Did Justice ‘take any action’ to influence corruption cases?
By on Apr 13th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Did Justice ‘take any action’ to influence corruption cases?
On March 5, 2007, then-Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson forwarded the opening statement of Associate Deputy Attorney General William Moschella to key White House and Justice Department officials for their review. The White House recommended that this line:
Second, the Department has not taken any action to influence any public corruption case, and would never do so.
be replaced with:
Second, the Department has not asked anyone to resign to influence any public corruption case, and would never do so.
Image below:
View Most Popular
Advertisement
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Bachmann
Beck
Boehner
Bush
Cheney
Civil Rights
Congress
Corporate Ethics
Dobbs
Economy
Education
Election
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Fox News
Gingrich
Global Warming
Guantanamo
Health Care
Immigration
International Relations
Iraq
Justice
LGBT
Lieberman
Limbaugh
Media
Military
O'Reilly
Obama
Palin
Pelosi
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Religion
Steele
Stimulus
Tea Parties
Technology
Terrorism
Veterans
Women's Rights
Visit Our Affiliated Sites
Reports
In-depth studies on select topics
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
ArchivesBlog Roll
but…but…but…Clinton!
April 13th, 2007 at 6:17 pmBecause they knew Bush simply breathing would be taken as “any action” to the Bush-lied-people-died crowd, so they were trying to be as precise as possible — damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:18 pmBecause they knew Bush simply breathing would be taken as “any action†to the Bush-lied-people-died crowd, so they were trying to be as precise as possible — damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
Clearly, this is the Fake-Jake at work again, trying to make the real Jake look as foolish as absolutely possible. I don’t think he really needs the help, do you?
April 13th, 2007 at 6:22 pmOH, WELL… that’s different then… never mind…
- emily litella
And, yes, I DO take it personally
April 13th, 2007 at 6:25 pmBecause they knew Bush simply breathing would be taken as “any action†to the Bush-lied-people-died crowd, so they were trying to be as precise as possible — damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
When someone is as incompetent as you are, yep, everything you do, or don’t do, you certain f*ck up. Story of your life, Jake? I can see your life unfold. At least 3 divorces. Horribly behaved, and greedy children just waiting breathlessly for you to die. Pretending you’re a *moral* man, while living your life with online porn, and secret swingers parties.
Sorry Jake, but you’re pathetic, as is the life you will lead.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:25 pmThe third article of impeachment written up and approved by a bi-partisan panel for the impeachment of Richard Nixon was using the power of the executive branch to attack political opponents. Removing a prosecutor from his or her position because they will not bring charges against a political opponent certainly falls under this catagory.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:32 pmI sure hope they used the new cover sheet when they filed that TPS report.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:32 pmYou will need to remove some GOP Senators from office on eithic charges before any of this GOP gang would vote to impeach.
I would remove them in the states that have Democratic Governors and select the Democratic Senators.
Otherwise don’t count on the GOP gang to impeach Bush.
But we impeach and impeach the entire GOP organization for not voting to impeach Bush. They all would loose the next election all across the nation.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:41 pmWATER IT DOWN…….
DEPT OF JUSTICE
CORRUPT
WHITE HOUSE
CORRUPT
EPA
CORRUPT
DEPT OF DEFENSE
CORRUPT
DEPT OF ED
CORRUPT
DEPT OF LABOR
CORRUPT
ON AND ON……………………..
A BUNCH OF
HOODLUMS
PARASITES
TICKS
MAGGOTS
LEECHES
ETHICS, JUST SUCH A MINOR ETHICAL ISSUE
YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME
IN THE REALM OF THOSE MINOR E. ISSUES AFFECTING
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
BILLIONS/TRILLONS OF DOLLARS
ENOUGH TO DOG GONE P**E THESE BIRDS OUT,
JUST WATER IT DOWN
A TRIVIVAL TEENY WEENY MISTAKE
DO YOU KNOW IF YOU OR ME DID THAT LITTLE T/W MISTAKE
$1000′S LEGAL FEES, YEARS, IT WOULD WRAP ANY OF US FOR
YEARS AND YET………….
OH
YEAH
THEY
SERVE
THE
PEOPLE
ALL
RIGHT…………
LIKE……. ELFS POT OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS LEFT WITH A BUNCH
OF IOU’S WHILE A TOTALLY CORRUPTED MOTORCADE TOURS THE
COUNTRY AS A SWINDLER VACUUM CLEANER SALES PERSON SELLING
OUT SS TO A BUNCH OF INVESTMENT BANKERS
AND THE SELL OF IRAQ………..
DRACULA MEETINGS
HOLD OPEN VOTES
ARMS TWISTS, CHECKS/FAVORS, DRACULA COMES IN
I SCRATCH YOU
YOU SCRATCH ME
FULL IMMUNITY TO
A
BUNCH
OF
HOODLUMS
THAT SELL OUT
YOUR
AND
MY
COUNTRY
OH YEAH THEY SERVE US ALL RIGHT… TO BAD YOU GET SUPERIOR
SERVICE AT MCDONALD’S
i sure hope read this post correctly, i believe it’s related to dept of justice
April 13th, 2007 at 6:46 pmregarding corruption investigations…. if it’s not, sorry about getting
of track :)
This is yet more evidence that Alberto Gonzales likely lied under oath during his January 18th testimony:
“I would never ever make a change in a United States attorney position for political reasons or that in any way would jeopardize an ongoing investigation.”
April 13th, 2007 at 6:46 pmLISTEN DUDE……….
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT GONZALES BEING A CARASSED ALL MIGHTY GOD
APPOINTED ROCK SOLID HONESTY/INTEGRITY OF ABSOLUTE LAW
AND THEY ACT LIKE A BUNCH OF FAST/SMOOTH TALKING SWINDLERS
IT IS REALLY UNBELIEVABLE, LITERALLY THESE ARE A BUNCH OF…. OF
I WOULD SAY IN REALITY IT’S LIKE A BUNCH OF PARASITES, A BUNCH
OF HOODLUMS……. NOT THE GENTLE, WISEST, MOST SACRED LAW
ABIDING RIGHTEOUS OF ALL TRUTH/HONOR
A BUNCH OF…. SORRY TO SAY…… I AIN’T SAYING ANYTHING MORE
THEN BY THE TIME THEIR DONE WITH THE TRUTH, IT WILL BE SO TWISTED
April 13th, 2007 at 6:53 pmTHERE WON’T BE ANY REMAINING DOG GONE TRUTH AFFECTING MILLIONS
OF PEOPLE/TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Next Tuesday Gonzalez is in for a world of hurt.
I wish all the Imus crap would stop clogging the airwaves so that people can hear about the ‘Lost’ emails and RNC accounts, that story is HUGE. But like always, the MSM won’t report it until it reaches critical mass and they can no longer avoid it. Thank God for bloggers and people that actually give a shite about the state of the nation.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:56 pmOxymoron=Bush Justice Dept.
-GSD
April 13th, 2007 at 7:32 pmJustice is stagnet. A pool of swill. Their “action” fails to deal with corrupt administrative problems. Bush administrative problems begin with wolfwitz, brownie, small, gonsales, epa, fcc, interior, etc, etc, etc ….all appointed sludge and some leftovers from the last congress.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:37 pmIt’s time for all to shout a little louder or become a different country.
Thing is, who wants to be them?
LOL — I think the lurkers would appreciate an oxymoron I overheard more than once in my life: Army intelligence : )
April 13th, 2007 at 7:38 pmComment by Angry One — April 13, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
But, but, he didn’t make the changes….underlings did it for him!
April 13th, 2007 at 7:40 pmRegarding impeachment.
If Democrats originate the process, they will be lambasted by the press and lauded by the people. Republicans will feel obliged to fall in line behind their President and will refuse to convict in spite of overwhelming evidence. The Republican Party will thus destroy itself to save Bush’s Presidency.
If Republicans originate the process, they will take credit for cleaning house when the Democrats were too timid. They will vote to impeach and convict Bush, putting Cheney in charge, with a hand-selected appointment (Guiliani or McCain) for Vice-President.
Or, both parties will stay the course, which will cause massive voter dissatisfaction in ‘08, leading to the possibility, for the first time in a long time, of a viable grass-roots third party to spring up and put forward multiple candidates at all levels of government.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:46 pmNow Jake is attacking the troops and saying they are uneducated.
Didn’t John Kerry get in trouble for saying the same thing?
Hypocrite.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:48 pmYep.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:49 pmre #12:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pmMore than likely, the network tv and radio clowns (and the print press)will not let go of anything as juicy as Imus or Anna-Nicole or the tragedy of the day to devote any effort to reporting honestly what is really going on in the world.
Why?
Because they’re afraid to, or told not to.
I don’t see an issue here. The Justice Department is supposed to take actions to influence public corruption cases. It is supposed to take actions to help prosecute well founded cases or dismiss unfounded cases. At a minimum, the original language would have had to have been revised to read: “has not taken any action to improperly influence…” The change they made instead strikes me as a perfectly valid alternative to addressing this problem with the original language.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:53 pmLOL — for the record, my service during Korea was in Army intelligence ; )
April 13th, 2007 at 7:54 pmFor the record, I am on The List ™ and should not be responded to.
Also for the record, nobody believes a fu*king thing that comes out of your keyboard’s pie hole.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:00 pmOH NO….. NO NO
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INSTEAD OF ACTING ON TRUTH
SWEEPS
IT
UNDER
THE
RUG/
TABLE
AND LET THOSE HOODLUMS CONTINUE ON CORRUPTING
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AFFECTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE,
JUST LOOK AT THAT SCANDALS BUNCH OF EMPTY IOU, THEN
MOTORCADES… AFTER THE SWINDLE SS…. IT WAS SO
DOG GONE CORRUPT…. SO WAS ENRON, MANY BILLIONS
WASTED IN IRAQ, TOTALLY CORRUPTED THINGS
C
O
R
R
U
P
T
I
O
N
AND
JUSTICE
TRUTH
INTEGRITY
EVERYTHING THESE PARASITES/LEECHES DO…..
GET DOG GONE CORRUPTED
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF YOU HAD TO PAY 4, 5, 6 WHEN SOMETHINS
WORTH .50? IT GOES ON ALL THE TIME
INSTEAD OF WASTING THEIR TIME GETTING PAID MILLIONS, THEY SHOULD
April 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pmNEVER SHOW UP TO THEIR 2 1/2 DAY JOB TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE 5 DAY WORK WEEK…. WHEN ALL IT IS … IS BOUGHT OUT AND TOTALLY CORRUPTED
THEY SHOULD JUST GO HOME AND DO US A GREAT BIG FAVOR :)
April 13th, 2007 at 8:04 pmIf anyone NOT on the “Ignore List” has a question about my service in the Korean War, or even the topic of this thread, please let me know.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:06 pmIf anyone NOT on the “Ignore List†has a question about my service in the Korean War, or even the topic of this thread, please let me know. Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
JakeOff continues to be under the false impression this is HIS BLOG. He also is under the false impression that he’s informed, relevant or has anything to offer. He’s also under the false impression that people care that he plagiarized the biography of a veteran – just like his Hero Coulter did her whole book. He’s also under the false impression that anyone (lurker or otherwise) thinks he’s smarter than a t*rd. Because Jake, no one and I mean NO ONE thinks you’re anything but a giant steaming piece of sh*t.
Oh I’m sorry valiant venus probably likes you, but then we don’t count WINGNUT TROLLS when we talk about *people* here. Terrorists don’t count.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:13 pmThis, from cnn.com:
The RNC accounts were set up to separate official business from political work. The firings of the prosecutors were discussed using the political accounts, not the official business accounts!
The implication is that the firings were political, which lends credence to the theory they were fired to obstruct justice.
Another implication is that the White House aids were conducting business on political accounts in order to evade the Presidential Records Act requirements.
Finally, since these emails were on the political accounts, to put forward the claim that they constituted official business in order to shield them from Congressional subpoenas gives further credence to the implication that the Presidential Records Act was violated.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:14 pmLOL — for the record, my service during Korea was in Army intelligence ; ) Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
You being involved in anything with the word “intelligence” isn’t for the record, it’s for the joke books! You’re the same as michael (heck you probably are michael), just another st*pid piece of sh*t liar that thinks they’re someone important. When in fact, you’re a useless pile of sh*t terrorist.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:15 pmthis is the one that will do the bush white house and doj in.
this communication is an implicit admission that the white house was seeking to effect an ongoing public corruption case – mostly likely the one in which carol lam was investigating congressman randy cunningham, businessman/government contractor mitchell wade, and pals.
an investigation that was about to move directly into the white house through the door to vice-president cheney’s office.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:16 pmYou need to keep your own fu*king list straight there buddy. It isn’t up to us to remember who can and can’t address your dumb a$$.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:18 pmThose with the biggest voices need to speak up …
April 13th, 2007 at 8:19 pmYou are batting 1000 as usual.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:20 pm#28
BINGO
That is something I posted over at TMP Muckraker earlier this week. Claiming that they were being cautious about violating the Hatch Act is a tacit admission they were fired for political, not performance reasons.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:29 pmI knew a little kid once who’s name was really Justice. As far as I know, he didn’t take any action.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:34 pmWynn:Joy and Sigel:Sun
May those that understand give a thought of thanks, and continue praying.
Day by day more and more wrongdoing is being brought into the light. The pace will increase now.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:38 pmAS I STATED THE SWINDLERS WHO COMPLAIN FOR SHOWING UP FOR
2.5 OF THE 5 DAYS
SHOULD BE US BOTH A HUGE FAVOR
AND
JUST
STAY
HOME
LIKE THE ENTIRE 109TH, GONZALES AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE WHITE
HOUSE
SHOULD
JUST
STAY
HOME……. THEN FIRE THEIR A**
I SURE AIN’T GOING TO PAY A BUNCH OF SWINDLERS :)
April 13th, 2007 at 8:40 pm#34, agreed. But how can firing a prosecutor not be official business? They’ve put themselves into their own Catch-22!
April 13th, 2007 at 8:41 pmHe’s also under the false impression that anyone (lurker or otherwise) thinks he’s smarter than a t*rd. Comment by ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus — April 13, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
Responding to the comment lurker or otherwise, I consider myself “covert.”
April 13th, 2007 at 8:41 pmAND IF THEY JUST STAYED HOME
WE
WOULDN’T
HAVE TO WASTE THE VALUABLE TIME
OVER 5 MILLION MISSING EMAILS
OR WASTE ANYTIME FOCUSING ON
BUSH
GONZALES
ROVE
CHENEY
MCCAIN
BECAUSE THERE WOULDN’T BE NO ISSUES NOR 5 MILLION
LOST EMAIL.
THESE TOTALLY CORRUPTED BIRDS SCREW UP ANYTHING
THEY DO
JUST
STAY
HOME
AND STOP LEECHES OF US :)
April 13th, 2007 at 8:43 pmNOW
FINALLY
I
WILL TAKE A CHILL PILL AND START CHILLING OUT :)
BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I DID WAS SPEAK THE TRUTH
THAT FOR SOME REASON GONZALES NOR THE MOST ELITE
COULDN’T DO IN A MILLION YEARS… IT ONLY TOOK ME A WHILE
NOW……. I’M TAKING THE CHILL PILL
AND
CHILLING OUT
April 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pmI think it’s time to remove the halo from Patrick Fitzgerald. If he couldn’t see the big picture from “different” e-mail accounts, then I’d have to say he agreed to stop at Libby to get his name off the “to be fired, er, retired list”. I don’t trust anyone in the “Justus” department.
Peace!
April 13th, 2007 at 9:02 pmColossians 3:23
Well, it’s about time you removed the halo from Patrick Fitzgerald too : )
April 13th, 2007 at 9:23 pmWell, it’s about time you removed the halo from Patrick Fitzgerald too : ) Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 9:23 pm
Projection? Don’t you mean it’s about time you removed the horns from Patrick Fitzgerald?
I’ve never seen someone that claims such righteousness, revel so much in the evil acts of others. You’re an evil, evil little boy. You must have been raised by the Goebbels, you human piece of sh*t.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pmGreat Post’s BnF, .my work begins in earnest again on Tuesday…
It came to me today that this little baiter troll jake is realy M.A./V.V. and other’s.Yep now he/she was in inteligence..LOL..I would think one would need to be some what smart to do that, so yet another lie…Blessings
April 13th, 2007 at 9:41 pmComment by Sharon — April 13, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Thank you. Peace, and Blessings to you, friend.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:20 pmComment by Briseadh na Faire #28
I’m with you BnF…
…I believe the evidence points to a “slam dunk”…
…on violation of the PRA by Bushiva/Rove et al…
…I also believe your reasoning in post #17…
…is provocative and troublesome…
…especially on the question of Repulsivescum possibly taking credit for…
…”cleaning house”…
…that would be a disaster for Dems for sure if they didn’t head it off at the pass…
…which doesn’t seem like a likely scenario given the porous nature of the Repulsivescum “secrecy” machine these days…
April 13th, 2007 at 10:38 pmMay those that understand give a thought of thanks, and continue praying.
Day by day more and more wrongdoing is being brought into the light. The pace will increase now.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
:-)
April 14th, 2007 at 12:20 amIn Wisconsin the Repupblicans went after Georgia Thompson when Governor Doyle was running in 2006. They have ruined this women’s life as she losted her saving, home, job and is in federal prison. I knew they went after her because Doyle was a Democrat that was running for Governor. She did nothing wrong. The Supreme Court reverse her sentence. Thank God. Something good came of this.
April 14th, 2007 at 8:47 am