Sampson’s Confession: ‘I Wish The Department Hadn’t Gone Down This Road At All’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/29/sampson-confession/

Sampson’s Confession: ‘I Wish The Department Hadn’t Gone Down This Road At All’

During his opening statement today, Kyle Sampson declared that the decision to fire eight U.S. attorneys was “properly made but poorly explained.”

Some six hours of questioning later, during a tense moment, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) finally got Kyle Sampson to break down and acknowledge that in fact the decision wasn’t “proper.” It was wrong. “I wish the Department hadn’t gone down this road at all, and I regret my role in it, and that’s one of the reasons I resigned,” Kyle said.

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Transcript:

SCHUMER: Do you still think David Iglesias deserved to be fired?

SAMPSON: Senator, looking back on all of this, I wish that we could do it over again.

SCHUMER: So you’re saying you think he shouldn’t have been fired?

SAMPSON: Senator, I don’t know. That was a decision that was made. In hindsight, in hindsight, I wish the Department hadn’t gone down this road at all, and I regret my role in it, and that’s one of the reasons I resigned.

SCHUMER: So if the choice were up to you, just thinking back on that fateful December 7, would you now — knowing what you know now — have put David Iglesias on a list, choice solely up to you if he should be fired?

SAMPSON: In hindsight, sitting here today –

SCHUMER: Correct.

SAMPSON: I would not.

[JuniperLea]

1. Come into the light!

All are welcome! All are welcome!

[peacebird]

2. SAMPSON: In hindsight, sitting here today – In other words he regrets it cuz he was CAUGHT

NOT because it was wrong.

Schumer said "So if the choice were up to you, just thinking back on that fateful December 7, would you now — knowing what you know now — have put David Iglesias on a list, choice solely up to you if he should be fired?"

and SAMPSON answered most tellingly: "In hindsight, sitting here today –

[calimary]

4. Absolutely. SITTING HERE TODAY (under oath, in the hot seat,

forced to answer questions he never in a MILLION YEARS dreamed he'd be dragged into a hearing room and held accountable for, under pain of perjury, after resigning his job in which he HAD been regarded as kkkarl rove's heir). That's the key.

I suspect that this little schmuck is most guilty of the arrogance that permeates this administration - they just never in a MILLION YEARS dreamed that they'd ever be held to account for any of this, or that they'd face some pretty harsh questions about this - UNDER OATH. They figured they'd just always get away with it. They assumed that because their track record on sliding through unscathed, with a friendly, rubberstamping republi-CON Congress and Senate, that they'd just be able to ease on down the road with no sweat or tears, no questions asked, no nosy investigators wanting to stick their noses in where they didn't belong. No muss, no fuss. No runs, drips, or errors.

And they lived happily ever after for a nice, long, six-year nightmare (for the rest of us) until last November. When ALL of that changed.

Party's over, assholes!!! Party's OVER. Your party's OVER. Your POLITICAL PARTY is OVER.

[Hekate]

3. Can we get Lurita Doan back under oath until the smile is wiped off HER face?

I caught only a few minutes of that (I don't get CSPAN 3), but she is a piece of work.

Sampson's conscience finally opened up.

Hekate

[cassiepriam]

5. What? And not rig the 08 elections? Whatever is Sampson thinking.

[yellowcanine]

6. Sampson just undermined their whole argument.