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of ferreting out this information. The only caveat here is that Reichert and the McKay brothers are very old, good friends, so, considering their history, it would seem counter-intuitive for him to be a part of this kind of planning from the beginning. I think, once again, the sheriff has found himself in the middle of something he can't really handle and, probably, now can't explain.

But I agree with Pete that it all eminates from Rove's office. I probably sound like a broken record on this, but I still think that Glynda Becker, Rick White's former congressional aide, and later Rove's west coast assistant just before the US atty firings, is someone who needs to be subpoenaed. She's the one who acted as the liason between Chris Vance, Bob Williams, Tom McCabe and Rove's office, when they were all out for McKay's blood after the 2004 gubernatorial election.

by shoephone on Wed May 02, 2007 at 11:15:32 PM PST

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Part of being ethical, is maintaining the appearance of being ethical.  

It is pretty clear that Reichert took this action, knowing of the strong ties to Rove.  

At the very best this was was a bad judgement call on Reicherts part.  

In the worst case however, its conspiracy to install a US Attorney for purely partisan reason, a highly illegal action.  

It seems that all its going to take to get Reichert in really bad trouble is a correspondence, e-mail, or phone record showing that he discussed his recommendation (or recieved his recommendation), from the White House Office of Political Affairs.  With three congressional investigations into these type issues, it will be interesting to see if they look into this.

Law expert Johnathan Turley specifically discussed this {replacing a US Attorney for partisan political reasons) on Olbermann last night.  Turley said that he didn't want to sound like a broken record, but he coudn't repeat enough how illegal this type action was.  

by CoolAqua on Thu May 03, 2007 at 03:28:59 PM PST

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