Just Released: E-MAIL THAT SHOWS ATTORNEY PURGE ORIGINATED WITH ROVE

[kpete]

Email: Most USAs Are "Loyal Bushies"
By Paul Kiel - March 15, 2007, 6:53 PM

As reported earlier on ABC News, here is the email that shows that the whole U.S. attorney purge scheme originated with Karl Rove.

In the email, which has the subject line "Re: Question from Karl Rove," Kyle Sampson, who was then at the Justice Department, discusses with then-deputy White House Counsel David Leitch the idea of replacing "15-20 percent of the current U.S. Attorneys," because "80-85 percent, I would guess, are doing a great job, are loyal Bushies, etc."

"If Karl thinks there would be policitical will to do it, then so do I," Sampson concludes.

Sampson's email was in response to Leitch's relaying of Rove's query about how the administration would handle the U.S. Attorneys. As paraphrased by Colin Newman, a legal aide in the White House counsel's office, Rove asked "how we planned to proceed regarding US Attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resingations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc."


E-mail correspondence between David Leitch and Kyle Sampson regarding idea of replacing United States Attorneys
03-15-2007

Copy of E-MAIL HERE: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/sampsonrove-email/

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002778.php

[kestrel91316]

1. Stalin must be SO PROUD of these thugs.

[opihimoimoi]

2. National Interest or Self Interest??? Clearly these Pubs are not for the National Interests...

[POAS]

6. You see and hear it everyday in their speech.

Loyalty to Bush equals loyalty to country. To the ditto heads on the right those are inseperable.

It also helps explain their general distain for anything Liberal where individual initiative and arriving at decisions through concensus are preferred, as opposed to deference to an authority figure which the Republics prefer!

[opihimoimoi]

14. What is in their Cool Aide that fosters this line of Reasoning??? Is it a Bug of some sort?

What is it?

An unknown gene which promotes Delusion and rejects Reality/Evidence....?

Are they Aliens?

Goodness Knows

We should be looking for a cure and/or a vaccine....

[Tom Joad]

3. Loyal Bushies.... Prediction-- "Bushies" named word of the year for 2007

They call themselves "Bushies"!
I predict this term will be one of words of the year... "Bushies"!

It will be repeated over and over through the impeachment hearings.

[wryter2000]

5. Amazing, huh?

There it is in a nutshell. They admit they're keeping "loyal Bushies." :wow:

[POAS]

8. Just like they call themselves "dittoheads" n/t

[Emit]

7. Loyal Bushies....that jumped right out at me, as well.

And, I asked myself the same damned question, "They call themselves "Bushies"!?"

[jelly]

16. I vote for "oversight."

A new day has dawned. And boy do I like it.

[Tom Joad]

4. Gonzo and Rove are so cooked... but that's just the beginning.

[druidity33]

9. well if that's not a smoking gun...

WHAT IS?

K&R dammit!

[Tom Joad]

11. It's a freakin smokin cannon!

Few Republicans are going to be able to defend this with a straight face.

[Gregorian]

10. Whoopsies.

At the pleasure of the president. That sounds so monarchistic.

And those "underperforming attorneys". Gosh, what's the definition of underperforming?

Josh is kicking ass!

[redacted]

12. What a catch Kpete!

Thank you for monitoring all these feeds! HOW do you keep up?

:yourock: :woohoo: :applause: :headbang: :pals:

[Melissa G]

13. kpete, you are utterly amazing! Great Find! made my evening! n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

15. K/R

!!

[IWantAChange]

17. Anyone have the Olbermann video from last night where he followed this 'trail?'

[Roland99]

18. "Heckuva job, Turdblossom"