I refer everyone to the blog Blue Girl, Red State and her post, up today, on the other Justice official who just resigned in protest. I would love to hear John W. Dean’s assessment of what’s going on with Fred Fielding. It’s hard to escape the impression that the tail (Rove) is wagging the dog (Fielding).

Thanks for the referral, Bill. I didn’t even know any of y’all knew I was out there. Since I’m here, I’ll engage in a wee bit o’ blogwhoring – BG,RS is is where I let the redhead off the leash – but I also contribute to another blog – Watching Those We Chose – where a whole team of folks are doing a damn fine job.

The character – and I do mean character – bmaz who you all know and mostly love is a contributor there as well.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..28,00.html

Gonzalez now naming McNulty as one of the “senior consensus” people who put the list together.

Holee fartoleee, Gonzo names “who wrote the list” names before the Press Club but not before the Committee???? WTF? WTF? W.T.F?????

EXACTLY! That’s why I don’t work up much sympathy for any of them. They had to know very good and well that during their “briefing” there was no info provded to them – no files, no summaries, no names on the line, etc. – to support the firings. So they went spinning, telling the tales and pretending that there had been a review processs and that they knew something about it. So they either knew they were being asked to go an lie bc they were not given documentation and statements and direct information to support what they were being told to say – or they knew they were being asked to lie bc they do know/did know what the process actually involved and it had to be covered up.

Either way – my heart doesn’t bleed for them. They puported to have actual knowledge when they didn’t, they made representations of fact to the tribunals without any care or concern for not having any support and proof of and for those facts. And Moeschella was even involved in the Pat Act change to the legislation, wasn’t he?

Not only that – they all knew the law on removals. Each of them knew that removals had to be somehow coordinated with the President. And they willingly sold an alternative story where the WH was not involved.

On the Lam removal, in particular – how do you go before Congress to make fact reps without having dug with your fingers until you nails bleed?

I don’t think you owe any apologies lhp.

“Its members did not want to deal with a very angry Ms. Riza, whose career was being damaged as a result of their decision,” Wolfowitz said in his response to the investigating committee’s report. “It would only be human nature for them to want to steer clear of her.”

Prison? Pardons. At least the Commander Guy’s going to get a bad case of writer’s cramp from signing all of them.

I doubt it, for most of them. Loyalty is strictly a one-way street with Bush. He’d bail out his BFFs Rove and Meiers, but for any of the ones who talk at all, even if they don’t tell the whole truth, he’ll let them rot. His “loyalty” is an emotional thing centered on whether they completely sacrificed themselves for him, not a practical thing based on whether they weaseled just enough to stymie the investigation.

Remember Dick Cheney’s “I haven’t had any reason to talk to Scooter.”