Justice Department Gets Its Own Special Prosecutor
With the presidential election looming and the economy ending, it can be easy to forget that there are other decaying structures in the US.
While Attorney General Mukasey refused last month to prosecute DOJ officials (namely, Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson) for the politicized hiring of career employees, the investigation into the firings of US Attorneys will get some legs.
The internal Justice Dept review of the affair just produced a 356-page report on the “fundamentally flawed” system of hiring and firing of US Attorneys.
But the year of Administration stiff-arming “produced significant “gaps” in [the investigation's] understanding of the events”.
As a result, Mukasey has appointed the Acting Connecticut US Attorney, Nora Dannehy, to continue where the internal investigation left off.
I would quote parts of the article, but it’s really just worth reading in its entirety.
Rove, Miers and Goodling refused to be interviewed. There’s pretty much no question that Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Heather A. Wilson (R-NM-1) got US Attorney David Iglesias fired. Alberto Gonzales was “remarkably unengaged”. Etc, etc.
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