Senator charges improper political interference in Justice Department

[TacticalPeek]

Source: McClatchy

By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the (Justice) Department into its own political arm."

Leahy, D-Vt., charged that "every week seems to bring new revelations about the erosion of independence at the Justice Department. This administration was willing, in the U.S. attorney firings and in the vetting of career hires for political allegiance, to sacrifice the independence of law enforcement and the rule of law for loyalty to the White House."

... Schlozman acknowledged reaching out to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, for Justice Department recruits and boasting that he'd brought in a large number of Republicans to one of the department's units.

... Schlozman also acknowledged that he was named interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City in March 2006 despite having never tried a civil or criminal case.

Read more: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17328350.htm

[woodsprite]

1. I'm tired and snarky, but can't resist - Is this where they hold their breath and turn blue? n/t

[msongs]

2. angry threats of nothing and nothing

repubs get immunity and dems get nothing.

whatta scam.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[keopeli]

3. Dear Leahy, I used to believe you were a man of your word, but...

now it looks increasingly like you are all bark and no bite.

Perhaps Bush the Lesser was right: this is all just political theater.

The time has come and gone, Sen. Leahy. Now, it's put up or shut up.

peace

[DRoseDARs]

4. Seriously, I thought he'd threatened subpoenas the middle of last month for all the stonewalling.

:shrug:

[keopeli]

5. It has been more than a month, and there have been NO subpoenas. n/t

[orleans]

6. come on already leahy! shit or get off the pot! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

7. What a horrible, shifty, creepy little man. He was on C-Span today/tonight.

http://upload.wikimedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Todd_Graves-resigns.jpg

http://www.bradblog.com.nyud.net:8090/Images/PresidentsMenMissouri_DoJ.jpg

man on the left, Schlozman, and Graves is the man on the right.

It should still be somewhere on this list as:

Programs 1-10 of 703
Senate Judiciary Cmte. Hearing on the Firing of U.S. Attorneys
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100
2 hours, 20 minutes. Also speaking is Todd Graves after Schlozman. Very well worth your time.