Administration threatens purged attorneys

[ck4829]

“A high-ranking Justice Department official told one of the U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration that if any of them continued to criticize the administration for their ousters, previously undisclosed details about the reasons they were fired might be released, two of the ousted prosecutors told McClatchy Newspapers.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/administration-threatens-purged-attorneys/

Sounds to me like they're either going to make stuff up or release private information about them to the press.

[hobbit709]

1. I'd say

"Go right ahead, you POS and I'll tell what I know about you"

[fasttense]

2. Sounds like good old fashion blackmail.

Is there a sleazy, illegal tactic the GOP wont use?

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. Does anyone remember that murdered prosecutor from MD?

Was he a federal prosecutor and whatever happened in that case? Did they ever catch anyone.? I seem to remember they found his body in PA.

[Bunny]

5. I remember that. His name was Jonathan Luna.

He was an assistant US attorney, and was working on the drug prosecution of a rapper. Here is a recent update on his story. It certainly seems to implicate the FBI, and not the rapper, in his murder, although I'll concede that there's probably a level of tin-foil involved:

http://wjz.com/local/local_story_057101153.html
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A coroner's letter obtained by Eyewitness News states the cause of death was homicide from drowning and 36 traumatic stab wounds, but the coroner aso states the FBI disagrees, thinking the death is a suicide.

"We're gonna see that the FBI had some involvement, some serious involvement, in the death of Jonathan Luna," Martino said.

"Luna, I think, was pressured to change some testimony and lie about the FBI's conduct in Baltimore," he said.

"I think he met someone who he trusted, who he knew," Martino said. "They beat the living tar out of him, drove him up here, dumped him in Lancaster County and took off."
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Here are some older links to his murder:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/05/national/main587040.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/04/national/main586958.shtml

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. 36 stab wounds,

and they're calling it suicide? The brass balls of these people.....

:eyes:

[Bunny]

10. They tried to imply that he was a bit of an attention whore who lied

to get sympathy. So naturally, that would translate to stabbing yourself 36 times, in the neck, and then drowning yourself. :eyes: indeed.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Like they won't get a good job recommendation????? n/t

[Robbien]

6. This is where their NSA wiretapping

comes into play.

STFU or secrets will be told.

[spanone]

7. bush* can wiretap, look into any personal info, make their lives hell.

All for the good of our nation, of course.:sarcasm:

[radfringe]

9. hey it rhymes

surge over there so we can purge over here

[glitch]

11. They don't call them the Texas Mafia for nothing.

Surely fabricated (who still believes anything from these people?), but by the time it's discovered to be false the attorney is already slimed.
The only way to fight them is to stand together and stop buying their bullshit.

[wryter2000]

12. Ye gods

That would backfire, wouldn't it? A knock-down drag-out would only call attention to their crimes.

[Morgana LaFey]

13. These attorneys need to stand up to that shit

That's the only way to get beyond this.

I'd make a terrible blackmail subject. The first HINT of blackmail or attempted blackmail I'd run -- not walk -- straight to whoever the blackmailers think I want to keep in the dark and reveal ALL, and I mean ALL. Just cut the blackmailers off at the knees by totally eliminating any "there" there. And then I'd call the cops. Blackmail IS still illegal, isn't it?