Then too, whatever the reason Tommy was leaving for it would be, perhaps, a bit problematical to let the cat out of the bag. I assume many lawyers are big gossips so Tommy getting his name out there before leaving might have presented some issues for him, personally and professionally.

2. James Webb (if Gore won’t run

You’ve made a great case. It surely seems the former US Attorney was not completely truthful about his resignation, which is not illegal but which is a good reason to follow up.

The competency problems of his replacement points to her qualifications as a loyalist hack who will deliver on the anti-Democrat pro-Republican prosecution policy.

Is it possible to turn the resigned US Atty and get him to talk, or it is better to press the current Us Atty and see if her story can bear the weight of scrutiny?

I’ve worked with Tom, and he is a guy of limitless class. He is a terrific lawyer, and a hell of nice guy. Tom loved his job and truly had a calling for public service. He served under Bush I before serving under Shrub, and I’ve never heard of anyone who came back for a second term as a US Attorney. A single term gives you a fancy resume and a huge paycheck. It is unimaginable that he just now left government service for private practice and the possibility of a fat paycheck, because that has never been his calling. It had to kill him. And I don’t believe that he was just dying to go out and chase down bankruptcy fraud representing creditors, which is what he’s doing now. Tom left quietly and diplomatically, because that’s his style. On the other hand, I was in federal court today and got to talk with a few of the remaining attorneys at the USA’s office. Totally demoralized. Paulose is in lockdown. It felt funereal. How could some idiot have destroyed that office so nonchalantly?

Exactly.

It’s so strange to compare his terse and joyless public comments about his resignation to the obvious zest he expressed about his USA job just a few months earlier in 2005.

It’s obvious that he must be sick at heart over what’s happened to his office under Princess Rachel and the Regent Wreckers.

Thanks for contributing. This is EPU’d, but if you can fill us in on how many attorneys have left the Minneapolis USA office, I’d be grateful; KSTP-TV said that there’d been a mass exodus since Paulose’s appointment.

I wonder if spotting those is one of the uses they’re putting the NSA program(s) to.

I’ve worked with Tom, and he is a guy of limitless class. He is a terrific lawyer, and a hell of nice guy. Tom loved his job and truly had a calling for public service. He served under Bush I before serving under Shrub, and I’ve never heard of anyone who came back for a second term as a US Attorney. A single term gives you a fancy resume and a huge paycheck. It is unimaginable that he just now left government service for private practice and the possibility of a fat paycheck, because that has never been his calling. It had to kill him. And I don’t believe that he was just dying to go out and chase down bankruptcy fraud representing creditors, which is what he’s doing now. Tom left quietly and diplomatically, because that’s his style. On the other hand, I was in federal court today and got to talk with a few of the remaining attorneys at the USA’s office. Totally demoralized. Paulose is in lockdown. It felt funereal. How could some idiot have destroyed that office so nonchalantly?

Tom sounds like a man of honor. I would hope that if he was strong armed out; which sounds like that’s possible; to consider standing up and speaking out about it.

Imagine if they had fired all 93 AG’s. Who would be on their list next? It seems they are making 2 of our 3 branches of government impotent. What if they decide they can “appoint” Senators?

Difficult times call for difficult decisions.

or he was purchased? that is one way to keep him quiet about the firing for those months?
was he afraid of being blackballed?

It might not have needed to be so crude as that. Heffelfinger may or may not have contempt for the Bushies, but he’s still a Republican, and thus a believer in Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”