These guys are out and out crooks and they have no shame:
See Rove E-Mail Sought by Congress May Be Missing
According to CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), the missing emails total over 5,000,000!
If this doesn’t turn into a new Watergate for them, we are truly in trouble…
Kyle Sampson, Chief of Staff to Alberto Gonzales, who resigned last month, was asked two weeks ago under oath by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) whether he had specific replacements in mind for seven of the prosecutors before they were fired on Dec. 7.
“I personally did not,” Sampson replied. “On December 7th, I did not have in mind any replacements for any of the seven who were asked to resign.”
He claimed that only one of the ‘replacement’ attorneys had been chosen at the time of the firings.
As a general rule (more so than ever): If a “Bushie’s” lips are moving, he is lying.
So today, Sampson himself was exposed (via emails from January and June 2006) in sending around lists of replacement candidates for such attorneys.
In the words of Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.):
“These documents uncover one of the most central and disconcerting contradictions we’ve seen so far…We have been told that there were no backups in mind to replace the fired U.S. attorneys, and these documents make it clear that there were.”
I’m sitting here reading the headlines sipping a red wine that I have never heard of from a cheap juice glass…But right now it could be Night Train in this glass and it would still taste like a fine Bordeaux…
Wolfowitz - The Ultimate loser - One of the main neo-con architects of our present disaster in Iraq, and now head of the World Bank (Who’s idea was that? - Oh never mind).
Now he finds himself exposed in hiring his own girlfriend and giving her rapid pay raises, to the tune of $200,000, without consulting the board or the ethics committee:
The association representing the World Bank’s 10,000 staff said the embattled Wolfowitz had “destroyed” the trust of employees and should quit.
“He must act honorably and resign,” the de facto union said in a letter to staff, according to contents confirmed to AFP.
“The president must acknowledge that his conduct has compromised the integrity and effectiveness of the World Bank Group and has destroyed the staff trust in his leadership,” the staff association said.
Can these guys do anything right? He can’t even dress himself – look at the socks he was wearing with this nice suit when he had to take his shoes off:
Kind of a good metaphor for the administration in general – clean and proper on the outside, but on the inside they are full of holes and have no shame.
Just days ago, Wolfowitz was denying and defending his nepotism at the world bank - now he is admitting mistakes and trying to save his job.
He thought he could get away with this because he’s an arrogant bastard. Arrogant because they’ve gotten away with anything and EVERYTHING here at home. But on the world stage these guys have no credibility at all.
The other employees were pissed off and made some noise (in just the same way the American people and their representatives should be doing).
And outright denial doesn’t work in the rest of the world.