“The Department is not aware of Karl Rove playing any role in the decision to appoint Mr. Griffin.”
Uhm, wow. Just… AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS? It’s like a lie so blatant you have to make sure you’re not wrong yourself.
From this group of docs. Pg 10 or so.
And, for the have-to-see-to-believe folks:
UPDATE: It’s so easy, even a …
From his prepared remarks:
Attorneys are never — repeat never — removed, or asked or encouraged to resign, in an effort to retaliate against them, or interfere with, or inappropriately influence a particular investigation, criminal prosecution, or civil case.
Then, in the margin, marked DELETED:
Any suggestion to the contrary is
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On the way into work today, I said to Swamphusband, “You know, the only thing that would make this AG scandal more awesome is if Bush refused to let Gonzales go.”
Said Swamphusband, “Oh, he’s gone, he’s got to go. He’ll resign or Bolten will do it or something.” And, for a moment, I thought, could it be possible? Will the WH really be …
They’re up on the House Judiciary site. I’ve just been skimming but my preliminary take is that the Lam thing is still pretty darn interesting. Favorite bit so far: The letter protesting Lam’s “catch and release” enforcement of immigration law signed by Randy “Duke” Cunningham. And that’s actually how he signs it, with quotes around the …
Thanks for the response, Old Man Kinsley. I’ll try to type something out here before the early bird special ends the second wave of documents goes up (which could settle the whole “scandal” issue to both our satisfaction).
First of all, I am clearly more easily amused than you are. For me, the spectacle of the Bush administration …
My temporary colleague Mr. Kinsley goes all Jay-pants (and tip-of-hat-less) with his second post on Swampland:
The trouble with this scandal, as a scandal, has been that—if you’re going to be honest (and why not?)—there is not only nothing illegal about the president firing a US attorney. There is nothing even really wrong with
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Annb asks, I answer: The House Judiciary committee and the DoJ are both saying there will be a second wave of docs released by CoB today. Warm up your printers. They said that Friday, too, but now they’ve said it more than once.
A request to Swampland’s sharp-eyed (and toothed) commenters: Where could one find a web-archived clip of fired ASUAs Iglesias and Cummins’s appearance on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday? The transcript gets at how devastating their interview was to the admin’s narrative, but one has to see how dignified yet sharp they are under Chris …
As you can see, Mr. Kinsley is especially excited to join us here at Swampland. He’ll be here all week, folks.
Seriously, he’ll be here for a week.
The WH missed its deadline:
“The White House Counsel’s office advised us this afternoon that the White House would not be providing documents to the Committee, or providing the White House’s position with respect to the Committee securing the testimony of White House officials today. This is contrary to earlier expectations that the
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Time’s Person of the Year gets his heavy artillery on:
The Multi-National Force – Iraq established this YouTube channel to give viewers around the world a “boots on the ground” perspective of Operation Iraqi Freedom from those who are fighting it.
Video clips document action as it appeared to personnel on the ground and in the air as
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While some on the right have been trying to spin the USA firings as trivial, because “Clinton did it, too,” those on the right who actually did the firings had a different view: View image. (Sorry, the email document dump is all in PDF format — this is from page 20.)
UPDATE: Transcription of email from Kyle Sampson to Harriet Miers, …
