{"id":194305,"date":"2008-10-06T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/06\/special-prosecutor-in-us-attorney-gate-a-coverup\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:45:00","slug":"special-prosecutor-in-us-attorney-gate-a-coverup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/06\/special-prosecutor-in-us-attorney-gate-a-coverup\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Prosecutor in US Attorney Gate a Coverup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting tidbit on Mukasey <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2008\/09\/30\/a-look-at-nora-dannehy-the-newest-addition-to-the-us-attorney-mess\/\">assigning a special prosecutor to look at the US Attorney firing scandal<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Because of the litany of public corruption cases Dannehy, 47, has prosecuted, she has a reputation as a pitbull, say attorneys. But in actuality, they say, she\u2019s merely meticulous, hard-working and dedicated to her job. To that end, lawyers involved in cases with her know she sometimes calls meetings on Sunday evenings. And given Mukasey\u2019s request for a report in<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">60 days<\/span>, Nora might well log some weekend work between now and Thanksgiving<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough time so that nothing comes out before the election, but not enough to send it to the next administration, clever, Mukasey, clever.<\/p>\n<p>I have to believe that Mukasey&#8217;s actions have gone beyond mere hypocrisy.  He is actively obstructing justice, and needs to be criminally investigated too.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2008\/10\/01\/60-days\/\">Emptywheel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting tidbit on Mukasey assigning a special prosecutor to look at the US Attorney firing scandal: &#8220; Because of the litany of public corruption cases Dannehy, 47, has prosecuted, she has a reputation as a pitbull, say attorneys. But in actuality, they say, she\u2019s merely meticulous, hard-working and dedicated to her job. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1051,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hypocrisy","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}