The Nation: Kyle Sampson Takes One for the Boss (Gonzales)

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BLOG | Posted 03/13/2007 @ 5:08pm
Kyle Sampson Takes One for the Boss
Nicholas von Hoffman


I. Lewis Libby has a new cellmate, so to speak. His name is D. Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's newly sacked former chief of staff. Like Scooter over in the VP's office, Kyle at the Justice Department has been asked to take one for the team.

It was Kyle who lined up the seven US District Attorneys and fired them because of their failure to indict enough Democrats fast enough for last fall's election. He apparently did the job without telling his boss who was polishing his thumb screws and working on a new device for pulling out the toenails of terror suspects. Some matters must be left to underlings.

Gonzales explained at a press conference today that you just cannot be everywhere all the time "when you have 110,000 people working in the department, obviously there are going to be decisions made that I'm not aware of in real time." You have to delegate to free yourself up to work on the big things such as making habeas corpus go away.

Hence it fell to Kyle Sampson to get rid of the federal prosecutors without bothering the boss. Kyle was the right person to do it. He's a Mormon, a Brigham Young University graduate. You can depend on them. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=174914

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1. The toadie wanted the Utah job by being bootlicker

the lil' lackie wanted to get the USA job, without even being a prosecuter. That he deserved it just by being a campaign worker. F+++ him, send his ass to Iraq

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2. Send them all to Iraq.

Pluck beef eating bush outta South America and throw some body armor on him and he's good to go.

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4. Why give that clown bastard any body armor? No one else has any.

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5. Exactly.

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3. I look at Sampson as being totally out of control in his own

right. The whole business of wanting the Utah USA job, even though he has never actually worked as a real prosecuting attorney is too much.