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Date Posted: 13:59:16 03/13/07 Tue In reply to: Bev 's message, "Rove lies again ." on 13:45:16 03/13/07 Tue ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS RESIGNATIONS FROM PROSECUTORS March 24, 1993, Wednesday By DAVID JOHNSTON, (Special to The New York Times); National Desk Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 1, 1053 words DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton. Jay B. Stephens, the ... To read this archive article, upgrade to TimesSelect or purchase as a single article. >The actual letter from the Cheif of staff may be >viewed at this address > >href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/13/sampson-rove- >attorney">http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/13/sampson-r >ove-attorney > > >Gonzales Chief Of Staff Rebuts Rove Claim That Clinton >Purged Prosecutors Too >At a speech last week in Little Rock, Karl Rove >described the Bush administration’s purge of federal >prosecutors as “normal and ordinary,” claiming that >Clinton did the same thing. “Clinton, when he came in, >replaced all 93 U.S. attorneys,” Rove said. “When we >came in, we ultimately replace most all 93 U.S. >attorneys — there are some still left from the Clinton >era in place. … What happened in this instance, was >there were seven done all at once, and people wanted >to play politics with it.” Watch it: > > >But in an e-mail to Harriet Miers on Jan. 9, Attorney >General Alberto Gonzales’s chief of staff Kyle Sampson >(who resigned yesterday) admitted that the Clinton >administration never purged its U.S. attorneys in the >middle of their terms, explicitly stating, “In recent >memory, during the Reagan and Clinton Administrations, >Presidents Reagan and Clinton did not seek to remove >and replace U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely under >the holdover provision”: > > > >Former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta previously >told ThinkProgress that Rove’s claims that the Clinton >administration also purged attorneys is “pure >fiction.” He added, “Replacing most U.S. attorneys >when a new administration comes in — as we did in 1993 >and the Bush administration did in 2001 — is not >unusual. But the Clinton administration never fired >federal prosecutors as pure political retribution.” > >(The Gavel has more.) > >Filed under: Ethics, Administration [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Reno was not one of my heros or heriones . However did she lie before congress | Bev | 14:28:28 03/13/07 Tue |
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