Gonzales & Admin LIED AGAIN-Under Oath-WH Moved Forward With Plan To "GUM TO DEATH" Attorney Process

[kpete]

White House Moves Forward With Plan To ‘Gum To Death’ U.S. Attorney Process

On Jan. 18, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee, under oath, that “with respect to every United States attorney position in this country, we will have a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed United States attorney.”

But e-mails reveal that the Justice Department was already planning to install Karl Rove-protege Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney in Arkansas by taking advantage of a Patriot Act provision that allows the President to appoint “interim” U.S. attorneys for indefinite periods of time, bypassing the Senate confirmation process altogether.

The administration understood that its plan to skirt Congress would be met with severe criticism. In a Dec. 19 email, Sampson wrote to a White House aide, explaining the administration’s strategy for countering the criticism:


We should gum this to death. Ask the senators to give Tim a chance…then we can tell them we’ll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in “good faith,” of course.


With little attention, this scenario is exactly what is playing out now, as the White House is running out the clock to keep Griffin in office.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/17/griffin-white-house/

[kestrel91316]

1. I especially like this part:

".......All of this should be done in 'good faith', of course....."

They are making a MOCKERY out of acting in good faith. They KNOW they are flouting the law.

[vickitulsa]

2. Does "gum this to death" imply that they no longer have teeth

to keep a firm hold on their ill-gotten gains during this administration?

Certainly that email reveals a lot about how these snakes plan well in advance to head off opposition to their nefarious plots.

What I'm seeing lately is the convincing buildup of evidence being laid out by Congressional committees finally doing their proper job of oversight. One after the other, the various committees now being led by Dems are performing actual investigations instead of offering the convenient escape from scrutiny the Repukes provided to the corrupt operators in the WH for way too long.

The contrast is truly striking.

Everyone knows that simply being noted as someone who is "under investigation" is a big negative. When it only happens now and then, the larger group can absorb such investigations and their outcomes fairly well.

But when there is a steady flow of Congressional hearings shining the light on a heaping, steaming pile of nastiness and criminal behavior that one party has kept successfully out of view for years, even a somnolent public has to notice! The sheer weight of the evidence being revealed week after week is bound to have a profound cumulative effect.

Never thought I'd feel again as good about seeing government working as it should, as I did when relentless Congressional investigations brought Tricky Dick down. It will feel even better to me this time as the present criminal-in-chief feels the heat of the flames licking at his hold on power, dissolving it away....

[jimshoes]

3. Hear Hear!

I have been letting myself regain hope lately that this criminal enterprise is finally on its way to prison or at least out of our government.