Kyle Sampson gets to stay in his office with pay until he can find another job

[kurth]

Kyle Sampson Takes One for the Boss
Tue Mar 13, 6:08 PM ET

The Nation -- 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...

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. Howard Hughes had a bunch of bright guys like Kyle working for him. They made sure the late billionaire had fresh Kleenex boxes for his feet so he could walk around in his Las Vegas penthouse and be OK. Kyle is like that. In effect he was seeing to it that his boss, Alberto, had fresh Kleenex boxes to cover his tootsies.

When the media and the Democrats (Is there a difference?) learned about the firings Alberto had no choice. He had to sack his guy. There were tears in his glinty eyes when he did it, but he made sure it was not the kind of firing where the security guards escort you out of the building and take away your parking permit in front of the staff. Kyle Sampson gets to stay in his office with pay until he can find another job. Which shows you that Alberto is not just all about torture. There is another side to him. Like Scooter, Kyle is going to find out that he has friends. They are going to take care of him, too, and it is going to work out. It will work out just fine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070313/cm_thenation/45174914

[DesEtoiles]

1. great. The surge troops need - send him to Iraq. Good job for him.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Maybe he and Rummy can get together and

share some of those "good times" stories while they're in transition. :eyes: