{"id":8581,"date":"2007-03-13T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2007-03-13T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T19:45:00","slug":"the-almostness-of-unprecedentitude-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=8581","title":{"rendered":"The Almostness of Unprecedentitude [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Schumer called it “almost unheard of”<\/a> for a federal prosecutor with favorable reviews to be fired after a top presidential adviser like Rove received complaints about his performance.\n<\/p>\n

\n“The more we learn, the more it seems that people at high levels in the White House have been involved in the U.S. attorney purge,” Schumer said Monday. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAn inconvenient precedent: Robert Bork in 1998<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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Upon taking office, in an unexplained departure from the practice of recent Administrations, Miss Reno suddenly fired all 93 U.S. attorneys. She said the decision had been made in conjunction with the White House. Translation: The President ordered it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAlmost unheard of, Sen. Chuck?  Your objection at the time, I think, was unheard of completely.
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Here’s Chuck “Fire Gonzales” Schumer on Janet Reno <\/a>after Waco:\n<\/p>\n

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GOP presidential candidate Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah suggested the White House should remove Reno for her role in the Waco matter. But Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, wondered why Republicans focused their blame on Reno, a longtime target of GOP criticism, instead of FBI director Louis Freeh.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe FBI, reversing six years of denials by the Justice Department and the bureau, recently acknowledged that combustible tear gas containers were used in the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.\n<\/p>\n

\nReno and Freeh have promised an independent investigation into the discrepancy. Both now say that the potentially flammable canisters were shot at a storm shelter away from the main building, but maintain that the Davidians set fires that killed some 80 members of the religious sect.\n<\/p>\n

\nHatch: Justice Department ‘in shambles’ <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\nHatch said on CNN’s “Late Edition” that the Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, is “in a shambles” because of poor management.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn Waco and other inquiries, the department “doesn’t reply with the requests of Congress” and invokes “phony issues of executive privilege,” said Hatch, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut Hatch called Freeh the best FBI director he has seen, and said there was strong evidence that the bureau informed the Justice Department in a memo some years ago that military gas canisters were used.\n<\/p>\n

\n“If that is true,” he said, “either the attorney general has ignored the evidence or is incompetent, or … evidence has been withheld by people within the department.”\n<\/p>\n

\nSchumer, on ABC’s “This Week,” defended Reno and discouraged Republican calls for hearings.\n<\/p>\n

\nSchumer: Hearings could bring heat, not light <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n“I do find there’s sort of a little double standard that Janet Reno should resign but Louis Freeh should not,” Schumer said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nBecause of the proportionality.\n<\/p>\n

\nNeo-Warmonger <\/a>was on this a month ago.\n<\/p>\n

\nUPDATE: Here’s “Seeing the Forest” trying on a little prophylaxis<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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You’re going to hear a story that “Clinton fired 93 prosecutors” when he took office, while this whole prosecutor scandal is about Bush firing only 11.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe fact is that EVERY President changes the US Attorneys when taking office. Bush also did the same thing when he took office. That is different. This has never happened before. THIS scandal is about Bush using the federal prosecutors to only go after Democrats, and to ignore crimes by Republicans.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd here’s the thing. The ones that were fired were let go because they wouldn’t “play ball.” So the question is, what about the ones who were not fired?\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is one more example of how the entire government has been converted into a Party apparatus – as well as working to further the interests of the K-Street\/Abramoff corruption machine<\/a>.[Link mine]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWell, to return to Bork:\n<\/p>\n

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[Reno] was not in charge from the beginning. Upon taking office, in an unexplained departure from the practice of recent Administrations, Miss Reno suddenly fired all 93 U.S. attorneys. She said the decision had been made in conjunction with the White House. Translation: The President ordered it. Just as the best place to hide a body is on a battlefield, the best way to be rid of one potentially troublesome attorney is to fire all of them<\/b>. The U.S. attorney in Little Rock was replaced by a Clinton protege. The long-running Waco emergency that culminated in the deaths of eighty Branch Davidian men, women, and children again proved that Janet Reno was not in charge in the Justice Department. Webster Hubbell, Hillary’s former law partner in Little Rock and Bill’s man at Justice, coordinated tactics with the White House. The President did not even talk to his attorney general throughout the crisis.\n<\/p>\n

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\nFrom the outset, the White House has repeatedly withheld subpoenaed documents until threatened with contempt. Administration personnel, when questioned, have displayed premature and highly selective Alzheimer’s. The President’s lawyers have asserted frivolous claims of privilege and litigated them to the end. The executive-privilege argument was doomed from the beginning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nStupid Bush.  But just in case you’d forgotten what the face of an honest administration looked like, Bork’s column’s like a stroll down memory hole lane.\n<\/p>\n

\nSingle? Despise Bush? Join The World’s Liberal Dating Service Now!<\/i>
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\nBecause, y’know, what could bring two people together better than a mutual hatred?\n<\/p>\n

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Schumer called it “almost unheard of” for a federal prosecutor with favorable reviews to be fired after a top presidential adviser like Rove received complaints about his performance. “The more we learn, the more it seems that people at high levels in the White House have been involved in the U.S. attorney purge,” Schumer said Monday. An inconvenient precedent: Robert Bork in 1998 Upon taking office, in an unexplained departure<\/p>\n

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