Doan fights back.
The Office of Special Counsel has determined that GSA administrator Lurita Doan violated federal law by encouraging her employees to help Republican candidates. Now Doan wants the entire report thrown out because it was leaked to the press:
In a two-page letter sent late Thursday evening to Special Counsel Scott Bloch, Michael Nardotti Jr., counsel to Doan, said the Office of Special Counsel should “disapprove the current report and support any further consideration of this matter by an investigative body outside the Office of Special Counsel.” […]
“The fact that some version of the report is now in the hands of at least three major media outlets leads to the very reasonable conclusion that this is not simply a case of one person providing a copy of the report to a favored journalist,” Nardotti said in the letter. “It appears to be [a] carefully planned campaign to cause maximum damage to Ms. Doan.”
No word from Doan on whether the actual substance of the report is wrong or not.
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More importantly, what kind of cookies will be served during her trial?
May 25th, 2007 at 5:54 pmGood point. Now leaking is unfair to Ms. Doan yet I noticed leaking the covert CIA agent isn’t a crime nor is leaking classified information about Bin Liden. Only the White House has to leak information to support their criminal acts and lie to the American people. Of course leaking classified information to the media is part of the new policy of the United States.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:56 pmAh yes. Once again, it’s the Republican defense of the “criminalization of politics.”
May 25th, 2007 at 5:57 pmnice try, AquaNet. Now go get a new suit for court.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pmno comment about the “maximum damage” ms. doan caused by willfully running roughshod over the provisions of the hatch act, eh…? ah well…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pmIt’s a vast liberal conspiracy I tells ya!!
May 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pmMs Doan,
If the foo shits, wear it.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:17 pmblah, blah, libtards…blah, blah, surrender…blah, blah, libtards…blah, blah, islamofacist…
May 25th, 2007 at 6:28 pmHow very Republican of her - break the law, deny it ; threaten the folks who tell the truth, deny you threatened them; whine when you get caught, then make up new rights for yourself.
I do not see how anyone with a conscience or the least sense of dignity can call him- or herself a Republican. My family gave up the last shreds of Republicanism during the Nixon years, thank god.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:30 pmWe should forgive her failure to fulfill her oath, and forgive her crimes, because the story got into the press?
Maybe we should parole Charles Manson because his story got into the press and defamed his reputation???
May 25th, 2007 at 6:30 pmWELL POOR BABY…………
TOO FOOKIN BAD HONEY BABY
YOURE GOING JAIL SWEETY
AND I DONT MEAN THE IRONIC , IMPLIED JAIL
May 25th, 2007 at 6:32 pmSo, Doan’s attorney thinks the report should be tossed and the President allowed to decide what should be done. LOL. . . . interestingly, he never challenged the conclusions of the report - which would seem to imply that they want bushco to deal with this and not congress!
May 25th, 2007 at 6:33 pmCan’t we just send her to Gitmo and have her waterboarded? I mean she acting like the Constitution is something more that just a quaint document and habeas corpus is still in affect.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:34 pmGosh, don’t all Republicans resign once caught breaking the law?
May 25th, 2007 at 6:41 pmI want what ever it is that you guys are smoking.
On the day after “Bloody Thursday” where the “democratic” party and it leadership stabbed the US public in the back and then sodomized them just for good measure, everyone is just fat and happy gossiping about silly little political shenanigans and slimy political operatives.
Not a single post about the betrayal by the dems. In fact, nothing really about Iraq at all besides how absolutely horrible it is for Americans that their emergency responders and their equipment is over in Iraq blowing sh*t up and murdering people and not back here in the states and available to us in case our cat gets stuck in the tree. How horrible for us that the Iraqis are so insensitive that they won’t even commit mass suicide so that we can have our weapons of destruction back home in our garages.
Progressive indeed.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:42 pmSomeone needs to explain to Doan that there are NO cookies in federal prison!
Better make a deal, Lorita Doan or they’ll take away your Lorna Doones!
May 25th, 2007 at 6:46 pmAnd remember how Clinton’s GRAND JURY TESTIMONY was LEAKED
to the networks, likely by the Ken Starr gang?
Such an act was BLATANTLY ILLEGAL.
NO ONE ever was even arrested or prosecuted for it.
Nor did ONE Rapeublic EVER say Clinton was DONE WRONG by it…
FVK YOU, Lurita.
YOU and your TRAITOR “commander guy”
May 25th, 2007 at 7:02 pmBREAKING NEWS : Rosie O’Donnell has been shot!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:04 pmhttp://news.yahoo.com/ photo/ 070525/ 480/ a380d39070604b3a99b8346b8522a57c
Comment by Fed the Fcuk Up! — May 25, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
I’m not being rude here. At best I’m being stupid. I just don’t understand what your post is trying to say.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:07 pmIf the Justice Department can’t hold court, might the House ablige in taking over their duties? If one branch of goverment can’t carry on, certainly the “people’s branch” could come up with a solution. And that might be “House Court” ALL summer long! American SOAP TV might cure the world.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:09 pm19. Nah UKBristol, that was incoherent nonsense. Not just your imagination.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:12 pmI might have been wrong but I thought I saw Zooey on this thread. If you are around Z, would you join a simple Englishman for a dance? :-)
May 25th, 2007 at 7:17 pmThat was very clever of the Doan camp to release the report like that.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:23 pmMore importantly, what kind of cookies will be served during her trial?
Comment by Zooey — May 25, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
Good point. Now leaking is unfair to Ms. Doan yet I noticed leaking the covert CIA agent isn’t a crime nor is leaking classified information about Bin Liden. Only the White House has to leak information to support their criminal acts and lie to the American people. Of course leaking classified information to the media is part of the new policy of the United States.
Comment by Jackie — May 25, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
To Zooey and Jackie: EXCELLENT POINTS! EXCELLENT!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:24 pmMy question is when are we going to see a headline in the MSM that reads: “American people fight back”
May 25th, 2007 at 7:40 pm#25
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:50 pm“It evidences a malicious effort by someone on your staff to seriously disparage Administrator Doan publicly — perhaps before she even received the report…”
Apparently Ms. Doan’s habit of forgetfulness has reared itself yet again (along with many, many other Shrub Admin. fill-ins) as she had already throughly disparaged HERSELF with her flagrantly false testimony before Rep. Waxman’s committee. What a loser.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:54 pmTo Zooey and Jackie: EXCELLENT POINTS! EXCELLENT!
Comment by Armando Gomez
Thank you, kind sir. :)
May 25th, 2007 at 7:58 pmLet me guess, she doesn’t feel she deserves maximum damage?
I get the biggest hoot out of these neocon weak-sisters; the minute things don’t go right their true colors and true intellect show right through.
All neocons fail to admit their own complicity in their problems.
FRY DOAS!!!
May 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pmComment by Zooey — May 25, 2007 @ 7:58 pm
Smart, funny and intelligent. The question is - can you join me for a dance Z?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pmOr in other words:
May 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pmshe f’d up and karl is throwin’ her under the bus because of it.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pmComment by UKBristolDave — May 25, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
Oh, look who’s here — my dancing partner. Of course we’ll dance!
May 25th, 2007 at 8:03 pmHow are you this evening?
Well, I feel like doing the tango with a twist.
I want the lady to lead. I’m feeling a little submissive tonight. :-)
May 25th, 2007 at 8:07 pmComment by UKBristolDave — May 25, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
Submissive? Hmmm…
The problem we have, UKDave, is that I don’t know how to dance. So I could lead you to water, and I could lead you into temptation, but I could not lead you in doing the tango. :}
May 25th, 2007 at 8:14 pmWell, I’m OK for water, I know how to tango but I’d love to learn more about the second subject
May 25th, 2007 at 8:20 pmUKDave,
How is it that such a charming man is unfamiliar with temptation?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:27 pmComment by Zooey — May 25, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
Well Z, I heard about temptation in a song once. As the lyrics go “I can take it or leave it, temptation”.
I try to live my life by those principles
May 25th, 2007 at 8:37 pmHeh. And what sort of mood are you in tonight, UKDave?
Taking it or leaving it?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:40 pmI’m so very, very tempted
May 25th, 2007 at 9:04 pmOh good. :)
May 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pmDoan is part and parcel of this corrupt administration. I would love to see her behind bars.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:09 pmDOAN’S A PILL. Doan’s a pill all right.
I know Doan’s Pills are for backaches. A pain in the butt? Maybe a new and improved DOAN’S PILLS are for buttaches.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:20 pmI don’t see a problem here as she’ll just forget the whole episode tomorrow.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:27 pmI’ll make this brief and direct.
Lurita Doan should be stripped naked and flogged on the capital mall for all to see.
I watched this women’s testimony and she was disgusting. Her testimony was at least as disgusting as Alberto Gonzales.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:44 pmSorry, Ms. Doan, there wasn’t even a gag order. You have no legal standing and if you had real lawyers (instead of Regent U grads) you would know your “throw it all out” would not fly.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:28 pmSounds like the OJ case part II… wtf… doesn’t she realize that she is someone whose salary is paid by the taxpayers and as a result is a public figure and all kinds of information about her will be made public. Maybe she can have a jury outside of DC review her case. Lots of luck, fool.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:31 pmLet us not forget that this is also the paranoid “don’t let them get my fingerprints†lady. All the more reason to enjoy the show. However, she is also a Presidential appointee and therefore serves at the pleasure of the President. He will have to be the one to fire her. Guess they’ll just have to arrest her at her office.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:38 pmYou bring up a good point Roket. Isn’t it a prerequisite for a gov’t job to give up your prints?
May 26th, 2007 at 12:00 amAs I recall, the hyper-partisan (GOP) Mr Bloch was supposed to be unable to fairly investigate Ms Doan. The quick judgment that she has violated the law (and the leak) proves, once again, a minor operative is being sacrificed to take the heat off a honcho, in this case, Rove.
May 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pm