I found this astonishing, damning post by "Citizen 92" at TPM Muckraker this afternoon. It sure looks like evidence of politicization and obstruction of justice straight out of the RNC handbook.

"In the second document dump, notice that White House Deputy Political Director is writing from the @gwb43.com email domain -- yet his official White House title and phone number is in the footer.

The gwb43.com domain WHOIS record shows that it is owned by the RNC.

Why are White House officials using e-mail accounts that are not their official White House domain server (@who.eop.gov)???

ARE THEY CONSCIOUSLY GOING AROUND HAVING IT REGISTER IN THE EOP SYSTEM SO AS NOT TO BE AN OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL RECORD (and hence, hidden from disclosure???)

Certainly a strange practice for a White House official to use an RNC domain for official communication with the Justice Department!!!

Posted by: Citizen 92

Date: March 13, 2007 01:33 PM"

Deny all claims and see who squawks. Sure it's blatantly illegal. Sure you might get caught. In the meantime you're saving beaucoup bucks, or in this case political capital. Screw justice, screw morals and screw the little guy who just lost his job.

I get sick of hearing the passive-tense defense. Just once before I die I would like to hear a Washington DC reporter answer that tired old line of "mistakes were made" with "Yeah, and who made the mistakes? They don't just happen all by themselves!"

Of course, that might interfere with the precious access the reporter needs to keep working on that novel of Washington intrigue.

Alberto Gonzales stood by the decision to fire eight U.S. attorneys last year, said "mistakes were made" in misinforming Congress about what really happened...

In other words, the Attorney General delivered false testimony to the Senate Judiciary committee, under oath.

If that's not a firing offense, then what is?

They should have gone with Harriet Miers's plan to fire all 93 USAs early in 2005. It would have been unprecedented, true, and probably would have caused a bit of a stir, but at the time, the newly-reelected Bush still had a fair amount of his "political capital" to spend, and more importantly, it would have been undeniably even-handed and fair. You can't be guilty of politically motivated firings when every single USA (all the President's 2001 appointees to begin with) has been fired.

that many of the administration shills were allowed to testify before congress without the burden of being "under oath." I watched with growing anger and frustration as Gonzales, Rice, Alito, and others went before congressional subcommittess and refused to answer direct questions. I'll be writing my congressman on this one.

that in spite of all the "progressive" hand wringing and rage this will go nowhere because no crime was committed.

The dems will push to get a few sound bites and harrumph a lot to sound important but it won't go anywhere.

Just like their recent Iraq "plans" and the plame scandal.

and by stalling and "investigating", most likely they're just digging the hole deeper ....

Gonzales gotta go.

good riddance!

I've been stunned by the disrespectful way he has been referred to by all sorts of folks on TV lately ... he must be a stunningly dim bulb for so many people to take it as a "given" ... even the folk who lament how badly he has "served" the president's interests.

at a minimum, if everything you're doing is all above-board and business as usual, what's with all the lies? or is that a national security "SECRET" too?

I love how "taking responsibility" means absolutely nothing anymore. Just like Mueller taking responsibility for the FBi's illegal snooping. Seems to me that responsibility ought to come with some consequences, otherwise it's not really very responsible.

WHO made mistakes.

see also: Scooter Libby and the outing of Valerie Plame ...

If they had just let Joe Wilson's editorial fade from memory ... but, no, that wasn't enough. They had to tarnish Joe Wilson's character.

Similarly, this might have blown over or rather been "overlooked" as another "nothing to see here", if they hadn't lied about the "reason" for dismissal and slandered these US Attorney's work reputation

it's just dumber than dumb ... one-trick pony ... insulting to our (collective)intelligence ... oh, and to our institutions.

Maybe not totally on point, but has anyone else noticed that some of the more notable believers in God or the great intelligent designer in the sky are often the first to ascribe bad actions to the unpredictable vagaries of the universe?

"Mistakes were made"?

By whom or what?

We never know. The mistakes just happened. Like Chaos Theory.

Yes, this administration is more than happy to point out how much God plays the invisible hand in their choices, but when their choices result in bad consequences it isn't even "The devil made me do it." It's "mistakes were made," as in "things just happened without any purpose or entity."

When trolling for your votes and support, they are God's own children. When in trouble, they're friggin athiests.

the fact that bush has not prompted a Rumsfeld-like sacrifice of Gonazales is shocking.

i'm appaled that this administration continues to defy it's own laws even while modifying them to appease itself. appaling. where is the media on this? at what point did corporate interest become so aligned with the ruling class/government that legitimate journalism ceased to exist.

was by those crazed "base" zealots who wouldn't let poor little Harriet on the Supreme Court where she belonged. That would've kept her out of trouble.

Is not just about the firing of the 8 US Attorneys-it is about the way this damned adminstration will lie to keep its power intact.

Until Rove, Cheney, Miers, Gonzales and a whole lot of other people are forced to testify to their specific roles in not only this crisis but others (think of the FBI and the "national security letters") will we ever begin to know the true depth of the corruption surrounding this administration.

I'm thinking it's about time for a special prosecutor; but wait, didn't they just fire a few of them? Whoops...wrong answer.

Nice idea, though. Impeachment isn't enough. Criminal trials would be even better.

Gonzales has to go. Bush is out of the country, but when he returns, that should be the first order of business. The second should be the House Judiciary Committee start firing off subpoenas.

For a few views on this matter, read today's NY Times editorial letters section..yes, I'm in it-under my real name. I thought it is about time we, the people started to speak up, and I did.