New Mexico, according to administration officials and Domenici's office.

Iglesias has alleged that two unnamed New Mexico lawmakers pressured him in October to speed up the indictments of Democrats before the elections. Domenici has declined to comment on that allegation.

Since the mass firings were carried out three months ago, Justice Department officials have consistently portrayed them as personnel decisions based on the prosecutors' "performance-related" problems. But, yesterday, officials acknowledged that the ousters were based primarily on the administration's unhappiness with the prosecutors' policy decisions and revealed the White House's role in the matter.

"At the end of the day, this was a decision to pick the prosecutors we felt would most effectively carry out the department's policies and priorities in the last two years," said Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030307Z.shtml

[aquart]

1. Is this enough to indict Domenici?

Seems to me that an orange jumpsuit is just waiting for that man.

[Peace Patriot]

2. I think this was a test run for the firing of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald,

and if it is permitted to stand, he will be next--fired directly by Bush (the only one who has the technical power to do so)--whether Scooter Libby is convicted or not--because all indications are that Fitzgerald is continuing the investigation in any event. His target pretty clearly is Dick Cheney, and possibly Bush as well.

The firing of the US Attorneys should be evidence enough that we have suffered a fascist coup, but firing of Fitzgerald would make it extremely clear. The coup mechanism was Diebold and ES&S--rightwing Bushite electronic voting corporations "counting" all our votes with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, fast-tracked into place during the 2002 to 2004 period, to create a phony endorsement for the war on the Middle East. Now we have a Congress that is almost entirely beholden to these corporations for their power, whether they would have been elected anyway, or not. They can be UN-elected. And they clearly are not going to change the coup mechanism. (They are going to lard Diebold/ES&S with more billions to "fix" the election system that they deliberately broke).

We need to learn some lessons from the many South American countries that have now elected strong leftist (majorityist) governments:

1. TRANSPARENT elections.*
2. Grass roots organization.
3. Think big.

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*(Venezuela handcounts FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT of the ballots, cuz they don't trust the electronic voting machines--which are OPEN SOURCE! Know how much WE handcount as a check on voting totals from SECRETLY coded, rightwing Bushite corporate-controlled voting systems? You need to find out.)