Comments on: AG and FBI Director Threatened Resignation

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Sat, 27 May 2006 23:18:02 +0000

Not to piddle on any ones parade, but this does seem to be an anonymously sourced news story. So I for one don't feel very comfortable in thinking I know whether or not they did or didn't threaten to resign. All we know is that someone convinced a NYT writer that they knew. And to be fair, given the track record of some of the NYT reporters, we don't even know if there really was an anonymous source. This is really just a high classed rumor right now.

By: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts

PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Sat, 27 May 2006 15:45:31 +0000

Gonzalez, Muller and Other Threaten to Resign over Jefferson Docs...

The NYT (Gonzales Said He Would Quit in Raid Dispute) has a remarkable story this morning about a mass threat to resign by a number of high-ranking DoJ appointees if the President were to return the Jefferson documents to the Congress:
Attorney Genera...

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Sat, 27 May 2006 14:31:47 +0000

Gonzales Said He Would Quit in Raid Dispute...

I dont blame him. Hastert and Peloci were idiots to complain about the legitimacy of the raid. Bush was very wise to do what neither group wanted, and seal the documents for 45 days while they could check with the Supreme Court, but giving them back .....

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 27 May 2006 14:12:40 +0000

I am disappointed to realize that I cannot convince myself Bush made the decision he did on this, for the right reasons.

By: Hearsayer » Curiouser And Curiouser

Hearsayer » Curiouser And Curiouser — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:50:24 +0000

[...] AND YET MORE: “Separation of powers or no, Congress is not above the law,” writes James Joyner. [...]

By: Suaesed

Suaesed — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:35:04 +0000

If you check with the retired CIA Operations Officers like Johnson(TPM) and Plame, etc. you'll find that they agree. There will be no fight as far as the evidence; the FBI was right to insist on the evidence.

This reminds me alot of how these people deal with others. Fitz passes on a criminal conspiracy charge(s)... and its so much easier with the other Federal Employees(DOJ) and their unions. So, what is the real deal Fitz made to pass on the criminal conspiracy charges? He is not a democrat or Republican when he was asked about Plame, so maybe it really was the Federal Unions working together. Maybe he was scared, which is understandable when we look at retire(d)(ing) CIA Operations Officers and what they have done to US government employees. The Bush Administration and his advisors are the US government, we put them in office to run the country. What the CIA Operations Officers have done with the unique training we provided them for overseas work is scary. Fitz may have been intimidated. So, everyone gets along now that there are no criminal conspiracy charges coming out of DOJ.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:13:41 +0000

Feds were ready to take a stand in Jefferson case...

Via the NYT:
WASHINGTON, May 26 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that they were prepared to quit if the...

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Sat, 27 May 2006 12:37:20 +0000

Bush Orders Jefferson Documents Sealed...

President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress and ...

By: bRight & Early » First Cup 05.27.06

bRight & Early » First Cup 05.27.06 — Sat, 27 May 2006 12:32:35 +0000

[...] Outside The Beltway (James Joyner) AG and FBI Director Threatened Resignation — "I’m glad to see someone had some backbone in this matter. To have thrown away evidence against a corrupt congressman obtained through a legal raid backed by a judicial warrant out of political appeasement would have been outrageous. Separation of powers or no, Congress is not above the law." [...]