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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...
...mail, Sampson notes that the appointment of Tim Griffin to a U.S. attorney slot in Little Rock, "was important to Harriet [Miers], Karl [Rove], etc." In response, Democrats said they would investigate the "etc." - to discover which persons at the White House or DOJ he might have been referring...
...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...
...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...
...there be no doubt about it: according to press reports, all three knew exactly what they were doing. Despite what they may claim, Rove and Armitage either knew Plame was under cover, suspected she was, or should have assumed she was. As for Novak, the CIA asked him not to print the name, but he did anyway, apparently deciding he would decide who the CIA should have under cover and who it shouldn...