E-MAIL ORIGINATING FROM ROVE: Most USAs Are "Loyal Bushies"

[babylonsister]

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Email: Most USAs Are "Loyal Bushies"
By Paul Kiel - March 15, 2007, 6:53 PM

As reported earlier on ABC News, here is the email that shows that the whole U.S. attorney purge scheme originated with Karl Rove.

In the email, which has the subject line "Re: Question from Karl Rove," Kyle Sampson, who was then at the Justice Department, discusses with then-deputy White House Counsel David Leitch the idea of replacing "15-20 percent of the current U.S. Attorneys," because "80-85 percent, I would guess, are doing a great job, are loyal Bushies, etc."

"If Karl thinks there would be policitical will to do it, then so do I," Sampson concludes.

Sampson's email was in response to Leitch's relaying of Rove's query about how the administration would handle the U.S. Attorneys. As paraphrased by Colin Newman, a legal aide in the White House counsel's office, Rove asked "how we planned to proceed regarding US Attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resingations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc."

Update: The Justice Department has also released a statement from DoJ spokesperson Tasia Scolinos:

"The Attorney General has no recollection of any plan or discussion to replace U.S. Attorneys while he was still White House Counsel. The period of time referred to in the email was during the weeks he was preparing for his confirmation hearing, January 6th, 2005, and his focus was on that. Of course, discussions of changes in Presidential appointees would have been appropriate and normal White House exchanges in the days and months after the election as the White House was considering different personnel changes Administration wide."

[WolverineDG]

1. Uh, Gonzo, that didn't work for Scooter

so do you really think it's wise to use his defense? :think:

dg

[LittleClarkie]

2. It's not their job to be loyal Bushies. It's their job to support the truth

What a twisted little man.

[kestrel91316]

3. USA-gate was nothing less than a Stalinist-style political purge.