Throwing the first Yellow Flag of caution on Mukasey

21 Sep

Posted by MacRanger as DOJ, Mukasey

While not completely dismissing Muckasey’s nomination, I find this toubling:
“President Bush’s pick for attorney general has promised to fire any Justice Department employee who discusses sensitive cases with the White House without his approval, a leading Democratic senator said Thursday.
Earlier this week, retired federal judge Michael Mukasey told another senator he also would fire employees [...]

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Democrats, “We have the evidence!, Now testify so we can have some evidence!”

25 Jul

Posted by MacRanger as DOJ, Gonzales, democrat witch-hunts

Sounds confusing.¬† No more than this tripe.¬†
(Warning - Biased BS Alert Amy Goldstein reporting):
“House Democrats, preparing for a vote today on contempt citations against President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel, produced a report yesterday that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the [...]

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Flashback to the King of Pardons

08 Jul

Posted by jmoss as DOJ, democrat witch-hunts, democrats

While the left continually obsesses with the COMMUTATION of Scooter Libby, and the cooked up AG flap, let’s trip back down memory lane to perhaps the most agregious pardons ever given. That being Clinton’s pardon of a known terrorist group known as the FALN party, a group of 16 Puerto Rican terrorists, a [...]

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McNulty’s right hand man resigns

15 Jun

Posted by MacRanger as DOJ, Gonzales

Another sign that Gonzales is winning the coup:
“A senior Justice Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors said Friday he is resigning. Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, is the fifth Justice official to leave after being linked to the dismissals of the prosecutors.
Elston was accused [...]

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When a Vice President can say more than “Locked Box”

07 Jun

Posted by MacRanger as DOJ, Gonzales

It drives the left nuts. Today the Washington Post tries again to tell us that a Vice President of United States actually thinking and working is a travesty.
“Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, [...]

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McNulty canned at DOJ

14 May

Posted by MacRanger as DOJ, Gonzales

See what happens when you try to pull a coup?
“Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced his resignation today, saying he is leaving the Justice Department later this summer to enter the private sector, officials said.
McNulty announced his plans to leave in a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, citing the financial pressures of [...]