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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:28 AM
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Utah papers won't leave this alone: Right-hand man now a scapegoat?
Edited on Sun Mar-18-07 11:28 AM by helderheid

Right-hand man now a scapegoat?


Search for answers swirls around Cedar City native
By Robert Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 03/18/2007 01:22:35 AM MDT



WASHINGTON - Kyle Sampson had a hand in shaping some of the Bush administration's most ambitious and contentious policies, such as terrorism surveillance, prisoner detention and picking Supreme Court justices.

The Utah native spent the past several years beside the attorney general, first as a top aide to John Ashcroft, then at Alberto Gonzales' right hand.

This week, that hand pointed the finger at Sampson, blaming him for coordinating the purge of eight U.S. attorneys and not sharing details of the plan with those testifying before Congress.

Sampson resigned as chief of staff, but the man who made his career as a behind-the-scenes operator is facing congressional scrutiny and has been cast as everything from fall guy to political hit man.

"I think Kyle Sampson has been wronged," said former Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo, who worked with Sampson. "People like Kyle Sampson, who were simply doing their job in an ethical and honorable way, are now being smeared. He did nothing wrong. He did his job exactly as he should."

Democrats in Congress are skeptical and are vowing a full inquiry. The president is sending Gonzales to fix the mess as some senators, including two Republicans, call for the attorney general's resignation.

Born in Cedar City, Sampson served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints among Hmong refugees who had emigrated from Laos to Minnesota, then graduated from Brigham Young University and the University of Chicago law school. He clerked for 4th Circuit Appeals Judge Karen J. Williams, where he showed an outstanding legal mind, said Sheldon Bradshaw, a fellow BYU graduate, law clerk and later a deputy assistant attorney general.

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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5464508

It may interest you that Karl Rove is also a Utah native.
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:31 AM
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1. Rove's brother lives in state next door
where I am... and has benefitted from huge fed contracts for the construction firm he works for.

Didn't Rove go to U of U? The "other" university (not mormon?)
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:36 AM
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2. LOTS of interesting tidbits here:
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:41 AM
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6. thanks!
my neighbor is cousin and has large photo of him on her mantle...it's all I can do not to vomit on it.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:44 AM
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7. Are you serious?? JEEBS!!
:scared:
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:37 AM
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3. Holy jesus, he looks likes roves son. eom
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:40 AM
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5. I know! They look related!!
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:38 AM
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4. he was probalby told up front that there may come a time when he'll have to fall
on his sword for the Admin, but I'm sure that he was promised that if that were to occur,they would make it right with him by quietly placing in another position that he'll find $uitable.
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Lobster Martini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 11:55 AM
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8. He's Wilmer in the Maltese Falcon
He's both hit man and fall guy. He may have blood on his hands, but he has certainly taken a bullet for Gonzo. There is no way that an underling corrects a "constitutional anomaly" regarding the manner in which Federal prosecutors are appointed by changing the Patriot Act without any discussion, debate or approval, and without the Attorney General's knowledge.

(Incidentally, Elisha Cook, Jr., who played Wilmer, appeared in a 1947 movie called Fall Guy. Not relevant, but I like the symmetry.)
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Lobster Martini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 02:06 PM
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13. Self correction
Memo to moderators--please delete the above post. I have confused Sampson with Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General William E. Moschella. Terribly sorry for the error.

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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 12:15 PM
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9. Utah native? Rove?
didn'the just go to High School here...and some college?

Please, don't make it worse than it is.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 12:29 PM
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10. You're right - I checked wiki - he went to school here and some college - I think there are deeper
Utah connections - I'll need to look into it.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 12:39 PM
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11. he went to HS with some people I know and I remember them saying
he was "the new guy" in terms of just having arrived in Utah. Maybe he was Mormon, ppl tend to think all Mormon's are "from here."
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 12:46 PM
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12. He went to the same HS as my dad - yes, you could be right about the LDS relationship
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 08:37 PM
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14. your dad went to Olympus? So did my hubby.
sheesh, we could know your parents! Ack. I'm old.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 09:03 PM
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15. LOL! I'm not sure when he went but he was born in '44
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 10:55 PM
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16. yeah, see, I am old
hubby was born in '47, I'm dramatically younger though (born in 1950) and did NOT go to Rove's school!

(I did however go to law school with Ted Bundy. Shudder.)
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