Comments on: One Day, One Resignation http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67238 readerOfTeaLeaves Thu, 01 May 2008 20:20:50 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67238 <p>Clarification: Abramoff’s lieutenant didn’t make the $14m+; he was only the conduit. </p> <blockquote><p>Kevin Ring was exuberant. It was Feb. 4, 2002, and Ring, a young member of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying team at Greenberg Traurig, was laying plans to attend a Dave Matthews Band concert at the MCI Center. It was to be a celebration.<br /> “<strong>I have the suite filling up with DOJ staffers that just got our clients $16 million,” h</strong>e gushed in an e-mail to his colleague, Padgett Wilson. “Come to the show, baby.”</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/how_to_really_say_thank_you.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....nk_you.php</a></p> <p>Also at: <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1209114346968" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.com/jsp/article.....9114346968</a></p> Clarification: Abramoff’s lieutenant didn’t make the $14m+; he was only the conduit.

Kevin Ring was exuberant. It was Feb. 4, 2002, and Ring, a young member of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying team at Greenberg Traurig, was laying plans to attend a Dave Matthews Band concert at the MCI Center. It was to be a celebration.
“I have the suite filling up with DOJ staffers that just got our clients $16 million,” he gushed in an e-mail to his colleague, Padgett Wilson. “Come to the show, baby.”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…..nk_you.php

Also at: http://www.law.com/jsp/article…..9114346968

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67236 readerOfTeaLeaves Thu, 01 May 2008 20:11:18 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67236 <p>Helpful info.<br /> Thx!</p> Helpful info.
Thx!

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67235 readerOfTeaLeaves Thu, 01 May 2008 20:10:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67235 <p>Well, to add one more twist to the weirdness, my midday newz check turned up two items at TPM that are perhaps tangential here:</p> <p>1. Palfrey (DC Madam) reportedly committed suicide. It’s evident from a glance down the comments page over there that some TPM commenters are skeptical she took her own life</p> <p>2. One of Abramoff’s young lieutenants at Greenberg Traurig was all giddy about some lobbying deal that required DoJ approval (netting Abramoff wanna be $14million or so). His buddy emailed him to the effect, “Hey, let those DoJers have all the massages and whores they want.”</p> <p>No clue whether Abramoff’s ‘clients’ were being ’serviced’ by Palfrey’s outfit; or whether Palfrey left anything behind to nail the details. But all these things do seem to coalesce strangely at the present moment.</p> Well, to add one more twist to the weirdness, my midday newz check turned up two items at TPM that are perhaps tangential here:

1. Palfrey (DC Madam) reportedly committed suicide. It’s evident from a glance down the comments page over there that some TPM commenters are skeptical she took her own life

2. One of Abramoff’s young lieutenants at Greenberg Traurig was all giddy about some lobbying deal that required DoJ approval (netting Abramoff wanna be $14million or so). His buddy emailed him to the effect, “Hey, let those DoJers have all the massages and whores they want.”

No clue whether Abramoff’s ‘clients’ were being ’serviced’ by Palfrey’s outfit; or whether Palfrey left anything behind to nail the details. But all these things do seem to coalesce strangely at the present moment.

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67132 emptywheel Thu, 01 May 2008 08:01:48 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67132 <p>Shit. Really?</p> Shit. Really?

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67131 emptywheel Thu, 01 May 2008 08:00:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67131 <p>It’s not related to her sacking, but the law does address one of the problems Doan caused: she was trying to cut her IG’s budget and thereby force him to stop hounding her. The new law will give the IG’s a measure of budgetary independence.</p> It’s not related to her sacking, but the law does address one of the problems Doan caused: she was trying to cut her IG’s budget and thereby force him to stop hounding her. The new law will give the IG’s a measure of budgetary independence.

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67130 bmaz Thu, 01 May 2008 06:45:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67130 <p>Most interesting speculation I have heard yet JLo. Fisher is definitely a piece of work; and there has long been a strong argument that there should have been far more results out of the Abramoff cooperation than have occurred. If this turns out to even partially be the reason regarding fisher, that would be huge.</p> Most interesting speculation I have heard yet JLo. Fisher is definitely a piece of work; and there has long been a strong argument that there should have been far more results out of the Abramoff cooperation than have occurred. If this turns out to even partially be the reason regarding fisher, that would be huge.

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67127 JohnLopresti Thu, 01 May 2008 06:31:09 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67127 <p>Reportedly, Robert Coughlin, who is <a href="http://www.democracy21.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={AC81D4FF-0476-4E28-B9B1-7619D271A334}&DE={D3B1174B-A516-4962-88A9-E45DEE6808BE}" rel="nofollow">former DoJ criminal division deputy chief of staff for Alice Fisher</a>, last week filed and Judge Ellen Huvelle accepted, a guilty plea to conflict of interest charges for his work gifting and fundraising with Abramoff. As both DOJ’s public integrity section and the WA-DC US atty have recused, Baltimore Deputy US atty Stuart Goldberg is managing the case against Coughlin. The linked article says DoJ is mum about the process it used to select the Baltimore USAtty’s office to sub for the recused DC USAtty and the PublicIntegrity section, but sugggests associates involved in the matter may be at DoJ yet.</p> Reportedly, Robert Coughlin, who is former DoJ criminal division deputy chief of staff for Alice Fisher, last week filed and Judge Ellen Huvelle accepted, a guilty plea to conflict of interest charges for his work gifting and fundraising with Abramoff. As both DOJ’s public integrity section and the WA-DC US atty have recused, Baltimore Deputy US atty Stuart Goldberg is managing the case against Coughlin. The linked article says DoJ is mum about the process it used to select the Baltimore USAtty’s office to sub for the recused DC USAtty and the PublicIntegrity section, but sugggests associates involved in the matter may be at DoJ yet.

]]> By: radiofreewill http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67125 radiofreewill Thu, 01 May 2008 05:18:05 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67125 <p>bmaz - You’re right! It’s not looking like an executive privilege issue with Lurita - instead, it looks like she’s getting thrown to the dogs. I’ll bet Fox shows her as a ‘D’ on the crawl tomorrow, too.</p> <p>Here’s the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/washington/01gsa.html?ref=us" rel="nofollow">NYT</a>:</p> <p>White House Forces Out G.S.A. Chief by David Stout</p> <p>(snip)</p> <p>Much of the criticism of Ms. Doan came after it became known that on Jan. 26, 2007, a deputy to Karl Rove, then President Bush’s chief political adviser, gave a briefing to employees of her agency that identified Congressional Democrats the Republicans hoped to unseat in 2008, as well as Republican incumbents who seemed vulnerable. </p> <p>Several people at that meeting said later that Ms. Doan had asked how her agency could be used “to help our candidates.” Ms. Doan said she did not remember making that remark. </p> <p>(snip)</p> <p>Ms. Doan became administrator on May 31, 2006. Before taking the job, she led New Technology Management, a surveillance-technology company she founded in 1990. The company has become a major contractor for the Department of Homeland Security.</p> <p>—</p> <p>Yes indeedy, Lurita “No Shoulders” Doan was Bush’s watchful eye against Fraud, Waste and Abuse in his “Restore Integrity to the White House” Administration. Her operative motto could have been, “You can’t be too vigilant when looking for Snakes in Suits.”</p> <p>Well, with all the opportunity she had to ‘influence’ the action at GSA, she could very well have stepped on any number of ethical rakes…looking for those ‘Snakes.’</p> bmaz – You’re right! It’s not looking like an executive privilege issue with Lurita – instead, it looks like she’s getting thrown to the dogs. I’ll bet Fox shows her as a ‘D’ on the crawl tomorrow, too.

Here’s the NYT:

White House Forces Out G.S.A. Chief by David Stout

(snip)

Much of the criticism of Ms. Doan came after it became known that on Jan. 26, 2007, a deputy to Karl Rove, then President Bush’s chief political adviser, gave a briefing to employees of her agency that identified Congressional Democrats the Republicans hoped to unseat in 2008, as well as Republican incumbents who seemed vulnerable.

Several people at that meeting said later that Ms. Doan had asked how her agency could be used “to help our candidates.” Ms. Doan said she did not remember making that remark.

(snip)

Ms. Doan became administrator on May 31, 2006. Before taking the job, she led New Technology Management, a surveillance-technology company she founded in 1990. The company has become a major contractor for the Department of Homeland Security.

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Yes indeedy, Lurita “No Shoulders” Doan was Bush’s watchful eye against Fraud, Waste and Abuse in his “Restore Integrity to the White House” Administration. Her operative motto could have been, “You can’t be too vigilant when looking for Snakes in Suits.”

Well, with all the opportunity she had to ‘influence’ the action at GSA, she could very well have stepped on any number of ethical rakes…looking for those ‘Snakes.’

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67124 readerOfTeaLeaves Thu, 01 May 2008 04:57:07 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67124 <p>Wow, Rivkin’s opening statement was all about: 9/11, war, enemies… what a fearmonger. Yeesh…!</p> <p>Wm Leonard was a real breath of fresh air; good to hear such minds speaking up in animated, clear fashion.</p> Wow, Rivkin’s opening statement was all about: 9/11, war, enemies… what a fearmonger. Yeesh…!

Wm Leonard was a real breath of fresh air; good to hear such minds speaking up in animated, clear fashion.

]]> By: PetePierce http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67121 PetePierce Thu, 01 May 2008 03:56:40 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/30/one-day-one-resignation/#comment-67121 <p>You’re right there and that was the gov. assertion with Lynn Stewart of course and the more I read about her case, the less I understood a) whether she was guilty b) why she would have put herself in that position given her body of experience litigating with the feds for years. I was getting at the confirmation in the article that the government accidentally screwed up and gave to the defense with the rest of the discovery in the case that doesn’t suprise any of us at all where clearly the government has no justification to expect every attorney (and some the best and brightest) who are undertaking defense of terror defendants.</p> You’re right there and that was the gov. assertion with Lynn Stewart of course and the more I read about her case, the less I understood a) whether she was guilty b) why she would have put herself in that position given her body of experience litigating with the feds for years. I was getting at the confirmation in the article that the government accidentally screwed up and gave to the defense with the rest of the discovery in the case that doesn’t suprise any of us at all where clearly the government has no justification to expect every attorney (and some the best and brightest) who are undertaking defense of terror defendants.

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