Sen. Schumer questions if White House involved in US Atty. purge - wants Rove to testify

[RiverStone]

In a new statement, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to call on top White House aide Karl Rove to testify over the U.S. Attorney purge. The White House acknowledged yesterday that Rove “served as a conduit for complaints about federal prosecutors. From Schumer’s statement:

“The more we learn, the more it seems that people at high levels in the White House have been involved in the U.S. Attorney purge,” Schumer said. … “There’s an emerging pattern that is extremely disturbing and everyday the sanctity of U.S. Attorneys as neutral enforcers of law without fear or favor is diminished,” Schumer said. “We will get to bottom of this.”

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went through the record on Rove’s involvement in his column today:

Sources told Newsweek that the list of prosecutors to be fired was drawn up by Mr. Gonzales’s chief of staff, “with input from the White House.” And Allen Weh, the chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party, told McClatchy News that he twice sought Karl Rove’s help — the first time via a liaison, the second time in person — in getting David Iglesias, the state’s U.S. attorney, fired for failing to indict Democrats. “He’s gone,” he claims Mr. Rove said.

more:

http://thinkprogress.org/

[ReadTomPaine]

1. Let's make sure it's under oath this time, as well. n/t

[Ian David]

2. The Pearl Harbor Day Massacre.

We've finally got a name for the scandal, thanks to Sam Sedar today.

[ReadTomPaine]

3. I prefer "The Pearl Harbor Purge" myself...

but "massacre" is nicely evocative of the Nixon years.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x392797#393792

[Ian David]

4. Exactly the point. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

5. "Purge" works very nicely

Like purging crawfish. Force water down their gullet so they puke up dirt, then boil them alive, throw em on a picnic table, pinch their tails, then suck the liquid fat out of their heads; then chuck the remains in the bayou to be cleaned up by scanvenger fish. It couldn't happen to a more deserving group of human beings.

[ReadTomPaine]

6. Mmmmmm. Shellgamefish.

;)

[Singular73]

7. Maybe I'm missing something....

Why would it matter if Rove was involved. Wouldn't you expect him to be? Don't AG's work at the pleasure of the President?

What Wilson and Dominici did was unethical, but not illegal, correct?

[Lochloosa]

8. Because of what Gonzales testified

That is was for professional reasons not political reasons.

If that were true why would rove be involved at all.

[Gelliebeans]

9. Bingo Lochloosa

It seems that Gonzo got caught in a little lie.