Bad Deeds for 3-17-07

Hewlett-Packard Co. executives fraudulently obtained private information from a public utility, accessed computer data without permission and comitted identity theft; now get slap on wrist – Regular citizens would be jailed and fined, rich executives got 96 hours of community service and have to make restitution for what they stole.

President of the Family Research Council, says global warming is part of leftist agenda to cause dissent – Tony Perkins of the Christian Conservative Family Research Council, said global warming was part of a leftist agenda that threatened evangelical unity. “We’re not going to allow third parties to divide evangelicals, and I think that is what is happening in part with the global warming issue,” Perkins said.

Prosecutors Ranked on Loyalty to Bush before Firings – In a 2005 memo, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, ranked U.S. attorneys, using ratings such as “bold” and “strikeout.” Sampson, who resigned this week amid increasing pressure, used the term “bold” to refer to “strong U.S. Attorneys who have produced, managed well, and exhibited loyalty to the president and attorney general.” Attorneys ranked as “strikeout” were recommended for dismissal and described as “weak U.S. Attorneys who had been ineffectual managers and prosecutors, chafed against administration initiatives, etc.”

These rankings were part of a memo to White House Counsel Harriet Miers who is believed to have recommended removing all 93 U.S. Attorneys at the beginning of Bush’s second term.

Newly revealed emails implicate Rove in US attorney firings – The e-mails, which indicate Rove was more deeply involved in the attorney firings than previously acknowledged, also implicate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. This contradicts earlier White House statements that the idea of firing all US attorneys was then White House counsel Harriet Miers’ alone.

Bush’s New US Attorney a Criminal?

Regards,

Jim