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Date: April 19, 2007 11:53:10 AM PDT
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Subject: US Attorney Firings Linked to "Votescam" Operation Out of
White House
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/19/2007 10:53AM
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4429
GONZALEZ/ATTORNEYS HEARING:
A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection Straight Into the White House
Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins Was Fired Just After Reports
Surfaced of Investigation into Law Firm of Top White House/GOP
Operative Thor Hearne...
I just spoke with BRAD BLOG's D.C. Correspondent Margie Burns who
is in the hearing room today watching the testimony live in the
Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing with Alberto Gonzalez. She
tells me she'll have a report for us later this evening after the
second session.
While the hearing is on lunch break (until 2pm ET, online video
here), a couple of points I'd like to make quickly.
One just an observation concerning Gonzalez' sorry "don't attack
our troops" defense, and another --- much more important note ---
on a so far unreported aspect of the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal
that seems to reach straight into the White House and about which
someone on the Senate panel needs to ask some question.
First, just the observation that Gonzalez has been continuously
suggesting today that questioning him is actually an attack on the
career attorneys at DoJ. Nothing could be more disingenuous, yet
familiar as a now-routine defense for this bunch. The reprehensible
defense is identical to the oft-employed White House/GOP response
to criticism of George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq War. "Stop
attacking our troops!", they say, whenever someone is critical of
Bush's horrendous war management.
Gonzalez' "Stop attacking our career DoJ attorneys!" defense no
different and equally as disingenuous, particularly considering the
now-long documented history that this White House has for its
unprecedented politicization of the DoJ, its direct attacks on
career attorneys in the civil rights division and elsewhere, its
overruling of positions of those employees by Bush's political
appointees and so much more.
Thankfully, just before the lunch break, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
pointed out exactly that, and likewise compared it to the "Stop
attacking our troops!" defense. It brought a round of applause from
the audience in the room. (UPDATE: TPMMuckracker now has video of
the exchange.)
Secondly, but certainly far more important, is the so far ignored
--- yet as I see it, direct --- connection to the White House
concerning the firing of Arkansas' U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins.
Media reports from May of 2006, describe a corruption investigation
by Cummins' office into MO Gov. Matt Blunt's use of the Missouri
lawfirm Lathrop & Gage LC to run a chain of satellite state
licensing offices.
Lathrop & Gage is the powerful firm of Blunt's general counsel, and
Bush/Cheney '04's national general counsel Mark F. "Thor" Hearne.
As BRAD BLOG readers know, Hearne is a top-level White House
operative, a very close friend of Karl Rove's and the co-founder of
the currently-back-underground "American Center for Voting
Rights" (ACVR), the mysteriously-funded group behind all of the
GOP's phony "voter fraud" claims and the accompanying push for
disenfranchising "Voter ID" restrictions at the polling place. (See
our Special Coverage page on ACVR scam here...)
The first reports of Cummins' investigation into the Blunt/Lathrop
Gage scandal were apparently in May of 2006. Cummins was removed
from his position just afterwards in June of 2006 --- prior to all
the other firings which took place later that year on the same day
in December.
He was replaced at that point with Karl Rove's personal aide
Timothy Griffin.
Someone on the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee needs to ask
Gonzalez about the axis between the firing of Cummins and the
connection to Thor Hearne, Karl Rove and the White House.
I can't underscore enough Hearne's highly placed position as a
White House operative, as the man behind the GOP's entire,
systematic and well-financed "voter fraud" scheme/initiative (which
has played directly into several of the other firings), his
longtime efforts on behalf of and under the direct employ of MO
Gov. Matt Blunt (son of the powerful GOP minority House Whip Roy
Blunt), his position as a top attorney in the Republican National
Lawyers Association (singled out by Rove during an April 2006
speech to that group of Republican election attorneys), and of
course, as the national general counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc.
It seems to reason then, that the Cummins investigation into Blunt
and Lathrop Gage's questionable handling of those satellite state
offices --- for profit --- would definitely have triggered alarm
bells in the White House. Someone needs to inquire along those lines.
I'll try to get this article to someone on the committee right now
if possible.
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