Schumer says Fitzgerald should stay
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Sen. Chuck Schumer thinks President-elect Barack Obama should follow the practice of new presidents in asking all U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations with the understanding that the Brooklyn-born federal prosecutor overseeing corruption charges against the Illinois governor will continue in that job.
Schumer praised U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who handed down a 76-page criminal complaint Tuesday against Gov. Rod Blagojevich on political corruption charges, as “a prosecutor’s prosecutor.’’
“The assumption is, he’s going to stay in the job,’’ Schumer told reporters following a private meeting earlier today with Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. But Schumer acknowledged he didn’t bring up Fitzgerald.
Holder is making the rounds this week with courtesy calls to senators on the Judiciary Committee who will conduct his confirmation hearing early next month.
Holder’s confirmation is expected to be the most contentious the Senate will have among the Cabinet members nominated so far because of his role in the 2001 pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.
Holder, a New York City native, served as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department of the Clinton administration.
Schumer was furious about the pardon at the time it was disclosed, but not anymore.
“I think it’s important to have an attorney general who learns from his mistakes,’’ Schumer said, describing Holder as ‘’contrite.’‘
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OF COURSE HE SHOULD STAY HE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF INVESTIGATING THE MOST CORRUPT STATE IN THE UNION
You mean the same state and corrupt Chicago machine that Obama comes from? Is this the very same Obama that could do no wrong in the media’s eyes? Wright “doesn’t matter.” Ayers “doesn’t matter.” Secrets about Columbia, Harvard and an entire list of other things “don’t matter” either.
THAT Obama? I am shocked. (The hell I am.)
How about corrupt ALASKA, with convicted Sen. Stevens, and his indicted Congressman pal. Isn’t that the state where Governor Palin is from?
Or do REPUBLICANS differentiate Palin from Stevens, but link Obama and Blagojevich?
As usual, the CONSERVATIVE DOUBLE-STANDARD reigns!!
Stevens has been convicted. Finito. And it is impossible NOT to link Obama and that stellar gov. of Illinois. They are part and parcel of the same machine.
Maybe it’s not coincidence that the first three letters of that state are ILL.
Not that NY, Jersey, or Lousiana are much better.
Palin wasn’t a pal of Stevens. Stevens was a pro-choice Harvard Law Grad who represented a different wing of the Republican Party in Alaska. Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama helped run the Governor Blagojevich’s election bid in 2002. Not a double-standard but a clear distinction.
I have to agree with annon on this one…stevens was not
part of the palin organization she represented a new
dynamic in the state…
obama on the other hand has endorsed blogojevich for
governor and the chances are at least 50-50 that
rham emanuel or some other white house staffer was
in talks for the senate seat..that does not mean
that obama did anything he shouldn’t have with regard
to the senate seat..it simply means that all the questions
about who was negotiating for what have to be answered
and coming from machine chicago obama certainly has
had some sort of relationship with lots of people who
probably don’t measure up…inlcuding the governor
So far, Obama comes off pretty good in this imbroglio. The slimy Guv is quoted as saying (supposedly on tape) that, though Obama’s “people” lobbied for his candidate, they wanted only to provide a “thank you.” The report though, that the lead investigator decided to prematurely conclude the investigation because he was “afraid that the newspaper reporter would be fired,” if he didn’t act quickly, will no doubt allow a lot of these sleezebags (especiallly including Jackson) to skate. Very convenient. The horrors being uncovered out there were probably escalating to the point of widespread and national scandal, as with Pandora’s Box. Eliminates the very real possibility of the deserved destruction of the very shady political machine in Illinois.
ed1 you need to get a load of gov blogs wife..she apparently
is the daughter of a chicago alderman….these people conduct their political business like they are made members
of the mob…same mo…same approach and language and same
outcome..they are all going to jail..
Her father, (the Guv’s father-in-law) had a falling-out with the Guv and called him an unethical, back-stabbing double-crosser. This, after the son-in-law expected him, too, to pay up for favors/ Sounds like the wife went along with her husband on this. Smart people steal only from wealthy parents, rather than the public in general, because parents tend to scream loudly at family barbeques, but rarely press charges.
The gov’s wife, Patti, who was a realtor, was involved in some deals with Rezko. And it was Rezko who was involved in that sweetheart house or property deal for Obama. Whether that plays into all this is not yet known. But round and round it goes.
The governors wife is basically a crook
Well, that means her, the governor, Rezko and who knows how many more in that Chicago machine?
Obama comes out of the same burning Chicago barn that was home to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow back in 1871—yet he “sees no evil” again. Just like with Wright and Ayers.
Obama is not very credible. And I think this latest situation with the crooked gov. is one more example of his pattern. It’s a disturbing pattern. But the media by and large gave him a gree pass all along. Instead of sending 6,000 reporters and producers to Alaska, they should have sent about a dozen to Chicago during the campaign.
But no…they wanted Obama to win. And to hell with any sense of objectivity.