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May 17, 2007 07:23 AM UTC

Colorado Link to US Attorney purge?

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  • by: RedGreen

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McClatchy reports:

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department last year considered firing two U.S. attorneys in Florida and Colorado, states where allegations of voter fraud and countercharges of voter intimidation have flown in recent years, congressional investigators have learned.

That brings to nine the number of battleground election states where the Bush administration set out to replace some of the nation’s top prosecutors. In at least seven states, it now appears, U.S. attorneys were fired or considered for firing as Republicans in those states urged investigations or prosecutions of alleged Democratic voter fraud.

The two prosecutors who were targeted were Gregory Miller, the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Florida in Tallahassee, and Bill Leone, the former acting U.S. attorney for Colorado.

Full article here:

http://www.realcitie…

Includes these bits:

Republican assistant U.S. attorney who was appointed the top prosecutor in Colorado on an interim basis in December 2004, said in a telephone interview that he was never asked to step aside, nor did he know he was targeted for firing. He said he’d expressed interest in becoming the permanent U.S. attorney, but was never told why he was passed over.

“The whole process was a black box even when you’re inside,” he said.

Leone had led the office’s corporate fraud investigation into Qwest Communications, which resulted in insider trading convictions of two top officials, but he was criticized for falling short of expectations.

Leone, who described himself as an “independent-minded U.S. attorney,” said he was always aware that he wasn’t nominated by the president. “I always used to say to people I’m not the president’s man. My assumption was all along I would be replaced by somebody who had more political stroke. I understand that’s what happened.”

His replacement was Troy Eid, a former lawyer with the Washington-based lobbying firm Greenberg Traurig, which at one time had employed convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Eid had little courtroom experience and was a member of the conservative Federalist Society, Leone said.

Eid’s office didn’t return calls requesting comment.

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10 thoughts on “Colorado Link to US Attorney purge?”

  1. …of course Owens then appointed Eid’s wife Alison (talk about “little courtroom experience”!) to the Colorado Supreme Court.  “political stroke” aptly applies to the Eids.

  2. Jack Abramoff recruited Eid to the law firm of Greenberg and Traurig.  Eid’s primary practice area that he was introduced to by Jack A. was Indian Tribes and Indian Gaming.

    I’m a Republican but totally shocked by this.

    Bill Leone is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but he deserved better than this. 

    Wayne Allard shows what happens when you have a weak Senator who lets people roll over him.

    1. I beg your pardon……Wayne Allard is not weak!  For one of this administration’s potted plant, he has one of the strongest stems in the Senate Republican Conference!

  4. Apparently a number of Rove’s e-mail was misdirected. It is is possible that some useful ones will be forthcoming.

    GREG PALAST: Iglesias believes the real reasons for the firings are in what are called the missing emails, emails sent by the Rove team using Republican Party campaign computers, which Rove claims can’t be retrieved. But not all the missing emails are missing. We have 500 of them. Apparently the Rove team misaddressed their emails, and late one night they all ended up in our inboxes in our offices in New York City.

    The nice thing about this, is that PALAST is from Britain and W. can not put a gag order on him the way that they did to Sibel Edmunds. Palast is the reporter who broke the story about the voter issues in Florida and Ohio. In fact, the story was in EU for nearly a month before American press went after it.

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