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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (760124)	3/9/2007 6:45:14 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Read the proposed act, JDN. Here is the excerpt from the article: Democrats felt the administration had taken advantage of a change in the Patriot Act that took effect a year ago, which lets the attorney general appoint federal prosecutors indefinitely, without Senate confirmation. Gonzales has denied that was his intent and said he will submit the names of all appointees to the Senate approval process. Nonetheless, he told senators at Thursday's meeting that the administration would not try to block legislation designed to reverse the change in the law. Sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., the bill would impose a 120-day deadline on attorneys general for the nomination and Senate confirmation of appointees to any of the nation's 94 federal prosecutors' posts. After 120 days, appointment authority would go to federal district courts. The proposed reversal of the Patriot Act provision simply returns the situation to what it was before last year and provides timelines to be sure it does not bog down. Note that if the Administration had not POLITICIZED this whole issue by dismissing attorneys who were rated competent or above, for what appear to be PURELY political reasons. And then claiming, as did Gonzalez, that the reasons they were let go was incompetence. Baloney. He smeared those attorneys to cover the Administration's butts. Gonzalez deserved to be taken to the woodshed, and he was.