--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" > <willytex@> wrote: > > > > jstein wrote: > > > Specter is not the author of the provision that > > > was snuck into the USA PATRIOT Act... > > > > > Well, then Spector is either a liar or a fool who can't even read! > And > > to think we pay people like this to work three days a week. Go > figure. > > As you know, Specter never said he wrote it. > > <snip> > > As you know, the bottom line is that any administration has the > right > > to remove its appointed prosecutors who serve at the president's > > pleasure, if they aren't aggressive in pursuing types of criminal > > activity the president considers significant. You have not presented > > any evidence that this is against any law. > > As you know, I never suggested it was. As you know, > that was never the issue.
Justice Dept. distances White House from firings of U.S. attorneys By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Justice Department said Wednesday that revisions in the USA Patriot Act that gave the administration unprecedented powers to replace ousted U.S. attorneys were designed by a mid-level department lawyer without the knowledge of his superiors or anyone at the White House.... Wednesday's explanation of the Patriot Act changes, along with the release of new e-mail correspondence, was meant to stave off mounting accusations by Democrats as their investigation into the administration's firing of the prosecutors widens. Democrats say they now are suspicious that the changes were part of an attempt to grab executive powers and play politics with prosecutorial appointments. They also accused the Justice Department of misleading Congress about the intent of the new law.... Read more about how and why the provision got into the USA PATRIOT Act: http://tinyurl.com/ystvo7
