I'm constantly on the look-out for the dirt on Conservatives...

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Doesn't it seem a little odd that after 2 years in charge of the investigation and as soon as the "crap is starting to hit the fan" Bush has offered the Abramoff prosecutor, a federal judgeship thus taking him off the case.

Nixon 2 the movie anyone?

For sure.

Everyone knows he takes the evidence with him when he goes, and there's no way they'd start from scratch...

But it certainly would hinder the process would it not ? (In an election year)

Bush seems to want to put someone else in his stead, someone HE wants. Surely at this stage justice would better be served by delaying any change of prosecutors.

At this stage I am not really convinced of any mischief in the act but it does seem odd to me with the timing

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do they honestly think this looks ethical?

Specter Off To A Bad Start

At the beginning of the hearing with Attorney General Gonzales about Bush’s warrantless domestic surveillance program, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced:

1. Attorney Alberto Gonzales won’t be sworn in, even though the last time he testified under oath he misled the committee about the program. Leahy noted he was sworn the other two times he appeared before the committee. Leahy appealed the ruling of the chair and asked for a roll call vote.

2. Specter won’t allow videos to be shown during the hearings of the President and Attorney General Gonzales misleading Congress and the public about the program

I like Specter, I don't always agree with his politics but I have always held him up to be an principled and honest man. This is such a shame and not expected.
The other republicans on the comitte did as expected

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do they honestly think this looks ethical?

Specter Off To A Bad Start

At the beginning of the hearing with Attorney General Gonzales about Bush’s warrantless domestic surveillance program, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced:

1. Attorney Alberto Gonzales won’t be sworn in, even though the last time he testified under oath he misled the committee about the program. Leahy noted he was sworn the other two times he appeared before the committee. Leahy appealed the ruling of the chair and asked for a roll call vote.

2. Specter won’t allow videos to be shown during the hearings of the President and Attorney General Gonzales misleading Congress and the public about the program

I like Specter, I don't always agree with his politics but I have always held him up to be an principled and honest man. This is such a shame and not expected.
The other republicans on the comitte did as expected

...holding the line.

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I like Specter, I don't always agree with his politics but I have always held him up to be an principled and honest man. This is such a shame and not expected.
The other republicans on the comitte did as expected

Specter sucks donkey balls and always has.

He'd make a passable liberal, though.

I must also say it was funny watching him slap down Ted Kennedy during the Alito hearings.

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I like Specter, I don't always agree with his politics but I have always held him up to be an principled and honest man. This is such a shame and not expected.
The other republicans on the comitte did as expected

Specter sucks donkey balls and always has.

He'd make a passable liberal, though.

I must also say it was funny watching him slap down Ted Kennedy during the Alito hearings.

I'm not great big fan of Kennedy ( politics aside I have greater respect for Specter) but he did win that one.

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Specter sucks donkey balls and always has.

He'd make a passable liberal, though.

I must also say it was funny watching him slap down Ted Kennedy during the Alito hearings.

I'm not great big fan of Kennedy ( politics aside I have greater respect for Specter) but he did win that one.

Kennedy won?

Uh-uh.

Specter hadn't read the memo, but Kennedy's staff (among many others) had already parsed the papers Kennedy wanted to "subpoena", and the dumb bastard didn't even know it.

Specter wins points for telling him off, nothing more.

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I'm not great big fan of Kennedy ( politics aside I have greater respect for Specter) but he did win that one.

Kennedy won?

Uh-uh.

Specter hadn't read the memo, but Kennedy's staff (among many others) had already parsed the papers Kennedy wanted to "subpoena", and the dumb bastard didn't even know it.

Specter wins points for telling him off, nothing more.

Well yes, it turned out that specters office had indeed recieved the memo and kennedy's office had a confirmation of receipt. Specter admitted he had discussed it with his Chief-of-Staff on the phone and agreed to get the records.

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Kennedy won?

Uh-uh.

Specter hadn't read the memo, but Kennedy's staff (among many others) had already parsed the papers Kennedy wanted to "subpoena", and the dumb bastard didn't even know it.

Specter wins points for telling him off, nothing more.

Well yes, it turned out that specters office had indeed recieved the memo and kennedy's office had a confirmation of receipt. Specter admitted he had discussed it with his Chief-of-Staff on the phone and agreed to get the records.

No; I realize that was the favored story the next day, but it is as I described it.

The documents were requested by Kennedy from the archive, which forwarded the request to Bill Rusher, who had founded CAP, and to whom the documents belonged before Rusher deposited them with the archive at it's request.

Rusher refused Kennedy's request, but acquiesced to other committee members who openly shared the documents with Kennedy's staff, with Rusher's consent-he had spurned Kennedy's request just to tweak EMK, knowing full well Kennedy would get a look through other channels.

The documents had been vetted some time before the committee even convened, and Kennedy's people hadn't mentioned it to the boss because there was nothing there.

Imagine that...

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Well yes, it turned out that specters office had indeed recieved the memo and kennedy's office had a confirmation of receipt. Specter admitted he had discussed it with his Chief-of-Staff on the phone and agreed to get the records.

No; I realize that was the favored story the next day, but it is as I described it.

The documents were requested by Kennedy from the archive, which forwarded the request to Bill Rusher, who had founded CAP, and to whom the documents belonged before Rusher deposited them with the archive at it's request.

Rusher refused Kennedy's request, but acquiesced to other committee members who openly shared the documents with Kennedy's staff, with Rusher's consent-he had spurned Kennedy's request just to tweak EMK, knowing full well Kennedy would get a look through other channels.

The documents had been vetted some time before the committee even convened, and Kennedy's people hadn't mentioned it to the boss because there was nothing there.

Imagine that...

interesting...got a source?

even so how does this relate to the specter/kennedy tiff?

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No; I realize that was the favored story the next day, but it is as I described it.

The documents were requested by Kennedy from the archive, which forwarded the request to Bill Rusher, who had founded CAP, and to whom the documents belonged before Rusher deposited them with the archive at it's request.

Rusher refused Kennedy's request, but acquiesced to other committee members who openly shared the documents with Kennedy's staff, with Rusher's consent-he had spurned Kennedy's request just to tweak EMK, knowing full well Kennedy would get a look through other channels.

The documents had been vetted some time before the committee even convened, and Kennedy's people hadn't mentioned it to the boss because there was nothing there.

Imagine that...

interesting...got a source?

even so how does this relate to the specter/kennedy tiff?

The source is Rusher himself.

It serves to indicate Specter was wrong, but entertaining, while Kennedy was ignorant as well as wrong, pompous and, well, Kennedyesque.

He is a total caricature; a bad joke.