Purged Prosecutor - DOJ Called Him In December: "Keep Quiet & We Won't Say Anything Bad About You"

[kpete]

One of the purged prosecutors says he got a call in December from the Justice Department. The message: keep quiet and the attorney general won't say anything bad about you.

Now another prosecutor, Seattle's John McKay, says he got a similar call much earlier, before the firings had even been reported. From Newsweek:

After McKay was fired in December, he says he also got a phone call from a "clearly nervous" Elston asking if he intended to go public: "He was offering me a deal: you stay silent and the attorney general won't say anything bad about you."

As with his chat with Cummins, Elston doesn't deny that he made the call. But he tells Newsweek, that he "can't imagine" how McKay interpreted the call that way.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002720.php

[ck4829]

1. This is blackmail, pure and simple.