U.S. attorney asserts politics had no place in his decisions

[babylonsister]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17075348.htm

U.S. attorney asserts politics had no place in his decisions
By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The U.S. attorney in Milwaukee said Saturday that political self-preservation was never a factor in his decision to prosecute a Democratic state official for corruption before last year's election, and that he was never pressured by the Bush administration or the president's political aides to pursue the case.

Steven M. Biskupic also said in his five years as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, he has brought at least a dozen cases against Republican contributors or individuals with party ties. Further, he asserted he has declined to prosecute several allegations of Democratic voter fraud pushed by Republicans.

Biskupic's remarks came in response to a report by McClatchy Newspapers that congressional investigators saw his name on a Justice Department list targeting certain U.S. attorneys for removal because of perceptions they had performed poorly or were disloyal to the administration.

In a prepared statement and a telephone interview, Biskupic did not assert that he was targeted as political retaliation. "I have no idea either when, how, or why I was on this list," he said.

Lawmakers learned of the list weeks ago through their investigation into whether politics improperly influenced the Justice Department's firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year. They also want to know whether U.S. attorneys who remained may have responded inappropriately to political pressure.

The Justice Department's inability to satisfy lawmakers' concerns has put Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' job on the line. Asked to assess Gonzales' leadership, Biskupic declined comment.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. and all the gifts under my Christmas tree come from Santa

sorry, when it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it ain't a Golden Retriever, its a duck.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Sorry Bicuspid... You've brought shame to a fine, honest city.

NGU.

[sam sarrha]

3. are they so brain washed that they believe that Sh*t.. Reagency is tied for last worst legal collage

[rzemanfl]

5. Bisquick went to Marquette. n/t

[sam sarrha]

6. there are about 120 graduates of Pat's university working in the white house

[rzemanfl]

4. Does anybody expect him to say he persecuted that poor

woman because Rove told him to? I hope Georgia Thompson gets a shitpile of money for the book and movie rights to her story and uses most of it to make his life miserable.

[sam sarrha]

7. clean up enought to hire people to picket him where ever he goes 24/7/365

[Straight Shooter]

8. "he has brought at least a dozen cases against Repub. contributors or individuals with party ties"

For what? Jaywalking? Spitting on the sidewalk? Or was it something really serious and impossible to avoid charging them, such as extortion, bribery, forgery?

What were the cases, and when? Were they all as "paper thin" as this bogus case for which he now finds himself in hot water? I doubt it.

:nopity:

[ClassWarrior]

9. That's a whole fraction of a percent of the Rape-Publican corruption around here.

:eyes:

NGU.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Well I tried to find these cases that he referred to but couldn't find them

[Straight Shooter]

12. That's what Repubs do. They make assertions and don't provide data to support it.

Or else they lie about Democrats and leave it to the Dems to refute it, but of course the rightwing noise machine spreads the lie everywhere, and by then it's ususually too late.

[justgamma]

11. He has no idea why he's on the list?

I call BS. He said it in his statement. "he asserted he has declined to prosecute several allegations of Democratic voter fraud pushed by Republicans."

I rest my case.