Dear Alberto, We don’t believe you.
Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) write AG Alberto Gonzales about the prosecutor purge.
Not all the senators up in arms about the administration’s prosecutor purge are Democrats. Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), for one, “can’t even tell you” how upset he is.
House Dem leaders unveil their plan to end Iraq war. Key provision: We’d be out of Iraq by September 2008 at the latest.
[ed.note: The post by Michael Barone referenced below was subsequently revealed to be a hoax. Someone apparently hacked into the US News website and added it to Barone’s blog.]
Even Michael Barone goes off the reservation?
From his US News blog from yesterday …
The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush administration.
When a U.S. senator (to wit, Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican) feels free to call a prosecutor at home and hang up on him for resisting political pressure in the course of executing his prosecutorial duties, the line between politics and law enforcement has been so thoroughly violated that it no longer exists.
What will Jay Carney say?
Will the House ethics committee actually chase Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM)?
It depends on whether Democrats will do anything more than talk about doing something.
Things are starting to move. A fourth newspaper has now dropped Ann Coulter’s syndicated column in the wake of her “faggot” comment.
Purge update: Senators to meet with AG Gonzales later this afternoon about the testimony of Justice Department officials.
CREW files ethics complaint against the ethics committee’s ranking member, Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA).