McClatchy: Bush Admin Targeted ANOTHER Top Fed Prosecutor (On Rove's List-Replaced By Bush Loyalist)

[kpete]

Posted on Thu, Apr. 26, 2007email thisprint this
U.S. ATTORNEYS
Bush administration targeted another top federal prosecutor
By Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration considered firing the former U.S. attorney in Minnesota, but he left his job voluntarily before the list of attorneys to be ousted was completed, two congressional aides said Thursday.


Congressional investigators probing the firings of eight U.S. attorneys saw Thomas Heffelfinger's name on a version of the list that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, began assembling in early 2005. Heffelfinger left in February 2006, more than nine months before the Justice Department agreed on a final list of prosecutors to remove.


The two senior congressional aides spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the document in question hasn't been made public and because the Justice Department has allowed investigators to read it but not to photocopy it. One of the aides, who also was familiar with Sampson's closed-door testimony to investigators earlier this month, said that Sampson couldn't recall specifics but said he'd been told that senior Justice officials had concerns about Heffelfinger.

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Heffelfinger's case interests congressional investigators because he worked in one of the states that White House political adviser Karl Rove identified as an election battleground, and because he was replaced by a 34-year-old Bush administration loyalist who'd been a member of Gonzales' inner circle.



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[Hissyspit]

1. k&r n/t

[rox63]

2. This needs to get some more attention

People need to realize that there is no real justice system under the * regime.

[robbyrob79]

3. I'm sure you've all seen

His replacement......a bible banging nutjob who was so out of line that all of her deputies quit as a block. Rachel Paulose is a total whackjob. I'll see if I can find some more info to back it up, but man, she's nothing but bad news.

[galloglas]

4. So Norm Coleman owes Rove, huh?

That's the way it figures, no?

[The Count]

5. I always knew Mondale beat Coleman - the poll results were flipped in election

I also remember that mon-like kiss W gave Coleman at one of his rallies.