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20071220
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 Mitt
Romney
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Giuliani
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Huckabee -  Tom
Tancredo -  Criminal
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York
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-  People
- Noteworthy
- 2008
Election - "GOP
hopefuls run in a hypocrisy derby." ... "Everybody
knows that [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney
was running - as [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rudy
Giuliani put it - a "sanctuary mansion." But not many people know that
he was not the only one." ... "No less an anti-immigrant zealot than [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Colorado Representative]
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.[Republican-Colorado]), the would-be President
who built a failing campaign on the single issue of persecuting "criminal
aliens" - as he is fond of calling undocumented immigrants - also has a
few skeletons in his closet." ... "Listen to this: Five years ago, when
Tancredo wanted to install a home theater and make other renovations in
his house, he had no qualms hiring a contractor that - gasp! - also employed
undocumented workers." ... "The man who had said, "[The face of illegal
immigration] is the face of murder. It is the face of infiltration into
the country of people who are coming to do us great harm," wasn't at all
troubled by the fact that only two in the crew of five or six laborers
spoke English." ... "[In 1994, then New York Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani
said] "If you come here and you work hard, and you happen to be in an undocumented
status, you're one of the people who we want in this city," he told The
New York Times in 1994." ... "While in Arkansas, he [Arkansas Republican
Governor and 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee]
was instrumental in bringing a Mexican Consulate to Little Rock [Arkansas's
capital]. That consulate issued thousands of identification forms that
now, after he has become a presidential hopeful, Huckabee has begun to
call "illegal immigrant identification cards."" ... "And do not forget
that if he is elected President, he has vowed to expel the nation's estimated
12 million undocumented immigrants within 120 days, which comes to deporting
100,000 people per day." -By Albor Ruiz -NYDailyNews.com
20070616
-
 Michael
Elston
-  Alberto
Gonzales - US
Attorneys - Law
-  Politics
- Seattle
-  Washington
- Phoenix
-  Arizona
- San
Diego -  California
- Little
Rock - Arkansas
- "Justice
Dept. Official To Quit: [Michael] Elston Had Role
in Prosecutor Firings." ... "Former U.S. attorney John McKay of Seattle
[Washington] told Congress that on Jan. 17 -- before McKay stepped down
-- he received a call from Elston that he "greatly resented." He said Elston
attempted to "buy my silence by promising that the attorney general [Alberto
Gonzales] would not demean me in his Senate testimony."" ... ""My handwritten
and dated notes of this call," McKay told Congress, "reflect that I believed
Mr. Elston's tone was sinister and that he was prepared to threaten me
further if he concluded I did not intend to continue to remain silent about
my dismissal."" ... "Paul K. Charlton, who was the U.S. attorney in Phoenix
[Airzona], said that he, too, received a call that day in which Elston
offered "a quid pro quo agreement: my silence in exchange for the attorney
general's." Another former prosecutor, Carol C. Lam of San Diego [California],
said Elston accused her of "leaking" word of her dismissal to the press
"and criticized me for talking to other dismissed U.S. attorneys."" ...
"Former U.S. attorney Bud Cummins of Little Rock [Arkansas] also recounted
a Feb. 20 conversation with Elston that Cummins said contained a "threatening
undercurrent" warning that Justice Department officials would retaliate
if he or his colleagues spoke to journalists or volunteered to testify
in Congress." -By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
-WashingtonPost
20070613
-
 Karl
Rove
-  Sara
Taylor
-  Kyle
Sampson
- Alberto
Gonzales -  Paul
McNulty
-  Tim
Griffin - Ark
- US
Attorneys - Law
- E-Mail
- "Officials
rebuked for disclosing Rove's connection to firing of U.S. attorney."
... "The White House's former political director was furious at Justice
Department officials for disclosing to Congress that the administration
had forced out the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., to make way for
a protege of Karl Rove, [Republican] President Bush's political adviser,
according to documents released late Tuesday." ... "Then-White House political
affairs director Sara Taylor spelled out her frustrations in a Feb. 16
e-mail to Kyle Sampson, then the chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales." ... "She sent the message after Deputy Attorney General Paul
McNulty told the Senate that unlike other federal prosecutors, U.S. Attorney
Bud Cummins wasn't fired for performance reasons, but to make way for former
Republican political operative Tim Griffin. Griffin, serving as the interim
U.S. attorney, then announced that he wouldn't seek confirmation to the
Arkansas post, but would remain until the Senate confirmed someone else.
Griffin has since resigned." ... ""Tim was put in a horrible position;
hung out to dry w/ no heads up," Taylor lashed out in the e-mail, which
was sent from a Republican Party account rather than from her White House
e-mail address. "This is not good for his long-term career."" -By
Margaret
Talev and Marisa
Taylor -McClatchy
via -RealCities
20070328
-
Gonzales
- Kyle
Sampson
- Rove
- Timothy
Griffin -
 Harriet
Miers
- US
Attorneys - Law
- Ark
- "Ex-Aide:
Prosecutor Firings Were Political: Gonzales' Former
Chief Of Staff To Testify U.S. Attorneys Were Dismissed For Not Supporting
Bush Agenda." ... "Eight federal prosecutors were fired last year because
they did not sufficiently support President Bush's priorities, Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff [Kyle Sampson] says in
remarks prepared for delivery Thursday to Congress." ... "Separately, the
Justice Department admitted Wednesday it gave senators inaccurate information
about the firings and presidential political adviser Karl Rove's role in
trying to secure a U.S. attorney's post for one of his former aides, Tim
Griffin." ... "In a letter accompanying new documents sent to the House
and Senate Judiciary committees, Justice officials acknowledged that a
Feb. 23 letter to four Democratic senators erred in asserting that the
department was not aware of any role Rove played in the decision to appoint
Griffin to replace U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins in Little Rock, Ark [Arkansas]."
... "The Feb. 23 letter, which was written by Sampson but signed by [Acting
Assistant Attorney General Richard] Hertling, emphatically stated that
"the department is not aware of Karl Rove playing any role in the decision
to appoint Mr. Griffin." It also said that "the Department of Justice is
not aware of anyone lobbying, either inside or outside of the administration,
for Mr. Griffin's appointment."" ... "Those assertions are contradicted
by e-mails from Sampson to White House aide Christopher G. Oprison on Dec.
19, 2006, about a strategy to deal with senators' opposition to Griffin's
appointment. In the e-mail, Sampson says there is a risk that senators
might balk and repeal the attorney general's newly won broader authority
to appoint U.S. attorneys." ... ""I'm not 100 percent sure that Tim was
the guy on which to test drive this authority, but know that getting him
appointed was important to Harriet, Karl, etc," Sampson wrote. Former White
House Counsel Harriet Miers was among the first people to suggest Griffin
as a replacement for Cummins." -AP
via -CBSNews
20070323
-
Griffin
- Rove
-
 Schlozman
- US
Attorneys - Poor
- People
- Civil
Righs - Law
- Enforcement
- Politics
- Ark
-  Florida
- Colorado
-  Wisconsin
-  Minnesota
-  Iowa
- Arkansas
-  Michigan
-  Nevada
-  New
Mexico -  Georgia
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election - "New
U.S. attorneys seem to have partisan records." ...
"Under [Republican] President Bush, the Justice Department has backed laws
that narrow minority voting rights and pressed U.S. attorneys to investigate
voter fraud - policies that critics say have been intended to suppress
Democratic votes." ... "Since 2005, McClatchy Newspapers has found, Bush
has appointed at least three U.S. attorneys who had worked in the Justice
Department's civil rights division when it was rolling back longstanding
voting-rights policies aimed at protecting predominantly poor, minority
voters." ... "Another newly installed U.S. attorney, Tim Griffin in Little
Rock, Ark. [Arkansas], was accused of participating in efforts to suppress
Democratic votes in Florida during the 2004 presidential election while
he was a research director for the Republican National Committee. He's
denied any wrongdoing." ... "Taken together, critics say, the replacement
of the U.S. attorneys, the voter-fraud campaign and the changes in Justice
Department voting rights policies suggest that the Bush administration
may have been using its law enforcement powers for partisan political purposes."
... "Last April, while the Justice Department and the White House were
planning the [US Attorneys] firings, [Republican President Bush's deputy
chief of staff Karl] Rove gave a speech in Washington to the Republican
National Lawyers Association. He ticked off 11 states that he said could
be pivotal in the 2008 elections. Bush has appointed new U.S. attorneys
in
nine of them since 2005: Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Arkansas, Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico. U.S. attorneys in the latter
four were among those fired." ... "Several former voting rights lawyers,
who asked to remain anonymous for fear of antagonizing the administration,
said the division's political appointees reversed the recommendations of
career lawyers in key cases and transferred or drove out most of the unit's
veteran attorneys." ... "Bradley Schlozman, who was the civil rights division's
deputy chief, agreed in 2005 to reverse the career staff's recommendations
to challenge a Georgia law that would have required voters to pay $20 for
photo IDs and in some cases travel as far as 30 miles to obtain the ID
card." ... "A federal judge threw out the Georgia law, calling it an unconstitutional,
Jim Crow-era poll tax." -By Greg Gordon, Margaret
Talev and Marisa Taylor with contributions by Tish Wells and Ron Hutcheson
-McClatchy via
-RealCities
-
Rove
- Gonzales
- Miers
- US
Attorneys
- Law
- Enforcement
- Politics
- Arkansas
- E-Mails
- "E-Mails
Show Machinations to Replace Prosecutor: Administration
Worked for Months to Make Rove Aide U.S. Attorney in Arkansas." ... "Two
months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock [Arkansas],
a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice
Department to take his place." ... "Last April, Tim Griffin, a Rove aide
and longtime GOP operative, sent the attorney general's chief of staff
a flattering letter about himself written by Cummins, the prosecutor he
was trying to replace, internal e-mails released this week show. Rove and
Harriet Miers, then the White House counsel, were keenly interested in
putting him in the position, e-mails reveal." ... "New documents also show
that Justice and White House officials were preparing for President Bush's
approval of the appointment as early as last summer, five months before
Griffin took the job." ... "The e-mails show how D. Kyle Sampson, then
the attorney general's chief of staff, and other Justice officials prepared
to use a change in federal law to bypass input from Arkansas' two Democratic
senators, who had expressed doubts about placing a former Republican National
Committee operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office. The evidence
runs contrary to assurances from Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that
no such move had been planned." ... "By June 13, about a week before Cummins
would be told he was losing his job, Sampson wrote to Monica Goodling,
senior counsel to Gonzales, to tell her that a colleague had the necessary
pre-nomination paperwork for Griffin. He said that he would speak the following
morning with Michael A. Battle, chief of the office that oversees U.S.
attorneys, and make sure that Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty's
office "knows that we are now executing this plan."" ... "Sampson's note
suggests the plan was not new: "I did tell them this was likely coming
several months ago."" (1, 2,
3)
-By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein with contributions
by Michael Abramowitz -WashingtonPost
20070315
-
Gonzales
- Rove
- Law
- Politics
- E-Mail
- Arkansas
- "Statements
On Firings of Prosecutors Are Key Issue." ... "In
testimony on Jan. 18, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured the
Senate Judiciary Committee that the Justice Department had no intention
of avoiding Senate input on the hiring of U.S. attorneys." ... "Just a
month earlier, D. Kyle Sampson, who was then Gonzales's chief of staff,
laid out a plan to do just that. In an e-mail, he detailed a strategy for
evading Arkansas Democrats in installing Tim Griffin, a former GOP [Republican]
operative and protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove, as the U.S. attorney
in Little Rock [Arkansas]." ... ""We should gum this to death," Sampson
wrote to a White House aide on Dec. 19. "[A]sk the senators to give Tim
a chance . . . then we can tell them we'll look for other candidates, ask
them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their
candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done
in 'good faith,' of course."" ... "Democrats and Republicans are demanding
to know whether Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty and other
Justice officials misled them in sworn testimony over the past two months."
... "The inconsistencies between Justice's positions and the documents
are numerous. On Feb. 23, for example, a Justice legislative affairs aide
wrote to [New York Democratic Senator] Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
that the department "was not aware of Karl Rove playing any role in the
decision to appoint Mr. Griffin." But internal Justice e-mails show that
"getting him appointed is important" to Rove and was closely monitored
by political aides in the White House." ... "Last week, senior Justice
official William E. Moschella told a House Judiciary subcommittee that
the White House was not consulted on the firings until the end of the process."
... "But the documents released this week show that the plan began more
than two years ago at the White House counsel's office [Harriet Miers],
which initially suggested firing all 93 U.S. attorneys. Gonzales rejected
that idea, and Sampson wrote back in January 2006 that Justice and the
White House should "work together to seek the replacement of a limited
number of U.S. Attorneys."" ... "McNulty told the committee that there
was no plan to use Gonzales's appointment powers to evade Senate oversight,
that accusations of "politicizing" the hiring and firing process were "completely
contrary to my daily experience," and that the dismissals of everyone but
the Arkansas prosecutor were purely "performance-related."" ... "Each of
those contentions is called into question by the 143 pages of internal
e-mails and other documents turned over to the House and the Senate on
Tuesday. Most had been sent or received by Sampson." ... "Political considerations,
for example, figured prominently in who was chosen to be fired. Sampson
ranked all 93 U.S. attorneys in part on whether they "exhibited loyalty"
to Bush and Gonzales or "chafed against Administration initiatives etc.""
(1, 2)
-By Dan Eggen with contributions by Julie Tate
-WashingtonPost
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