BUSH - May Indeed Have Been A Party To At Least One Firing

[kpete]

"Some of the thousands of pages of e-mails released this week underscore the extraordinary planning and effort, at the highest levels of the Justice Department and White House, to secure Griffin a job running one of the smaller U.S. attorney's offices in the country.

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The Cummins case also suggests that Bush himself, contrary to Tony Snow's insistence yesterday, may indeed have been a party at least to this one firing.

"By July 25, a White House aide wrote to Sampson to ask whether she could begin trying to win over (Arkansas Democratic Senator Mark) Pryor. 'Is that a problem since he has not yet been nominated for U.S. attorney?' the aide wrote, referring to Griffin.

"'If the president has already approved Griffin, then part of our "consultation" (to meet the "advice and consent" requirements of Constitution) would be to tell them we were going to start a BI on Griffin,' Sampson replied six minutes later, using shorthand for a background investigation. 'I assume this has already happened.'"

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

[rodeodance]

1. well, for heavens sake-----the Pres hires and fires AG's. And if Jr was out

the loop--------and delegated this job---THEN there is a BIG problem!

[Ilsa]

2. Indeed, and yet it wouldn't surprise me.

He's a lazy sonofabitch, and tends to delegate anything he doesn't find entertaining or if it requires him to actually burn some calories thinking about and analyzing a problem.

He was the "C" student primarily because he's lazy, IMO.

[SpiralHawk]

3. I'll bet a doughnut that Commander AWOL also axed the protitute scandal

investigation.

There's no way Commander AWOL would let prosecutors reveal the vast extent of
republicon USE of male and female prostitutes provided by War Profiteering
corporations to his intimate republicon cronies.

It would remind too many people of the male prostitute, Jeff Gannon, who visited
the Bush White House over 200 times according to the official Secret Service records.

[pnwmom]

4. Couldn't Bush reply by saying he was in on the hiring, but not the firing?