I hope that Rove and Gonzales go down for this one…

from yahoo(AP):

A midday e-mail between two White House staffers, dated Jan. 6, 2005, was titled, “Question from Karl Rove.”

“Karl Rove stopped by to ask you (roughly quoting), `How we planned to proceed regarding US Attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc.,’” Colin Newman, a legal aide in the White House counsel’s office, wrote deputy counsel David Leitch.

Leitch immediately forwarded that message to Sampson. Three days later, on Jan. 9, Sampson sent back a lengthy reply.

“Judge and I discussed briefly a couple of weeks ago,” Sampson wrote, referring to Gonzales, a former Texas state Supreme Court justice. He said the Justice Department was looking at replacing “underperforming” prosecutors. “The vast majority of U.S. Attorneys, 80-85 percent, I would guess, are doing a great job, are loyal Bushies, etc., etc.,” he said.

Sampson noted that, at the time, all 93 prosecutors were in the middle of their terms. “Although they serve at the pleasure of the President, it would be weird to ask them to leave before completing at least a 4-year term,” he wrote.

Politically, Sampson said the firings would upset home-state senators who recommended the prosecutors who lost their jobs. “That said, if Karl thinks there would be political will to do it, than so do I,” Sampson wrote.

Democrats have asked that Rove, Miers and other White House officials appear before Congress for questioning and are considering subpoenas if they refuse to.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said the e-mails “show conclusively that Karl Rove was in the middle of this mess from the beginning.”

The new document also indicates that Gonzales was considering firing prosecutors before he became attorney general on Feb. 3, 2005.

It’s kinda scary if it’s true that 80-85% of U.S. Attorneys are “loyal Bushies.” The Bush administration is apparently a cult of cronyism. I hope that these attempts by the executive branch to inject their corruption into the judicial branch will help to deflate the great-farting strides that Dick Cheney has achieved in strengthening the executive branch. There is a civil war in this country’s government, and we need to get behind the side of the legislative and judicial branches. Besides, the executive is an anachronistic residue of monarchism. Off with the king’s head!

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