re: USA. If "mistakes were made" according to *, isn't he the one who fires and hires?

[ourbluenation]

and if someone else did it isn't that not allowable under the law, after all, they serve at the pleasure of the president, right?

am i missing something here?

if mistakes were made, they were The Deciders mistakes, right?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Well yes

but also every time they start using that langugae, follwed by we have full confidence on insert administration member here, we know their time is short

[ourbluenation]

2. i'm so tired I'm not being clear...my point is that removing the USA's w/out * approval is illegal.

AG said they were done w/out wh knowledge, for performance reasons. and the wh has said as much...the president was not involved. who tf gave the ag the authority to do that when they "serve at the pleasure of the president"?

i'm not making any sense...time for nighty night.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. No

all political appointees serve at the pleasure of the President, but presumably also at the pleasure of the department secretary. There's nothing illegal about firing the prosecutors - it's the way they lied about it that's the problem.

[ourbluenation]

5. are you sure? I thought in the end of the day it was he who fired and hired, technically speaking

yet he apparently had no hand in it, making the whole thing illegally done.

[TheConstantGardener]

4. That's also the DLC's line on Iraq

"Great war, but incompetently handled. Mistakes were made."

I hate this line with a passion...