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To: stockman_scott who wrote (102623)	3/21/2007 9:14:22 AM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 361245

My thoughts... 1) Presidential immunity? Watergate pretty much settled that. 2) Too many legislators who are up in arms about the US Attorneys firing also voted for the Patriot Act, which gives the President the power to appoint US Attorneys w/o Senate confirmation. Rescind that provision immediately. 3) US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President so he can fire them at any time. No question there. Is lying to Congress about a legal act (the firings) in itself a crime? When Clinton lied about legal, consensual sex the Republicans impeached him. Case settled there. 4) Were the firings an obstruction of justice? That's what we need to figure out. Obviously the inquiry into the Overblown Personnel Matter has a proper legislative purpose: indeed, two of them. There's the matter of undoing the Patriot Act provision that gives the President authority to name replacement U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely without Senate confirmation. And there's the question of impeaching the officials who have certainly been lying to Congress and perhaps have engaged in obstruction of justice in connection with the firing of the U.S. Attorneys.