Comments on: New Justice Dept. Emails Reveal Top Rove Aides’ Involvement In Attorney Scandal

By: Jon R

Jon R — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:09:04 +0000

How ’bout a deal? To wit:

A) Bush fires Gonzales. In return,
B) Congress passes the flawed immigration bill

By: Jewboy

Jewboy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:12:58 +0000

who are all of these pretty blonde girls?

Comment by stromThurmond

You need to look again, not so pretty:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0505/gallery.watson.watch/images/02.taylor.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0505/gallery.watson.watch/content.1.2.html&h=220&w=324&sz=30&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=vD7v-KZoV4qhJM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsara%2Btaylor%2Bwhite%2Bhouse%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

By: RS Olive

RS Olive — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:13:57 +0000

Instead, we get, as Dawn said, blondes…young ones at that.

By: RS Olive

RS Olive — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:12:26 +0000

Can you imagine if the FBI were investigating computer fraud allowing the suspect to determine how much of a hard drive the FBI could inspect to determine whether any of it was relevant to the crime?

Waxman is the best we have but let’s face it, make deals for permission to look at information concealed by a corrupt administration is not going to expose involvement by Rove, Rice, Gonzales, Cheney or Bush.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:48:03 +0000

Do they ever hire dark-haired women in the DOJ? If this one has a baby voice I’m afraid I won’t be able to listen to another hearing.

By: terraverdeguy

terraverdeguy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:31:46 +0000

searched for something clever to say about “breach”-ing the “stonewall.” here is result #8 from dogpile.com:

No physical or magical power is believed able to breach the Stonewall, as it has been imbued with magic.

can we get Leahy a battalion of tanks and send him up Pennsylvania Ave, ala Yeltsin, to “condemn the junta?”

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:27:06 +0000

No more asking.
Just subpoenas.
No more nice guy affable, polite, goody goody shit.
Answers or contempt.
Truth, now.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:15:36 +0000

Stop asking for shit. Start issuing subpoenas. Gloves off, bare knuckles, let the truth about all this shit come to light.

By: Karim

Karim — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:11:25 +0000

What a disgraceful set of sons of bitches. They think that they can get away with this?

By: big papa

big papa — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:03:10 +0000

Go read the Scott Ritter article that Kay linked to on the other thread. He addresses the basic problem very eloquently.

Comment by Merlin #39

…question IS Merlin…

…who’s willing to be the FIRST (man or woman)…

…to water that “tree of liberty”…

…with his/her blood?

By: Kate Henry

Kate Henry — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:53:22 +0000

“These documents, which should have been released by the Department long ago, provide further evidence that White House officials like former Political Director Sara Taylor were deeply involved in the mass firings of well-performing prosecutors. ”

Come on Leahy, stop beating around the bush and call a spade a spade. What he should have said was:

“evidence that White House officials like Karl Rove was deeply involved in the mass firings of well-performing prosecutors. “

If anyone thinks that Taylor and Jennings were acting on their own, without the approval of Karl Rove, I have a bridge to sell you.

By: Midwest Product

Midwest Product — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:21:07 +0000

On page 57 (OAG000001795) at the very bottom there is an email from Harriet Miers to William Kelley that reads:

“I am quite surprised that we would engage on whether a personnel action on a Presidential appointment is justified for the reasons I have stated earlier. We can see what the Chief thinks.”

Who is the Chief?

By: Peter Principle

Peter Principle — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:03:18 +0000

â€œ[T]his is not good for [Griffinâ€™s] long-term career,â€ Taylor writes.

In other words, the truth was not good for Griffin’s career. Heh. You could say the same thing about Rove’s entire machine.

By: Com-n-sense

Com-n-sense — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:51:26 +0000

And I’m sure that subpoenas were issued immediately for all the top officials involved.

What? No subpoenas?

Enough already!!! These hearings have been dragging on long enough with enough evidence of illegal activity. STOP DICKING AROUND!!! This is nothing but an ongoing dog & pony show.

Wake me up when they actually start doing something meaningful.

By: Quicksilver

Quicksilver — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:09:52 +0000

I am not sure what it is I am seeing here. Either it is just one big dog-and-pony show brought to us by the entire political populace in D.C., including Leahy and Conyers, or the Bushies just committed a fatal error by releasing these documents thinking they were clear of further action by Congress. What forced the release? Perhaps all those emails Palast harvested and wrote about triggered this release. Certainly there were those in the White House who were concerned about the acquisition of information by that “BBC reporter.” If that were true, then they would need to preempt exposure by sacrificing some of the lower staffers with this release. Remember, these are still selective releases. We are seeing what Karl Rove and dirt balls want us to see — nothing more, nothing less. This is just one big soap opera juxtaposed against the rising death rates in Iraq. Perhaps if there are multiple bad news stories in play — raging fires — the political atmosphere becomes too toxic to work solutions for any of the scandals.

By: ace

ace — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:19:17 +0000

Rove’s Blackberry leaves a digital trail of evidence. Leahy should just subpoena the digital file of evidence connected to Rove’s Blackberry account. Those on-the-fly correspondence are the most likely to contain evidence of the conspiracy – if not multiple conspiracies.

By: Plantsman1

Plantsman1 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:32:48 +0000

You mean to tell me they fired these people for no good reason, then had the nerve to say that they “disloyally stirred up the senators”? Wow. I’m sure these flacks are not all from Texas, but the ones who aren’t sure learned Texas ways well.

By: JG

JG — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:26:52 +0000

I just heard something interesting on Olbermann (who wasn’t there tonight). This immigration legislation is Bush’s last chance for his legacy. He has no political capital left. Someone suggested that in order to geth the GOP behind him on this (which frankly is impossible), he might consider tossing Gonzales and Libby under the bus. Granted, Libby is already laying in the road, but he (Bush) might agree to not pardon him.. (Maybe he could throw in Cheney too!).

By: JG

JG — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:23:58 +0000

I agree. But, my husband was at that big march on the Capitol I think it was March. He said it was enormous. It was reported that there were under 100,000 people there and the only pictures run in the press were at ground level and didn’t give the scope. He said that there were people as far as the eye could see, they filled all four sides of the Capitol. Others there that he talked to who had attended other marches in the past said easily there was between 300,000 and 400,000 people. I don’t understand why there were no pictures taken from a helicopter or the tops of buildings to give the scope of just how many people came and participated.
I frankly don’t think this is an accident. If they control this piece of it in the press, then it doesn’t matter HOW many people show up. People who aren’t there won’t have any idea because it will be so downplayed.

Perhaps if a million people show up and just sit on the sidewalks and streets for a couple of days, maybe that might get some attention.. That is the time for YouTube, and run the photos and video across the entire internet.

I agree about the internet starting to compete with the MSM in informing the people regardless of their efforts to control the message.

By: nolo

nolo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:13:12 +0000

let me start by saying that tonight’s
e-mail dump looks to follow the recent
pattern — someone at DoJ is trying to
further erode the credibility of people
scheduled to talk to either of the con-
gressional committees investigating these
matters. [recall how this same slow-dance
was played, just two days prior to monica
goodling's immunized, and subpoenaed,
appearance before john conyers, and the
house judiciary committee. . .]

and, i think the primary target of this
salvo-e-mail-release tonight, is former
deputy attorney general paul mcnulty — as
we learned, earlier today, that he is due to
testify, next week.

but as the above makes plain — sara taylor
comes off looking atrocious. for good reason,
i might add. but i might ALSO add that she
is scheduled to appear in private before
john conyers committee, as well. . . so a smear
seems de riguer, no?

your mileage may vary.