White House Caves In To Attorney Reforms?

   After all of the flack for firing US Attorneys for basically no reason, the Bush Crime Family is changing some of their ways in dealing with such matters.

AP         March 9,2007

LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

Just hours after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the hubbub as an "overblown personnel matter," a Republican senator Thursday mused into a microphone that Gonzales might soon suffer the same fate as the canned U.S. attorneys.

"One day there will be a new attorney general, maybe sooner rather than later," Sen. Arlen Specter ( voting record), R-Pa., said during a Judiciary Committee meeting.

A short time later, Gonzales and his security detail shuttled to the Capitol for a private meeting on Democratic turf, bearing two offerings:

_President Bush would not stand in the way of a Democratic-sponsored bill that would cancel the attorney general's power to appoint federal prosecutors without Senate confirmation. Gonzales' Justice Department had previously dismissed the legislation as unreasonable.

_There would be no need for subpoenas to compel testimony by five of Gonzales' aides involved in the firings, as the Democrats had threatened. Cloistered in the stately hideaway of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., the attorney general assured those present that he would permit the aides to tell their stories.

 

IceRocket tags: white house, bush crime family, attorney general alberto gonzales

Who Will Certify Bush?

Original from DailyKos.com

 

Bush Will Certify Iraqi Benchmarks?

By BarbinMD

on benchmarks

When House Democrats unveiled their proposed legislation for Iraq yesterday, they said that their plan:

...would require Mr. Bush to certify that the Iraqi government is meeting a series of military, political and economic benchmarks. If Mr. Bush cannot verify any progress in Iraq, the legislation calls for the majority of all combat troops to be removed beginning July of this year and completed by Dec. 31.

But they didn't mention if he had to tell the truth.  Three days ago, during a speech to the American Legion, Bush said:

Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs: The Iraqi government has completed the deployment of three additional Iraqi Army brigades to the capital. They said they were going to employ three brigades, and they did.

But yesterday National Security Advisor Steve Hadley said:

I think the important thing to remember is we've talked about some encouraging signs. We're at the early stages of the rollout of the Baghdad security plan. The additional Iraqi forces are nearing the completion of showing up...The Iraqis seem to be showing up and stepping up.

Perhaps House Democrats should ask, who is going to certify the certifier?    

 

IceRocket tags: bush, certify, iraq