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When Do We Impeach Fredo?
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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
More gossip:
- Is the Noose Tightening on Gonzales?
Tuesday, May. 15, 2007 By KAREN TUMULTY/WASHINGTON U.S.
Now that the number-two official at the Justice Department has resigned, the question many in Washington are asking is: Will soon-to-be-former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty be DOJ's fall guy — or its worst nightmare?
As is so often the case when someone gets the ax in Washington, the official explanation for McNulty's departure was personal. In his one-page letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the deputy AG wrote that he will be leaving in late summer because of the "financial realities" of trying to provide for college-age children on a government salary. McNulty, 49, has worked nearly half his life either on Capitol Hill or in the executive branch.
But no one is taking that to be the real reason. Since McNulty's congressional testimony in February that the White House was involved in the firing of at least one of the nine U.S. attorneys who were forced to resign last year, the tension between his office and Gonzales's has divided and crippled the department. "There's a war going on between the DAG's office and the AG's office," says one senior Justice official."The thing that's 100% clear is that there's really no leadership. Both the DAG and the AG are so compromised, there's no one running the department. There's a lot of antagonism between those two groups. The DAG is throwing [Gonzales and his team] under the bus."
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I dunno:
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I think [McNulty] found it difficult -- really, impossible -- to continue to serve in the Department of Justice as a professional, which Paul McNulty is, because it's embarrassing for a professional to work for the Department of Justice today.
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page 6, Ty's link, above
And just for a chuckle:
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SPECTER: Can you give us an illustration of an exercise in good judgment by Kyle Sampson?
I withdraw that question.
Can you give us an example of an exercise of good judgment by Alberto Gonzales?
Let the record show a very long pause.
COMEY: It's hard -- I mean, I'm sure there are examples. I'll think of some.
I mean, it's hard when you look back. We worked together for eight months.
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page 38-39, Ty's link, above.
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Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 05-15-2007 at 07:35 PM..
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