However, Margolis had an email in the first doc dump notifying some of the players that a CA Fed judge had asked him for info, which he declined to provide – but he had then received an insider tip that the judge was going to keep pressing for the info from other sources.

Gov Jodi Rell (R) appts, but committees etc are frozen w/Dem majorities and chairmen.

A question for our Nutmeggers: wasn’t there some sort of action in CT to pass a bill requiring a special election of a “departed” Senator, rather than leaving the power to appoint in the Governor’s hands? And how’s that going?

The movement should start this morning – here and now – the only Republican candidate for attorney general that the American people will accept is Patrick Fitzgerald.

Well, let’s take “Republican” out of the qualifiers, and —> I believe Paul Hackett is an attorney. I think we could come up with many helpful “bi-partisan” suggestions.

BTW, I was around for the Watergate hearings: scheduled law school classes around it. Of course I remember John Dean; Fred Thompson, not so much. As someone remarked, “how did that go for him?”

Professor Foland @
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The Democrats have the power to hold out for whatever AG they care to name.

It should be someone seen as moderate, clean, independent of the Administration, and who has proven they can work with Congress. (nb it should be someone who is seen this way; I’m not saying any of these facets necessarily hold true.)

It should also be a GOP Senator from a state with a Democratic governor :)

We aren’t going to like their AG anyway, might as well get a Senate seat out of the deal. We can neuter Joe here by promoting Arlen Specter into the AG seat.

Sorry. But can you guarantee that Biden, Kohl, DiFi, and Schumer (all of whom have rather conservative tendancies) are going to succeed in holding out for whom we want?

NPR reported this mornign that Schumer told WH that this thing was almost done a few weeks back (from the docuent dump). You think he’s going to really hold out for someone good?

Comment from abroad, have you ever heard of the saying “The best is enemy of the good”? You may not trust the Democrat leaders but surely, PLEASE they are better than Bushies?

Patrick Fitzgerald as AG is the only way for Bush and the Republickers to restore the confidence of the American people…Patrick Fitzgerald as AG is the only way for Bush and the Republickers to restore the confidence of the American people…Patrick Fitzgerald as AG is the only way for Bush and the Republickers to restore the confidence of the American people…Patrick Fitzgerald as AG is the only way for Bush and the Republickers to restore the confidence of the American people…

Thanks again, Arnie. Would like a fund that specializes in these newer-to-euro opportunities, but it’ll take time I’m spending on this research stuff.

I think I’ll soften the blow of downside dollars by moving to BRIC until I can move some to the newer-to-euro opportunities. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than being as exposed as I am to declining dollars. Already have half a dozen EU-based funds that have done nicely, so I’m not over-exposed. Thank goodness…and I’m buying stock in companies that are globalized, have considerable income or assets from overseas. Appreciate your comments.

jayackroyd @ 215
Mary4 @ 207
Caoimhin @ 197

I say get Silberman’s ass off the bench where he is doing irreparable harm already

I’m thinking if it happens it will be someone with whom Bush already feels very tight, though, bc he is embattled and will need to feel he can lean on whoever is there and they already have seen his dirty laundry. . . .

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He absolutely can’t have a Reno. He has to have a Mitchell or an RFK. As Christy pointed out above–and that means the new AG will be a lightweight.

Agree with the lightweight analysis. Merely pointing out one of the upsides (and a big one) that comes with this particular unqualified person on the list of potential candidates.

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Arnie @ 122

Thanks, Arnie, guess I’ll have to look for some BRIC-based funds into which to move some of my IRA monies once I get done with going through the DOJ document dump. [sigh]

A bit EPU, hope you catch it anyway. This morning it took $1.33 to buy 1.00 Euro. (near record) that only happened when 710 was at peak price range. It can also indicate mucho $s floating arround in the currency market and diminished demand for $s. By buying property in areas Euro zone is expanding, “l#unders” doll#rs into Euros without having to answer “pesky” questions about source – a byproduce of GWOT money tracing addopted everywhere in EuroLand. Idea is when “smart” money starts moving noticably, there is some reason for that movement, what is it? Always keep an eye in the money, isn’t just idle advice. Again, All the best……

It is possible for anyone to transcribe Adobe files to text

Documents from DoJ are “photocopies”, not text converted to PDF, so not easily converted back to text. I don’t know how good OCR s/w is these days, maybe it’s good enough. Is it possible to request that future dumps be PDFs which are searchable text? That doesn’t work for hand-written notes, but hand-written notes have a charm of their own.