Yesterday Mitt Romney said catching Osama Bin Laden wasn’t worth the money it would cost. The reaction from the media and winger blogospere? Take a guess.
Next up: ex-Rep. Hayworth (R-AZ) in the ever-expanding Abramoff investigation.
Patriot Act-appointee Schlozman heads back to Main Justice with another gig.
Just out from McClatchy …
Congressional sources who have seen unedited internal documents say the Bush administration considered firing at least a dozen U.S. attorneys before paring down its list to eight late last year.
The four who escaped dismissal came from states considered political battlegrounds in the last presidential election: Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Two of the four said they resigned voluntarily before the mass firings of U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7. Two continue to serve as federal prosecutors.
The big name here is Todd Graves from Kansas City who ‘resigned’ to make way for Patriot Act appointee Bradley Schlozman. This one’s important since Schlozman is a master of the ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement.
More to come on this soon.
Don Imus has nothing on Rush Limbaugh.
Check out these new racially-charged parodies of Al Sharpton and Barack Obama that Rush is pushing right now with his multi-media empire.
Not clear what this means. But it’s the Gonzales DOJ so … well, just read (from McClatchy) …
A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Departmentâs expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case.
Making the situation more awkward for the embattled Department, the official, Robert E. Coughlin II, was deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the Departmentâs probe of Abramoff.
He stepped down effective April 6 as investigators in Coughlinâs own division ratcheted up their investigation of lobbyist Kevin Ring, Coughlinâs long-time friend and a key associate of Abramoff.
There appears to be a multi-scandal harmonic convergence this evening with Friday afternoon breaks in several stories. We’ll keep you posted.
Another Friday afternoon DOJ Document Dump has just hit the web. Head over to this TPMmuckraker research thread if you’d like to help us wade through it and find the key details.
USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Randall Tobias resigns for “personal reasons.” Tobias’s sudden departure was announced late this afternoon at State.
Late Update: And it was broken by a TPM alum no less. ABCNews’ Justin Rood got the story: Tobias was on the DC Madam’s customer list. Those were the ‘personal reasons’ for resigning his position at the State Department.
For more on the DC Madam story, see TPMmuckraker’s running coverage.