Monday, April 30, 2007

What was the Grand Plan of the Attorneys Purge?

As I research more and more on the attorneys purge, something is becoming painfully clear; not only, does President Bush and his thieves want Republicans "permanently" elected but, they also wanted Republicans to control all the money in USA. Rove put more planning into Attorneygate than Bush put into winning Bush's Iraq War.

Consider this, why Margaret Chiara got fired?

Finally, about the only thing that has appeared in the document dumps on Chiara pertain to her role in the NAIS.
And, as presumably-ousted USA Tom Heffelfinger pointed out, five out of the ousted USAs were on the NAIS.
Heffelfinger said he's been trying to understand why he might have been targeted. "The only thing I can think of is my advocacy on behalf of Native American issues," Heffelfinger said.
He noted that five of the eight U.S. attorneys who were fired had served on a subcommittee that works on American Indian issues; Heffelfinger had chaired the group.

Heffelfinger said he pushed aggressively -- without success -- for a seat on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee, which meets about monthly in Washington.

"It gives you direct access to the attorney general on a regular basis, not intermittently like I had," he said.

Of the dozen or so "subject matter committees" the U.S. attorneys have formed, the only one that never had a seat at the attorney general's table during in the Bush administration was the Native Americans issues subcommittee, Heffelfinger said. "And I thought that was inappropriate."

Well, Friday's document dump contains a good deal of support for this argument. But more importantly, it reveals certain behaviors on the part of Bill Mercer that suggest all sorts of things about the centrality of Native Americans to the USA purge. In this post, I'll just lay out the timeline. In a later post, I'll talk about Bill Mercer's role in all of this.
So here's the timeline:

February 14, 2006: Tom Heffelfinger, then chair of NAIS, resigns
May 9, 2006: Bill Mercer writes Kyle Sampson:

Have you filled the NAIS chairmanship? Chiara was Tom's vice, but she has limitations.

Sampson sends an email to Goodling stating he is 99% sure he hasn't appointed Chiara.

Goodling responds that,
Perhaps she just assumed it was hers after Tom left...

May 25, 2006: Judy Beeman in USAEO writes Goodling to say that she'll need to give Chiara a title for the AGAC summary; should she write "Acting Chair" of the NAIS?

Goodling responds:

Can Johnny [Sutton] handle when he calls to say they don't have any money for a subcomm mtg by just mentioning that he knows that AG is thinking about who to appoint, but that he knows she's on the list? Then you can send out your memo. Thanks.

From this exchange, we can conclude that:

Monica Goodling has absolutely no management ability, being unwilling to deal with this directly
DOJ wasn't going to provide budget for NAIS to meet

Johnny Sutton, a USA from TX being moved to DOJ, was asked to deal with this .

June 20, 2006: Chiara meets with Michael Battle, head of USAEO, regarding "WD/MI and NAIS,"--that is, her district, the Western District of Michigan, and NAIS.

October 22, 2006: Chiara writes Mercer to complain that EOUSA has backed out on its promise to fund Leslie Hagen as the primary liaison to NAIS.

I met with Dan Villegas. ... He informed me that he was no longer able to honor his previously stated commitment to renew Leslie Hagen's detail through which she primarily serves as liaison to NAIS and to federally recognized tribes and other Indian communities nationwide.

read more here http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/04/native_american.html

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