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...Those e-mails show that Miers first proposed firing all 93 U.S. attorneys shortly after Bush was reelected in 2004. After her idea was rejected by DOJ and White House political guru Karl Rove, Sampson, Gonzales's chief of staff, suggested forcing out a more limited number of U.S. attorneys. In consultation with Miers and others at the White House and DOJ, Sampson drew up a hit list and detailed plans to oust them, with a heavy emphasis on politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Under Siege | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...doubly moved by the prose of the author and the wonder that Silent Witness must have elicited from admiring crowds. Much as poverty and despair prevail on earth, it is satisfying to see that animals are sometimes recognized for the unknowing yet vast reach they have on us. Karl Germann Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...thousand tons. Nine days later, a treaty was signed ending the U.S. war with Mexico--our first elective war, first imperial war--in one stroke extending the U.S. from the Texas border to the Pacific. At the same moment in London, meanwhile, a 29-year-old German philosopher named Karl Marx and his 27-year-old textile manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published a pamphlet they called the Communist Manifesto. And days later, revolutions broke out in Europe, first in Paris, which overthrew the French monarchy, and then in several dozen other places on the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1848: When America Came of Age | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Gonzales insisted to Congress that "I would never, ever make a change in a U.S. attorney position for political reasons," critics were outraged at the December dismissals, among them the firing of an Arkansas U.S. attorney to make way for Timothy Griffin, a prot?g? of White House political guru Karl Rove. The outcry forced Griffin to withdraw. Gonzales' top deputy later claimed the firings were necessary because of "performance-related" issues. But it was later revealed that all but two of the dismissed prosecutors had won outstanding evaluations for competence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Were These U.S. Attorneys Fired? | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...Intelligence Identities Protection Act. In deciding not to charge Libby or anyone else in the administration with exposing a covert operative, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald all but proclaimed the act virtually unenforceable. If it had any teeth, Fitzgerald would have used it not only against Libby but also Karl Rove and Undersecretary of State Richard Armitage, the two who leaked Plame's name in the first place. Or even possibly Washington Post columnist Bob Novak, who first published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the CIA Lost in the Libby Case | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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