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The report describes an alleged “sexual relationship” between a career prosecutor and a U.S. attorney, who were not named. Margaret M. Chiara, the former U.S. attorney in Grand Rapids, Mich., said in an interview with The Times that she now believed she was fired because of the erroneous belief that she was having a relationship with career prosecutor Leslie Hagen.

“I could not begin to understand how I found myself sharing the misfortune of my former colleagues,” Chiara said of the eight other U.S. attorneys who were fired. “Now I understand.”

Justice officials said after her firing that Chiara was let go because of mismanagement and because she had caused morale in her office to sink. Chiara said Monday she believed those concerns were raised by the same people who spread rumors about her and Hagen.

“I guess now I am persuaded with deep regret that this is what was the basis,” she added. “There is nothing else.”

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Brian Williams recent interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad
http://cspanjunkie.org/?p=233

Aipac’s most recent spin on the Iranian President
http://www.aipac.org/

God … that really says it all. It’s so ridiculously frustrating. What are they waiting for with the indictments????

And how extensive do you think Bush’s list of blanket pardons will be? Will it go as low as Goodling and Sampson?

And what’s the statute of limitations on all this stuff. If I could burn four letters into Barack Obama’s brain, they would be these: AG-EW

Mayer
Microsoft 2.0
Spies for Hire
Bush’s Law
Glenn’s Book
Krugman’s Conscience of a Liberal

I can learn from all of them if I can get into them.

There Was Smoke — and Fire

But I’m not putting down the second book by the author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” — not parting with that or my copy of Shock Doctrine.

He got used this last week to bash Obama, on the con call with Scheunemann.

Or are they running up a trial balloon for a different spot for Hoek?

Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches

I think it’s essential that Goodling’s immunity is debated, but again, I doubt that charging her will matter much in the big picture. She’ll get a pardon after a few months of squirming and get a nice right-wing welfare job, maybe even collect a fat advance check from the Wurlitzer for a ghost-written book that’ll be remaindered as soon as it hits the shelves. And then she can meet a nice ‘winger boy that will marry her for her dowry and keep her pregnant and out of our site for the next 3 years…[shudder]