McKay suggests cover-up in prosecutor case

[maddezmom]

Source: McClatchy

WENATCHEE — Fired U.S. Attorney John McKay said Sunday he believes the Justice Department is covering up the real reason for his ouster.

“I can see why they would want to come up with an explanation other than the governor’s election for why I would be on such a list,” said McKay, the U.S. attorney for Western Washington until his firing in December.

McKay pointed to the revelation that he first appeared on the Bush administration firing list in 2005 during the heat of the furor over Washington state’s election for governor. Some Republicans were appalled that McKay didn’t bring charges of election fraud in the race won by Democrat Chris Gregoire.

“I still don’t know if the 2004 governor’s election was the principal reason I was asked to step down,” McKay said in a speech at the Mainstream Republicans of Washington’s Cascade Conference in Wenatchee.

“If it was, I think it is an entirely improper and perhaps illegal reason for my termination,” said McKay.



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[MrSlayer]

1. Cover up? In the BUSH administration?? Say it isn't so.

This guy is probably nothing more than a incompetent malcontent with an agenda.

[xxqqqzme]

10. exactly - I mean monica goodling is,

when you cut through all the crap, nothing more than that incredibly dedicated, elephant hugging, reagan worshiping, dumbya idolizing 'over-zealous staffer'.

[napi21]

2. Has anyone put a list together of all the USA's that were fired and

the possible connection to close State elections? I know I've heard Ignasius say that, and now McKay. We all know there has to be a common link with all of these people, and although I believe there were other reasons too, like Lams prosecution of Cunningham, but I think this should be handled just like a string of murders. The first thing law enforcement does is try to find a common link between all of them.

So far, I've heard possible explainations for each of them, but nothing that links a common reason.

[maddezmom]

3. a few theories, voter fraud and corruption cases involving repubs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501874.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301106.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051100178.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051602874.html

[L. Coyote]

5. The Common Link is the larger picture they don't want us to see, the Overthrow.

While it is certainly true that influencing the outcomes of elections is in play here, that is just one MEANS to the END. It is the END sought that needs to be the real focus in this discussion. That end is Political Overthrow.

I wish I could use a less-harsh term, but subversion of democracy is just that, an overthrow. This attempt by a corrupt regime of neocons is about more than just defrauding the US Treasury of $$BILLIONS$$ or overthrowing other countries for control of their oil reserves. It is about ensuring continuing political control of the United States.

[IWantAChange]

6. like the way you think L. Coyote

absolute power does corrupt absolutely.......

[L. Coyote]

9. I was once under the employ of politicos, and can howl about felonies

I know of. I gained an insider's view, saw the crimes in progress, and departed that sub-culture.

[barbtries]

7. agreed nt

[Eurobabe]

4. Mr. McKay, why I neva....

I look forward to the day when this evil administration is frog marched to the Hague. For all their perped crimes, on the US and the world.

[Auggie]

8. "stinky, nasty..."

Sounds like Rove