News Tom Wales
posted by on May 3 at 18:07 PM
This is fucked up…
Former U.S. Attorney John McKay’s name was on a list of federal prosecutors to be fired in March 2005, 18 months earlier than previously reported, according to a document released by the House Judiciary Committee today.And during a hearing in the nation’s capital, a committee member suggested McKay might have made the list, drawn up by the attorney general’s then-chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, for requesting “some action” by the Justice Department with regard to the unsolved 2001 killing of Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Wales.
In questioning former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., said: “It was suggested that Mr. Sampson had concerns or that concerns had been raised … relating to the murder of an assistant U.S. attorney named Thomas Wales, in which Mr. McKay had requested some action by the department.”
Tom Wales was for gun control. Someone shot and killed Wales—Assistant US Attorney Tom Wales—in his home. And McKay was fired… for giving a shit? For wanting to find the killer? For requesting that “some action” be taken?
What the fuck?
Says McKay…
“I’m just sick to my stomach. That’s the first I’ve heard of it,” he said. “Of course I was on a number of occasions, sometimes passionately, pushing for appropriate resources and appropriate attention on the Wales investigation.“I would be stunned to learn somebody back there put me on a list to be fired because I was pushing on the Wales investigation. This one is bizarre and insulting. It’s insulting to Tom’s family and my office and the people who cared about Tom.”
Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse—just when you think the Bush administration can’t get any more disgustingly corrupt—it gets worse.
The Justice Department under George W. Bush isn’t interested in investigating the murder of an Assistant US Attorney. Suggesting that taking “some action” on investigation into the murder of an Assistant US Attorney can get your ass fired.
And what did the Bush Justice Dept. want to see investigated?
McKay’s appearance on the list in March 2005 would have been contemporaneous with Republican challenges to the closely contested 2004 governor’s election in Washington state, won by Democrat Chris Gregoire. Many supporters of the GOP candidate, Dino Rossi, angrily believed that McKay did not do enough to investigate their claims of voter fraud—something McKay disputes.
Kill an Assistant US District Attorney. No big deal. Fail to bring bogus charges of vote fraud in a close election? You’re fired.
God help us.
god help us, indeed. i am going to go live in a cave. have i mentioned that? A CAVE.
McKay is on KCTS Connects tonight (Ch. 9, 7pm), though he probably won't talk about this because it was taped yesterday.
I hate to be the pedantic pissant that points this out, Dan, but you made the dreaded your/you're slipup in that second last sentence.
Anyways, I wish I could be shocked by this, but I don't know how the expectations of decency and integrity on this administration could be set much lower, really.
I was typing quickly and in anger. Forgive me the your/you're. And I'll forgive you for mentioning that piddling issue first, Wales' murder second.
WOW
I am shocked that I'm not shocked.
Remember that John McKay is not some pot-huffing kook leftie; he's a hard-core right-wing Reagan-Bush conservative. Or maybe I should say former... So it's not like he's got some kind of hidden agenda, besides, you know, upholding the law.
This government is falling apart, that's all I have to say. This is unbelievable. Tom Wales was murdered, and there's a widespread perception, apparently an accurate one, that no one in the Justice Department gives a shit. If they can't protect a US Attorney, they can't protect anyone. I hope they can't protect this repulsive President any longer, either. This is even more clearly an impeachable breach of duty than the Iraq war. Murder. How banal.
The icing on the cake is that for all our outrage, nobody in the mainstream media will follow this story to its conclusion. They're totally and completely complicit with the Bush Administration.
The good news is that these shitbags are all going down.
The bad news is that it won't happen fast enough.
I hate Earth.
Isn't it possible that they were upset that he hadn't arrested anyone for the murder after several years? We need more context and details on the remarks before we start making wild claims here (not that other wild claims haven't panned out in the past).
The depth of their depravity doesn't surprise me anymore. That's sad.
FUCK! I HATE THOSE FUCKERS! ARGH!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, that's the only sane response to this bullshit.
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(a consistently rational response)
One of the saddest aspects about this is that I'm not even the least bit surprised. I have finally gotten to the point that I seriously don't think there is anything that I could hear about the Bush administration that could shock me any more. Revelations of one atrocity or another seem to emanate from the White House on an almost daily basis. I'm convinced their isn't a single person in the Bush administration with an ounce of integrity.
I'm not saying I'm indifferent. Nor that I don't care. Just that I'm no longer surprised.
For a while I went along with the notion that Bush has so little time left that there was no practical value to impeaching him. But I really think he and his entire cabinet is corrupt and morally bankrupt to the core. There are any number of a dozen reasons to impeach all of them.
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Ryan @ #7:The icing on the cake is that for all our outrage, nobody in the mainstream media will follow this story to its conclusion. They're totally and completely complicit with the Bush Administration.
Ryan, who the fuck do you think broke this story? The Stranger? Click on the link, asshole. You think our democracy will be in better shape when morons like you kill off the mainstream press? Who do you think the Stranger is going to link to? We'll be in really great shape when the Stranger truly is Seattle's Only Newspaper...we'll know everything there is to know about chocolate assholes, that's for sure. Government corruption? Not so much
@15 - chill out and don't be so rude... your point is a good one though.
@15 - chill out and don't be so rude... your point is a good one though.
Sure there could be superficial 'vote fraud' reasons for placing Mr. McKay on a firing list, but there could be more sinister forces at work as well.
Maybe there were thoughts that the investigation of the murder of Tom Wales would lead to places those in power would like to be left alone.
We do not know what dark secrets Mr. Wales had uncovered, or what future prosecutions he may have been planning.
Finding his murderer might uncover something truly smelly.
The trouble with corruption is that one never really knows how deep it runs.
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