Administration hit by second resignation.
Administration hit by second resignation.
“The White House was hit by two sudden resignations late Monday when Paul McNulty, a top Justice Department official, and Lanny Davis, the only Democratic member of the president’s civil liberties watchdog board, announced they were stepping down. Both resignations are likely to fuel allegations of White House political meddling in law enforcement and national security issues.”
Davis’s frustration reached a peak last month when White House lawyers engaged in what he described in his letter as “substantial” edits of the board’s annual report to Congress. [...]
When Davis protested the attempted deletions, he said the board was told that the White House lawyers feared that because the material witness law was used by U.S. attorneys, a new probe of that issue would become a part of the larger controversy over the firing of U.s. attorneys. “I found this reason to be inappropriate–and emblematic of the sincere view, with which I strongly disagreed, of at least some administration officials and a majority of the Board that the Board was wholly part of the White House staff and political structure, rather than an independent oversight entity,” Davis wrote in his letter.
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May 14th, 2007 at 10:11 pmMore sh*t hitting the fan. This was getting good for a while. Now it’s just plain sick. And to think that this is just the tip of the iceburg.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:11 pmthe Bush is losing its leaves early this year
May 14th, 2007 at 10:11 pmMore importantly, how soon before we hear about Bush and Cheney resigning?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:12 pmIs it acceptable for us to use the term Nazis yet?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:16 pmIs it acceptable for us to use the term Nazis yet?
Sure!!!
Dick and I and Rummy and Condi and Gonzo and…
We’re ALL Nazis.
Rove’s FATHER was a Nazi.
My GRANDDADDIES were LAUNDERERS of Nazi money…
We’re PROUD of us Nazis.
See you in hell my Nazi azzhole-lickers (cause I’LL be THERE),
Mr. Bush
May 14th, 2007 at 10:20 pmMURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo, Inc.)
It’s very revealing that the Democrat resigned because he didn’t want to compromise his principles and that the Republican resigned to spend more time with his family.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:21 pmIs it acceptable for us to use the term Nazis yet?
Comment by Vance — May 14, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Of late many have been very sensible of the absurd opinion and insignificant disputes, which grow out of the abuse of words. And in order to remedy these evils they advise well, that we attend to the ideas signified, and draw off our attention from the terms which signify them.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pmMr. Bush Goes To Hell = #1 doucher in the galaxy
May 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pmHey you forgot coxucker!
May 14th, 2007 at 10:23 pmIt’s very revealing that the Democrat resigned because he didn’t want to compromise his principles and that the Republican resigned to spend more time with his family.
Comment by Republicans are the Fear and Smear Party — May 14, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
That doesn’t reveal shit, f*ckhead, they’re both lying.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:24 pm#6……Bravo indeed.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:24 pm#8……I agree, Laura is a drug addled murderer.Thanks for the agreement.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:25 pm..
It won’t be long before Bush is going to be ‘Going it Alone’ as his entire administration vanishes before his eyes.
This really gives the phrase ‘Go it Alone’ a whole new meaning.
LOL
May 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pmComment by Vance — May 14, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
But the attainment of all these advantages doth presuppose an ENTIRE deliverance from the deception of words! So difficult a thing it is to dissolve an union so early begun, and confirmed by so ong a habit as that betwixt words and ideas. Which difficulty seems to have been very much increased by the doctrines which abuse those terms.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:29 pmThere go the only two honest people left in the entire administration.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:30 pmHey God, feel free to smite the MoFos with some brimstone.
Why does Lanny Davis hate America?
Why does Lanny Davis want the terrorists to win?
Clinton substantially edited the Civil Liberties Board report to Congress too.
That is all.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:31 pmBush: “Hey Barney, you wanna be on my civil liberties watchdog board? Good boy.”
May 14th, 2007 at 10:33 pm#15……and confirmed by so ong …….The kool-aid is making ye retarded sir.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:34 pmMongo, go punch out a horse. You’re much better at that than arguing
May 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pmBut Clinton~~~
But… but… Clinton!
May 14th, 2007 at 10:36 pmLanny “Lieberman” Davis. Even the biggest tool in the shed eventually finds out eventually he’s being used. Who will replace him, I wonder. Pat Cadell?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm#19
good catch!
Errata: post #15) missing letter “l” should be “long”
May 14th, 2007 at 10:40 pmWould it be illegal to post joe liebermans address on an Iraqi website?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:41 pmEven if the outcome was wonderful?
re #8,
You might consider citing your references, else ye be deemed a flagrant, sh*t-tard plagarist.
Anyone and everyone can Google:
John Locke AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
Your screen name should be “turd blossom”.
Eat me.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:47 pmClose #25, it was actually a paraphrase of Bishop Berkeley which I directed to young Vance’s inquiry,
But I am impressed, tell me, what do you think of abstract ideas?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:53 pmre #24,
ONLY if you post it from your absolute, WORST enemy’s computer!
May 14th, 2007 at 10:53 pmHere check it out:
http://sanatan.intnet.mu/upanishads/pdf/berkeley.pdf
May 14th, 2007 at 10:54 pmSee John Locke believed that the men could form ideas through a process of abstraction, while Berkeley (pronounced Barkley, like Charles) thaught that Locke was full of it. I like Berkeley, are you a Locke man NC?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:57 pmLanny Davis resigned? Wow! What happened to that Lanny “kiss the GOP ass, trash Democrats, and call it bipartisanship?”.
Did Lanny finally realise Bush think he’s a piece of shit?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:59 pmGot Fascism?
May 14th, 2007 at 11:48 pmThere is no part of our government today that is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republic party, thanks to Mr. Bush and Mr. Chaney.
I doubt this was what our founding fathers had in mind.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:08 amRe the Nazi traits of the Bush Administration, people might watch Alex Jones’ Martial Law movie…there are fascinating sections on the Bush family’s source of wealth coming from Prescott Bush financing the Nazis, the involvement of IBM in the management of the Nazi Death camps, the role of Skull and Bones’ (aka Brotherhood of Death), etc.
Another Jones flic for the uninitiated is Terror Storm, about the history of government-sponsored terrorism…and then you will appreciate that 3000 deaths on 911 were small peanuts for these egomaniacs!
Styve
May 15th, 2007 at 12:18 amLanny Davis sold his soul to the Bush devil, so it’s kind of hard to get it back and redeem his honor.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:32 amYour fly in the ointment, Mr. Prez, is going with abstraction on this thread to obviscate. Very liberal of him. This guy needs a better, more accurate handle. Mr. Pathetic fits. His whole world is going down in flames, and all he can do is try and mess with commentors on a blog. Pathetic.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:56 ambadger, you give Mr. President way too much credit.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:16 amRemember the lessons from 9/11
Cause apparently the Bush administration cant.
May 15th, 2007 at 5:56 am“the president’s civil liberties watchdog board”?
Has there ever been a phrase so banal, so sinister and so parodic?
Mel Brooks would be proud.
May 15th, 2007 at 6:27 am“Democrat resigned because he didn’t want to compromise his principles and that the Republican resigned to spend more time with his family”
That’s because Democrats hate failies.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:04 amRe post #17: “…Clinton substantially edited the Civil Liberties Board report to Congress too.”
Mongo, are you joking or misinformed? The board was created in 2004.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:30 amLanny Davis has no principles to compromise…he’s another one of the Lieberman/Clinton insiders to whom power is more important than principles….
Anyone who has enabled Bush and served on the “Civil Liberties Board” this long has to be delusional or corrupt.
Bush has been very clear on what “Civil Liberties” means to him…unfettered power for the few and no liberties for the rest of us!
May 15th, 2007 at 1:05 pmResigned on principle I doubt it. If he had any principle he would have resigned years ago. It is more like another rat jumping a sinking ship. Just trying to salvage his reputation so that a Democratic president can appoint him to something.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:24 pmIt does seem to be par for the course for a Republican — McNulty says his reason for resigning is because, ultimately, he wasn’t being paid enough…
May 15th, 2007 at 2:39 pm