“WASHINGTON — The top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales abruptly quit on Friday, almost two weeks after telling Congress she would not testify about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors.

“I am hereby submitting my resignation to the office of attorney general,” Monica M. Goodling said in a three-sentence letter. There was no immediate reason given, but her refusal to face Congress had intensified a controversy that threatens Gonzales’ job.”

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com…..geId=1.1.1

“The job changes followed a visit to the office by a representative from the Executive Office of the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C.”

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Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me W
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint

info junkie @ 117
It looks like Mo’s former USA Todd Graves was one of the first purged (see FiredUpMissouri’s post at http://www.firedupmissouri.com/graves_forced_out ). How does that fit into the big picture? He was certainly no saint but may have been a part of our boy king’s shenanigans. Also, he may be connected to Cummings somehow as Bud was probably investigating the fee office scandal.

By the way, this would fit into Christy’s theory as Missouri is a purple state and was heavily watched this last election season.

Why is this not getting any attention?
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‘Coz the universe is not big enough to hadle all the scandals at once? I’ll go check it out but I gotta get some work done, too!

If you look into either riverboat gambling schemes or reservation gambling schemes, a lot of that was going on about 15 years ago in the KC area; sounds like a “good” idea never dies. All the best…..

to: united states attorneys

from: u. s. attorney-general alberto gonzlaes

re: collateral damage

it is sad, but sometimes individuals have to suffer as we are progress toward our goals.

in your endeavors to help the party, please do try to insure that that collateral damage does not include any of our people.

my best in law

al

there is a face to put on the abuse of federal law and federal courts by the politicization of the u.s. attorneys’ offices.

that face belongs to georgia l. thompson, a civil servant in wisconsin who was a state purchasing supervisor.

it seems thompson was targeted by the u.s. attorney’s office in order to aid the 2006 republican gubernatorial campaign of mark green.

so the campaign is over, and most folks involved in it have gone on to to other things.

but where is georgia l. thompson?

she just got out of federal prison:

freed by an angry trio of federal appeals court judges who called the u.s. attorney’s office’s evidence against thompson “beyond thin”.

and what did this abuse of prosecutorial power cost this american citizen?

- a (false) felony conviction

- four months in a federal prison

- her $77 K state job

- her home

- her life savings

(s. walters and j. dietrich; milwaukee journal sentinel; april 5, 2007)

would you like your government to treat you that way?

think about that.

think hard!

because the case of georgia thompson warns that any one of us can be sacrificed in the meat grinder of republican power politics.

and one more thing -

shades of guantanamo -

“at sentencing, the government urged a longer period of incarceration because [thompson] DID NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY.”

got that .

thompson felt she was innocent.

she refused to confess falsely,

(would that be, like, you know, not being willing to testify against yourself?)

so

our federal government asked that she be put in the slammer for a LONGER period of time.

in short,

she was being threatened with more unjust prison time

unless if she would confess to a wrong-doing of which she was innocent.

does this remind you of the soviet union in the 1950’s?

it should.

political show trials brought to you by karl rove and the republican party with assists from u.s. attorney-general gonzales, a ruthless little apparatchi(c)k named monica goodling, and some career-before-honor u.s. attorneys..

have we finally arrived at the day when we live in fear of our government?

One of the very big problems with folks like Goodling and Paulose is that they think they are doing the Lord’s work. That is a dangerous notion for a U.S. Attorney to have. Particularly, when they consider liberals sinners.

this is a crucial matter. one of the founding themes of this country was separation of church and state.
when i was a kid, attending the southern baptist church, it was an important tenent of that denomination. somewhere along the way it went astray …..