SEPTEMBER 29 20081. Where the Trail Leads Next
2. White House Officials Implicated in Politically Motivated Cases
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1. Where the Trail Leads Next
By Dahlia Lithwick for SLATE
....Still, 392 pages on, the document itself makes for some great
reading. It concludes that there is "significant evidence that political
partisan considerations were an important factor in the removal of
several US Attorneys." It paints former U.S. Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales and his former deputy Paul McNulty as having been totally
checked out, having "abdicated their responsibility to adequately
oversee the process" while underlings like Kyle Sampson merrily
consulted a "dog-eared" chart he was constantly revising, destroying,
and re-creating. While the report does not unearth any criminal
wrongdoing, it finds that "the most serious allegation that we were not
able to fully investigate related to the removal of David Iglesias, the U.
S. Attorney for New Mexico, and the allegation that he was removed to
influence voter fraud and public corruption prosecutions. We
recommend that a counsel specially appointed by the Attorney
General ...
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2. White House Officials Implicated in
Politically Motivated Cases
by Scott Horton of Harper's
....The Bush administration wanted Democrats investigated and
prosecuted to keep them from winning elections, as they did to
Siegelman in 2005 after he announced his intention to run for
governor again in 2006.
The report’s most scathing criticism is reserved for Bush’s former
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, although former White House
political adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers
and former Justice Department official Monica Goodling and other key
witnesses are taken to task. The report says Gonzales “bears primary
responsibility” for the process of firing of the prosecutors and the
turmoil that followed, since he “abdicated” his leadership role and was
“remarkably unengaged.”
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| photo by Smialowski/Getty Images Alberto Gonzales, disgraced US attorney general is claiming President Bush directed him in the Us Attorneys Scandal. |
| Inspector General's Report concerning the firing's of Attorney's General by the DOJ PDF (3.69 Mb) |
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| Monica Goodling, DoJ Monica Goodling, Alberto Gonzales' White House liaison & chief of staff will take the brunt of the blame according to the Inspector General's Report. |