Rove, Miers agree to talk to House panel on prosecutor firings

hawkdriver on March 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM

They don’t. They expect the miliions from the stimulus to go to ACORN to do GOTV effort, the card-check to increase th union coffers, the cooking of the census books, the amnesty for aliens with a fast track to citizenship by 2012, and the illegal contributions funneled in some way (now that the credit card scam was exposed) will all lead to a permanent majority in the Electoral College and Congress.

Along with all the pork programs that will make a majority of the US dependent on some government program (They’re going to cut your benefits!!!)

Dems do not ever expect to be held accountable. Their minions in he MSM will go along too.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 7:16 PM

In the end, US Attorneys are political appointments and serve at the President’s pleasure.

This is the sticking point, and the Dems know it. The president can fire any US Attorney for any reason, political or no. It is not illegal.

If they were protected by civil service, it would be different, but they are all appointees that serve at will.

Now that the attacks against Rush may have fizzled out they need another distraction from the economy. And a constant reminder of the past adminstration from which Obama “inherited” the mess. The more emphasis on Bush, the more he can use the “inherited” meme in other contexts.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 7:23 PM

Meirs appears to be such a ditz that it would be hard to ever claim she intentionally misled the Dems. Rove is smart enough to parse the questions and answer accordingly, and maybe annoy them along the way.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 7:36 PM

The saga of Shauna Daly is yet another in a seemingly endless series of proofs of this over the first six weeks of united Democratic governance.

In late January, Daly was hired as “White House counsel research director”. Daly is 29 and has no experience relevant to the job, having worked for the DNC and a number of Democratic campaigns, including Obama’s:

Miss Daly holds no law degree and doesn’t list any legal training on her resume.

Her sole experience has been as an opposition researcher for Democratic political campaigns: She helped dig up dirt on rivals, or on her own nominee to prepare for attacks.

Daly apparently got the job through the influence of a man who has made a career of flacking for the Daley machine and, apparently, masterminding leaks of divorce files that crippled Obama’s political opponents:

David Axelrod, a senior White House adviser to President Obama, had a hand in bringing Miss Daly to the campaign, and is thought to have been instrumental in bringing her to the White House.

A month later, she was back at the DNC:

Shauna Daly, 29, will be the DNC’s research director, returning to the fast-paced realm of bare-knuckles politics that associates said suits her best.

Given that the White House counsel’s office deals in privileged legal advice to the president, including on sensitive issues of national security, there are reasons to be concerned that Daly has used her brief tenure in the office for gathering information that was never supposed to be used for partisan purposes:

Daly did not waste her time in an office that had reams of Bush Administration documents related to such things as the firings of U.S. Attorneys, the use and internal debate over the USA PATRIOT Act, FISA, and the Scooter Libby and Karl Rove investigations, among others.

“She saw everything, and who knows what she was able to scan and pull out on data sticks,” says a Senate Republican Judiciary Committee staffer. “We’ll find out soon enough when we see what the DNC is putting out during [Sen. Patrick] Leahy’s ‘truth committee’ hearings.”

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“She realized that she could do more with all the material she saw outside of the building than inside, where she’d be bound by the rules and legalities of the White House Counsel’s Office. Now she isn’t,” says a DNC staffer who works in the communications field. “She’s good at what she does; her time at the White House means we’ve got a mother load of material that will have Republicans scrambling. At least that’s what we hope.”

That view would explain what Daly was doing if she had neither training nor assigned official duties:

Daly, according to White House staff, was often in her office early and one of the last to leave the Old Executive Office Building, which does not jibe with official White House claims that Daly was not doing much in the office, which was one reason for her leaving.

And coincidentally, shortly after her departure, we have Attorney General Holder – a man who was notorious during the Clinton years for subverting things like DOJ’s pardon process to narrow partisan ends – dumping previously privileged or classified legal advice on the war on terror into the public domain, wholly without regard to the precedent this sets for the president’s future ability to get such advice, and all for short-term partisan advantage.

No, you should not be surprised at any of this.

From RedState. One assumes everything she saw in th White House Counsel’s Office, no matter how privileged, has been passed on to the DNC and to Leahy.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 7:44 PM

getalife on March 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM

Rule 1.6

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 7:50 PM

So, if they break the law just keep it a secret.

getalife on March 4, 2009 at 7:55 PM

What is your interpretation of Rule 1.6? I’m still waiting.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 7:58 PM

Are you sure you are a lawyer?

I thought the argument was they did nothing wrong.

The President can do the same if no rules or laws were not broken.

Also, he can politicize the DoJ, spy on you without a warrant, and all the other legal arguments of the previuos President.

If indeed, they did nothing wrong.

getalife on March 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM

Yes, those certificates on my office wall seem to indicate that.

The DOJ has always been political to the extent that there are non-civil service appointees in charge, regardless of administration. You do know the difference between an at-will appointee and a civil service employee, don’t you?

As far as the “spying” goes, the Obama administration has reaffirmed that it will use FISA, and apparently has no plans to repeal the Patriot Act.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM

They did nothing wrong.

getalife on March 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM

Then there’s no reason for a truth commission. If nothing wrong was done then it was in the best interests of the country, and their time should be spent on more important matters.

If the Dems really thought something was illegal, they’d ask for a special prosecutor..Walsh, Starr, etc.

Partisan arguments are not legal claims.

Wethal on March 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM