Bartlett offers new explaination: Lax Voter-Fraud Investigations in U.S. Attorneys' Firings

[maddezmom]

White House Cites Lax Voter-Fraud Investigations in U.S. Attorneys' Firings

By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 14, 2007; Page A06

White House officials, in providing new explanations of how and why several U.S. attorneys were fired in December, have said that President Bush mentioned to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in October that he had heard complaints from Congress that some federal prosecutors were lax in pursuing voter fraud.

In attributing the firings at least partly to an inattentiveness to voter fraud, the White House is invoking a contention that has gained prominence in Republican circles starting with the 2000 presidential election, as both political parties have become aggressive in trying to leverage election law into Election Day victories.

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Glimpses of the role those charges and countercharges have played in firings of at least some of the U.S. attorneys have begun to emerge in recent days. Yesterday, Dan Bartlett, counselor to the president, told reporters accompanying Bush in Mexico that "over the course of several years, we have received complaints about U.S. attorneys, particularly when it comes to election-fraud cases." Bartlett said those complaints have stemmed from New Mexico, where U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias was fired, as well as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301725.html


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[stellanoir]

1. oh so now

We're truly supposed to believe that they fired prosecutor's who were going after Repuke's who may or may not have been put in office in questionable and compromised elections because the prosecutor's weren't pursuing issues of election fraud.

* parading himself around as a champion of election integrity is enough to make me :nuke:

[rock]

2. Sure, sure, and Colonel Sanders fired his cooks

because they were using chickens in their cooking.

[rodeodance]

3. let them hang themselves.

[A Brand New World]

4. And if that's the case, the one in charge of Coulter's region

needs let go too! We haven't seen her ass in jail yet.

[Old and In the Way]

5. I got a better explanation.

Carol Lam was starting to investigate Jerry Lewis and other hi-profile Republicans who were tied to the Wilkes corruption case...along with the CIA and Abramoff.

Josh Marshall lays it out here:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013023.php