Hillary Clinton is announcing that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez should resign or be fired for dismissing several U.S. Attorney’s who serve at the President’s pleasure.
“The buck should stop somewhere,” Clinton told ABC News senior political correspondent Jake Tapper, “and the attorney general — who still seems to confuse his prior role as the president’s personal attorney with his duty to the system of justice and to the entire country — should resign.
“I’m deeply disturbed by what we have learned thus far,” Clinton said, “and I join those who are calling for a full and thorough investigation to try to get to the bottom of these very political decisions that interfere with prosecutorial responsibility by U.S. attorneys, and I think that the attorney general should resign.”
For Ms. Clinton and her ilk we find the hypocrisy of the statements complete since the Clinton administration fired all 93 U. S. Attorney’s in March of 1993. They were given 10 days to move out of their offices.
The Wall Street Journal points out that many of the firings were, in fact, political and equally unprecedented. Former Presidents often had holdover’s from previous administrations and never engaged in mass firings.
Clinton attempts to justify her husbands firings and we suppose manages to keep a straight fact while doing so.
“There is a great difference,” Clinton said. “When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house. It’s not done on a case-by-case basis where you didn’t do what some senator or member of Congress told you to do in terms of investigations into your opponents. It is ‘Let’s start afresh’ and every president has done that.”
Is that so? Well Clinton is confused while conveniently forgetting her past to fit her highly political motives of attacking Mr. Gonzalez.
At the time of the Clinton dismissals, allegations concerning some of the Clintons’ Whitewater dealings were coming to a head.
The Clintons conveniently cleared the decks to appoint “Friend of Bill” Paula Casey as the U.S. Attorney for Little Rock. Ms. Casey never did bring any big Whitewater indictments, and she rejected information from another FOB, David Hale, on the business practices of the Arkansas elite including Mr. Clinton.
Jay Stephens, then U.S. Attorney in Chicago, was investigating then Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, and was “within 30 days” of making a decision on an indictment. Mr. Rostenkowski, who was shepherding the Clinton’s economic program through Congress, eventually went to jail on mail fraud charges and was later pardoned by Mr. Clinton.
Two of the Bush administration firings stand out and should have come about sooner instead of later.
In 2004, the Governor’s race was decided in favor of Democrat Christine Gregoire by 129-votes on a third recount; some of the “voters” were deceased, others were registered in storage-rental facilities, and still others were convicted felons. More than 100 ballots were “discovered” in a Seattle warehouse.
U.S. Attorney John McKay, a Democrat from Washington state, declined to investigate on grounds that he had better things to do.
In New Mexico, as a result of the 2004 Governor’s race, U.S. Attorney David Iglesias did establish a voter fraud task force which lasted all of 10 weeks before closing its doors, despite evidence of irregularities by the likes of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn.
Acorn’s director Matt Henderson refused to answer questions in court about whether his group had illegally made copies of voter registration cards in the run-up to the 2004 election.
Clinton is claiming “abuse of power” as a talking point; to see real power abuse she need not go further than a mirror or her husband and is administration.
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March 15th, 2007 at 12:04 am
I am sick and tired of listening to Hillary Clinton praise Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King jr. out of one side of her face while knowingly making a mockery of everything he stood for out of the other side, By allowing Child Protective Services to violate every Constitutional and Civil Right low-income Families have without putting a stop to it, The Civil Rights Martin Luther King jr. and others fought so long and hard for are meaningless in the eyes of the current administration if you are Poor… Everybody talks about how the NSA/CIA is violating your civil rights by listening in on your communications. But nobody is talking about America’s Hidden Holocaust, the Destruction of Hundreds of Good and Innocent Low-Income Families by Child Protective Services… Currently Child Protective Services violates more civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the NSA/CIA wiretaping program, and as a Senator of New York she’s in violation of her oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States by permitting and encouraging CPS civil rights violations, particularly unconstitutional interviews of children at school without their parents’ knowledge or permission….
By constitutional law she is guilty of treason against the United States of America….
These Illegal interviews by CPS at school without a court order are a Direct Violation of the Constitution as reaffirm by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Doe v. Heck…
Note: IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR DCF TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION IN ANY HOME AND INTERVIEW A CHILD WITHOUT EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES (IMMINENT “PHYSICAL” DANGER) OR PROBABLE CAUSE.
This also applies to the Illegal Interviews done at public school without the parents knowledge.
Question: How is a child in “imminent physical danger” when the child is at school?
The decision in the case of Doe et al, v. Heck et al (No. 01-3648, 2003 US App. Lexis 7144) will affect the manner in which law enforcement and Child Protective Services (“CPS”) investigations of alleged child abuse or neglect are conducted. The decision of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the practice of a “no prior consent” interview of a child will ordinarily constitute a “clear violation” of the constitutional rights of parents under the 4th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. According to the Court, the investigative interview of a child constitutes a “search and seizure” and, when conducted on private property without “consent, a warrant, probable cause, or exigent circumstances,” such an interview is an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the rights of the parent, child, and, possibly the owner of the private property.The mere possibility or risk of harm does not constitute an emergency or exigent circumstance that would justify a forced warrantless entry and a warrantless seizure of a child. Hurlman v. Rice, (2nd Cir. 1991)
Personally, I Do Not appreciate Child Protective Services using the Constitution of the United States as Toilet Paper in a Time of War, while the Good Men and Women of our Armed Forces are Fighting and Dying for It.”
In closing all I can ask you is, would you want [ Your Children ] interviewed at School by CPS without a court order, your knowledge, permission, you or your attorney Being Present? THINK ABOUT IT…
April 19th, 2007 at 9:52 am
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