Stop the Coup at DOJ
Macsmind blog
By Macranger on News
I was working on a post when as it happens it was written by another. Erik at Redstate, speaks of the coup that is in full swing:
"If you haven't read Quin Hillyer's piece at the Spectator, you may want to read it first. Here's the thing folks, the President needs to fire some people at Justice. There are two specific people: Paul McNulty and David Margolis. Margolis is the assistant to McNulty and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty is the problem at Justice, along with a handful of Democrat careerists the President should have fired in 2001.
Let's be clear, no one is excited about Alberto Gonzales, but even a cursory reading of Jan Crawford Greenburg's book Supreme Conflict shows AGAG to not only be conservative, but also one of the people who kept, or at least tried to keep, the President from doing all sorts of dumb things — including advising against the appointment of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
Paul McNulty, on the other hand, wants to be Attorney General. I've been told by several highly reliable people that it is McNulty's office that is now leaking like a sieve everything they can find to cast the blame at the White House and Alberto Gonzales. It is McNulty who smeared the reputations of the eight fired U.S. Attorneys. It is McNulty who most likely added Kevin Ryan, a very popular and very competent U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, to the list of the fired. And McNulty is being aided an abetted by several career Democrats at Justice who President Bush should have fired when he came into office.
Let me put this bluntly: there is a coup going on at the Department of Justice. It has been fostered by career Democrats the President should have fired, but did not. It has now picked up momentum by a less than competent Deputy AG who has decided he can shove out his boss in a series of leaks and take his boss's job. "
We have long said that one of the gafts the President had when entering office was in NOT firing or replacing every holdover from the Clinton administration. Remember George (slam dunk) Tenet?
Just look at the last six years and count the leaks and their sources and at the other end of the phone was a democratic holdover, whether in the DOJ or the State Department or other government agencies, it's been an assault of a magnatude never seen before.
This is why I haven't jumped on the "Conservative Fire Gonazales" bandwagon that others have, and why it's critically important that they don't win this batter. The President should turn the tables on their plan and clean house.
Contact the WH and let them know that you want the President to clear out the bugs once and for all. macsmind.com |
