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Andrew Heyman lives and works in Seattle Washington USA. His true vocation is political writing and agitating for the radical idea that a society that is governed by, and serves the needs of the people is best.
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"Discrepancies"
It seems that the Department of Justice (DoJ) is now officially changing its story about what it told Congress:
In a letter to leaders of the Senate and House judiciary committees, acting assistant attorney general Richard A. Hertling acknowledged that there is an "apparent contradiction" in a letter that he signed on Feb. 23 and thousands of pages of documents turned over to Congress in recent weeks.
Once again the former chief of staff to Gonzales, Sampson, is taking the fall for this. Sampson might well have been the one lying to Congress, but that is only because Sampson was part of a coordinated campaign to cover-up (unnecessarily) the politically motivated firings of the 8 US attoneys.
The real scandal in all of this is that elected officials outside the White House were pressuring the attorney's about various cases for political reasons. On that fron a new document turned-up supporting that claim:
A letter sent by a Republican Congressman to Carol Lam, former US Attorney for the Southern District of California, appears to violate the Ethics rules established by the House of Representatives, RAW STORY has learned.
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When RAW STORY brought Issa's letter to the attention of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, they confirmed that it appeared in violation of the same ethical rules that had prompted them to file complaints against two additional Congress members earlier in the month.
"CREW will be sending an ethics complaint to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct regarding Rep. Issa’s letter to former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam," Naomi Seligman Steiner, the group's Deputy Director, confirmed to RAW STORY this afternoon.
Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-CA) spokesman Frederick Hill told RAW STORY he wouldn't comment on a complaint he had not seen.
Make no mistake this is about the '08 elections, and the ability of the GOP to do everything possible to steal it:
The “Scoop” Independent News analysis of March 12, 2007 suggested that one prime motivation behind the abrupt firing of at least four of the eight U.S. attorneys was their failure to cooperate on election fraud related issues. In the case of two, it was a failure to pursue indictments requested by prominent state Republicans in New Mexico and Washington State.