More Evidence of a Paucity of Reportable News on the Gonzalez Front
TPMmuckraker has to go down in the weeds of a USA Today story to pull from it a call by another Republican for Gonzalez to resign:
Now the calls for Alberto Gonzales’ resignation are coming from veterans of Bush’s own Justice Department. Here it’s Mark Corallo, the Justice Department’s chief spokesman from 2002 through 2005.
In a piece on Bush’s loyalty to Gonzales, USA Today reports that Corallo thinks Gonzales should step down over “mismanagement” of the U.S. attorneys firings. As he put it, “Alberto Gonzales’ loyalty to George Bush has got to trump George Bush’s loyalty to Alberto Gonzales.”
The USA Today article focuses on the committment to loyalty in and amongst members of the Bush Administration.
But, when I read the quoted passage taken out by Muckraker, my first thought was “Who the heck is Mark Corallo?”
Well, this is Mark Corallo
Mark is a veteran Washington communicator with extensive experience on Capitol Hill, in the Executive branch, on the campaign trail and in working with grass roots organizations to implement public policy initiatives….
From 2002 – 2005, Mark was the Public Affairs Director for the U.S. Department of Justice. In this capacity he served as the chief spokesman for the Attorney General and the Department of Justice on all matters including the Global War on Terrorism.
From 1999-2002, Mark was the Communications Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform. From 1996-1999, he served as Press Secretary to U.S. Representative and Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Bob Livingston (R-LA).
During the 2000 Presidential Campaign, Mark took a leave of absence from Congress to serve as Press Secretary for Victory 2000, the Republican National Committee’s official campaign effort.
Forgive me if I don’t place much importance on the opinions of a life long press flak aboub “mismanagement” of the Justice Department. What he knows about managing the Justice Department someone else told him.
What’s that old saying “When I want your opinion…” ????
Well, if you must know … haven’t you ever been curious about how testimony from the Fitzgerald leak inquiry kept getting leaked?
Meet Mark Corallo.
LabDancer (983970) — 4/6/2007 @ 12:05 amMore paucity from TPM.
I’m sure you will be quick to say; a.) It’s not criminal b.) They serve at the pleasure of the Prez
c.) rank cronyism and nepotism trumps any semblance
of competence.
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MINNEAPOLIS — It’s a major shakeup at the offices of new U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose.
Four of her top staff voluntarily demoted themselves Thursday, fed up with Paulose, who, after just months on the job, has earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dressing down underlings.
Deputy U.S. Attorney John Marty is just one of the people dropping themselves in rank to simply a U.S. Attorney position. Also making the move are the heads of Paulose’s criminal and civil divisions and the top administrative officer.
The move is intended to send a message to Washington – that 33-year-old Paulose is in over her head.
Paulose was appointed before the 8 U.S. Attorneys were given their pink slips, but she has deep connections to the scandal.
She was a special assistant to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, worked as a senior counsel for deputy attorney general Paul McNulty and is best buds with Monica Goodling – the assistant U.S. Attorney who recently took the Fifth rather than testify before Congress.
semanticleo (2f60f4) — 4/6/2007 @ 3:11 ammore
AF (c319c8) — 4/6/2007 @ 5:31 amAF:
Don’t you find it a little strange that these four “de-moted” themselves after a visit from the boys or girls from Washington.
davod (edeb6d) — 4/6/2007 @ 6:08 amYou don’t have to have a Harvard MBA to figure out that “Purgegate” was a management fiasco.
Blue Neponset (a09128) — 4/6/2007 @ 6:13 amOver at the Volkoh Conspiracy there is a blog entry by a lawyer complaining that Gonzalez is spending to much time preparing for his visit to the Senate. His comment – If he has nothing to hide why does he need to spend the time preparing.
I wonder how much he preps his his clients.
davod (edeb6d) — 4/6/2007 @ 6:13 amThe AG’s last name keeps being spelled inconsistently. It is Gonzales, not Gonzalez.
Joshua (59d1fe) — 4/6/2007 @ 6:27 am“Don’t you find it a little strange that these four “de-moted” themselves after a visit from the boys or girls from Washington.”
Would you read the damn links please…
The AG’s men were begging them to stay.
AF (c319c8) — 4/6/2007 @ 6:48 am