Tom DeLay accuses Reid and Pelsoi of getting “very close to treason.”
Wanna see Karl Rove explain where the vote fraud ‘hotspots’ are across the country and how many US Attorneys from those ‘hotspots’ got canned?
We dug up the video of an April 7th 2006 speech Rove gave to the Republican National Lawyers Association in which Rove gives a run-down of six vote fraud ‘hotspots’. Of those six ‘hotspots’, the US Attorneys from three ended up on the chopping block.
Take a look.
Isn’t it enough for the RNC to run one cable news network. They’ve got to run CNN too?
Headline now running on CNN: “Cheney attacks defeatist Dem plan”
Late Update: It gets even better on the story page where they spell ‘defeatist’ with a third ‘e’.
Resigning from one House committee was so much fun, Rep. Renzi (R-AZ) decides to resign from another.
Late Update: Hmm, according to The Politico Renzi has asked to be dropped from the GOP’s big House Republican incumbent protection program. So maybe he’s thinking it’s a different house he’s going to next year.
And I hear there may be more to come on the Renzi front this evening.
“The Bush Administration has redefined the famous challenge of President Kennedyâs inaugural address. Instead of `Ask not what your country can do for you,’ it has become `ask what your government can do for our party.'”
That’s what Rahm Emanuel will say tomorrow in a speech his aides are billing as a broad indictment of the administration’s conduct on everything from the Attorney Purge to Iraq. We’ve got advance excerpts of Emanuel’s remarks for you to check out right now.
Breaking Big: Renzi’s fall tied to US Attorney Purge. More momentarily.
So it looks like Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) is tied up in the US Attorney Purge scandal after all. And the AP has the story.
This gets a bit complicated but here goes.
Purged US Attorney 
Paul Charlton was talking to House investigators this afternoon when he made an important revelation. Weeks before election day 2006, word leaked to the press in Arizona that Charlton’s office was investigating Renzi. Renzi’s top aide Brian Murray then called Charlton’s office and asked Charlton’s spokesman, Wyn Hornbuckle.
Unlike what happened with David Iglesias, Charlton’s chief investigator did report the contact to the Department of Justice, as DOJ regs dictate.
Now, here’s the key: after all Congress’s document and information requests to DOJ, the Justice Department had not revealed the Renzi-Charlton contact. For some reason, they’ve held that back.
The AP sources that to a House Judiciary Committee official and I’ve also confirmed with House Judiciary investigators that the DOJ failed to give this information to congressional investigators.
Renzi’s guy Murray released this statement this evening …
“Reports that I called Wyn Hornbuckle, press secretary to Paul Charlton are true. I called Mr. Hornbuckle seeking information about press accounts which appeared just weeks before election-day, alleging a pending indictment. I left him a message asking for information about these allegations, but I was called back and told they would not comment.”
So basically what we have here is a classic scandal harmonic convergence — new nuggets about the Renzi scandal and the revelation that another of the US Attorney firings may be tied to an investigation of a Republican lawmaker. At a minimum, the DOJ has concealed critical information about the story.
And one other detail to add to the mix. Remember that two weeks after his dismissal, Charlton emailed his superiors at the Department of Justice asking how to handle questions over whether his firing was tied to his investigation of Rep. Renzi (R-AZ).
Today’s Must Read: more on the Rick Renzi front. The Wall Street Journal reports that, as U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton’s office tried to push the investigation forward, his bosses in Washington delayed progress on the case for months.
Earlier this weekend, we told you to keep an eye out for news about Bradley Schlozman, who was up until recently the U.S. attorney for western Missouri. Here’s something to give you an idea of how he operates: the most important qualification a lawyer can have, apparently, is whether he/she is a Republican.