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Originally Posted by John Doe
...That the dems are acting like this is unprecedented is utter BS--they did it too.
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Really? They fired specific USAs who refused to prosecute members of the opposition or insisted on prosecuting members of their own party? And gave questionable testimony to Congress about it? And sent emails like the one quoted in the following piece from today's Washington Post?
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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 operative and protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove, as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock.
"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."...
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That last sentence is just classic. It's as if these people have given up all pretense of integrity.