Ousted Michigan U.S. attorney argued politics were at play(Chiara)

[maddezmom]

Source: FREE PRESS

Ousted Michigan U.S. attorney argued politics were at play


BY TODD SPANGLER FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Created: 3/21/2007 9:14:54 AM
Updated: 3/21/2007 9:15:48 AM


For months, Michigan's first female U.S. attorney played along with the bosses who had ousted her, holding her tongue as the questions over her dismissal and those of seven other federal prosecutors got louder and hoping the people in Washington who had let her go would help her find a new job.

But as it became clear that Justice Department officials would criticize her performance in office and use that as the basis for her dismissal, former Western District U.S. Attorney Margaret M. Chiara fired off a series of e-mails, arguing that such an explanation was erroneous, and that her ouster was a political one.

"Politics may not be a compelling reason," she wrote Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty in an e-mail March 4, "but the truth is compelling."

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Chiara, 63, a former Cass County prosecutor, did not return calls for comment Tuesday, and no one answered the door at a home listed in her name in East Lansing. Calls to the Department of Justice also were not returned.


Read more: http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72815

[annabanana]

1. This is clearly a hit- job.

The problem for all of these fired attorneys comes down to "Who's your Daddy?"

If your boss is the pResident and you are supposed to do whatever the hell he thinks is right at the moment, no problem

If your boss is THE LAW (which, I believe, it is) then you are supposed to uphold it regardless of who's in the cross-hairs.

This is the basis for our entire legal system. This is why everyone isn't shooting their neighbor for "looking at them funny". . This is what separates us from out and out anarchy.

[Tempest]

2. She doesn't have to argue the point

Internal WH emails prove she, and the other attorneys, were fired for political reasons.

[Supersedeas]

3. Nothing to see here -- seed them more vagaries about Executive Privilege

[Duer 157099]

4. Is the problem that they didn't help her secure another job?

It seems that they're willing to "let bygones be bygones" as long as they get seated into a nice new comfy position (see the Debra Wong Yang case).

I read several emails of her begging them to help her find a new job -- but did that ever happen?