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"Michelle Malkin" |
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19 Apr 2007 04:38:49 PM |
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Republicans Trying to Block Yet More Scandal Information |
The stuff that is going to come out of this testimony
whether intended or not....
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/19/2007 10:53AM
GONZALES/ATTORNEYS HEARING: A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection Straight
Into the White House
Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins Was Fired Just After Reports Surfaced of
Investigation into Law Firm of Top Level White House/GOP Operative and
Close-Friend-of-Rove, Thor Hearne
Was Replaced by Rove Aide Timothy Griffin...
I just spoke with BRAD BLOG's D.C. Correspondent Margie Burns who is in the
hearing room today watching the testimony live in the Senate Judiciary
Committee's hearing with Alberto Gonzales. She tells me she'll have a report
for us later this evening after the second session.
While the hearing is on lunch break (until 2pm ET, online video here), a
couple of points I'd like to make quickly.
One just an observation concerning Gonzales' sorry "don't attack our troops"
defense, and another --- much more important note --- on a so far unreported
aspect of the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal that seems to reach straight into
the White House and about which someone on the Senate panel needs to ask
some question.
First, just the observation that Gonzales has been continuously suggesting
today that questioning him is actually an attack on the career attorneys at
DoJ. Nothing could be more disingenuous, yet familiar as a now-routine
defense for this bunch. The reprehensible defense is identical to the
oft-employed White House/GOP response to criticism of George W. Bush's
handling of the Iraq War. "Stop attacking our troops!", they say, whenever
someone is critical of Bush's horrendous war management.
Gonzales' "Stop attacking our career DoJ attorneys!" defense no different
and equally as disingenuous, particularly considering the now-long
documented history that this White House has for its unprecedented
politicization of the DoJ, its direct attacks on career attorneys in the
civil rights division and elsewhere, its overruling of positions of those
employees by Bush's political appointees and so much more.
Thankfully, just before the lunch break, Sen. ***** Durbin (D-IL) pointed out
exactly that, and likewise compared it to the "Stop attacking our troops!"
defense. It brought a round of applause from the audience in the room.
(UPDATE: TPMMuckracker now has video of the exchange.)
Secondly, but certainly far more important, is the so far ignored --- yet as
I see it, direct --- connection to the White House concerning the firing of
Arkansas' U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins.
Media reports from May of 2006, describe a corruption investigation by
Cummins' office into MO Gov. Matt Blunt's use of the Missouri lawfirm
Lathrop & Gage LC to run a chain of satellite state licensing offices.
Lathrop & Gage is the powerful firm of Blunt's general counsel, and
Bush/Cheney '04's national general counsel Mark F. "Thor" Hearne.
As BRAD BLOG readers know, Hearne is a top-level White House operative, a
very close friend of Karl Rove's and the co-founder of the
currently-back-underground "American Center for Voting Rights" (ACVR), the
mysteriously-funded group behind all of the GOP's phony "voter fraud" claims
and the accompanying push for disenfranchising "Voter ID" restrictions at
the polling place. (See our Special Coverage page on ACVR scam here...)
The first reports of Cummins' investigation into the Blunt/Lathrop Gage
scandal were apparently in May of 2006. Cummins was removed from his
position just afterwards in June of 2006 --- prior to all the other firings
which took place later that year on the same day in December.
He was replaced at that point with Karl Rove's personal aide Timothy
Griffin.
Someone on the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee needs to ask Gonzales about
the axis between the firing of Cummins and the connection to Thor Hearne,
Karl Rove and the White House.
I can't underscore enough Hearne's highly placed position as a White House
operative, as the man behind the GOP's entire, systematic and well-financed
"voter fraud" scheme/initiative (which has played directly into several of
the other firings), his longtime efforts on behalf of and under the direct
employ of MO Gov. Matt Blunt (son of the powerful GOP minority House Whip
Roy Blunt), his position as a top attorney in the Republican National
Lawyers Association (singled out by Rove during an April 2006 speech to that
group of Republican election attorneys), and of course, as the national
general counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc.
It seems to reason then, that the Cummins investigation into Blunt and
Lathrop Gage's questionable handling of those satellite state offices ---
for profit --- would definitely have triggered alarm bells in the White
House. Someone needs to inquire along those lines.
I'll try to get this article to someone on the committee right now if
possible.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans Trying to Block Yet More Scandal Information |
21 Apr 2007 02:25:14 AM |
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In article <-46dnag-3tywfLrbnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
The stuff that is going to come out of this testimony
whether intended or not....
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/19/2007 10:53AM
GONZALES/ATTORNEYS HEARING: A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection Straight
Into the White House
Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins Was Fired Just After Reports Surfaced of
Investigation into Law Firm of Top Level White House/GOP Operative and
Close-Friend-of-Rove, Thor Hearne
Was Replaced by Rove Aide Timothy Griffin...
I just spoke with BRAD BLOG's D.C. Correspondent Margie Burns who is in the
hearing room today watching the testimony live in the Senate Judiciary
Committee's hearing with Alberto Gonzales. She tells me she'll have a report
for us later this evening after the second session.
Rove, Rove, Rove. That name seems to be coming up more and more. Time to
get him before the Senate, under oath, in public hearings.
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans Trying to Block Yet More Scandal Information |
21 Apr 2007 05:25:45 AM |
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"johac" <jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:jhachmann-A373BF.00251421042007@news.giganews.com...
In article <-46dnag-3tywfLrbnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
The stuff that is going to come out of this testimony
whether intended or not....
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/19/2007 10:53AM
GONZALES/ATTORNEYS HEARING: A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection
Straight
Into the White House
Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins Was Fired Just After Reports Surfaced
of
Investigation into Law Firm of Top Level White House/GOP Operative and
Close-Friend-of-Rove, Thor Hearne
Was Replaced by Rove Aide Timothy Griffin...
I just spoke with BRAD BLOG's D.C. Correspondent Margie Burns who is in
the
hearing room today watching the testimony live in the Senate Judiciary
Committee's hearing with Alberto Gonzales. She tells me she'll have a
report
for us later this evening after the second session.
Rove, Rove, Rove. That name seems to be coming up more and more. Time to
get him before the Senate, under oath, in public hearings.
Oh, yes. Bruno's already cleaning up the cell in
anticipation of his new cellmate.
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^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Michelle Malkin (Mickey) aa list#1
BAAWA Knight & Bible Thumper Thumper
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When fascism comes to America, it will be
wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross -
Sinclair Lewis
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John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans Trying to Block Yet More Scandal Information |
21 Apr 2007 06:45:32 PM |
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In article <A7GdncquKIj0e7TbnZ2dnUVZ_tqnnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
"johac" <jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:jhachmann-A373BF.00251421042007@news.giganews.com...
In article <-46dnag-3tywfLrbnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
The stuff that is going to come out of this testimony
whether intended or not....
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/19/2007 10:53AM
GONZALES/ATTORNEYS HEARING: A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection
Straight
Into the White House
Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins Was Fired Just After Reports Surfaced
of
Investigation into Law Firm of Top Level White House/GOP Operative and
Close-Friend-of-Rove, Thor Hearne
Was Replaced by Rove Aide Timothy Griffin...
I just spoke with BRAD BLOG's D.C. Correspondent Margie Burns who is in
the
hearing room today watching the testimony live in the Senate Judiciary
Committee's hearing with Alberto Gonzales. She tells me she'll have a
report
for us later this evening after the second session.
Rove, Rove, Rove. That name seems to be coming up more and more. Time to
get him before the Senate, under oath, in public hearings.
Oh, yes. Bruno's already cleaning up the cell in
anticipation of his new cellmate.
Yes and Bruno better save places for Cheney and Bush. I'm waiting for
Dubya to start whining about 'executive privilege'. I hope Congress and
the courts stomp on him, just as they did with Nixon.
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans Trying to Block Yet More Scandal Information |
19 Apr 2007 11:49:36 PM |
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You know, some time ago I was told that the original intent of your 2nd
amendment was to enable the citizens to fight their own government should
it ever fail and become corrupt.
How much more corrupt can a government get?
No civil uprising though.
I'd like to sarcastically announce that this proves that the 2nd amendment
has ultimately failed. What good in being allowed to have weapons if you
don't use them even in such a mad situation?
(Don't take me too literally, that's just my standard early morning
sarcasm...)
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"To his friend a man a friend shall prove, and gifts with gifts requite;
But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
(The Poetic Edda)
Must have been written with fundies in mind...
My personal judgment of monotheism:
http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus
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