Slog - Comments on Tom Wales http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales 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... Copyright 2008 Thu, 03 May 2007 18:07:37 -0800 Thu, 17 May 2007 05:13:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by adrian! god help us, indeed. i am going to go live in a cave. have i mentioned that? A CAVE.

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707402 News Thu, 03 May 2007 18:24:04 -0800 Comment by Jason McKay is on KCTS Connects tonight (Ch. 9, 7pm), though he probably won't talk about this because it was taped yesterday.

]]> Jason http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707405 News Thu, 03 May 2007 18:29:13 -0800 Comment by tsm 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.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707407 News Thu, 03 May 2007 18:31:43 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage 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.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707409 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707409 News Thu, 03 May 2007 18:35:56 -0800 Comment by monkey WOW

I am shocked that I'm not shocked.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707412 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707412 News Thu, 03 May 2007 18:41:27 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707420 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707420 News Thu, 03 May 2007 18:59:44 -0800 Comment by Ryan 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 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707430 News Thu, 03 May 2007 19:12:20 -0800 Comment by RKW The good news is that these shitbags are all going down.

The bad news is that it won't happen fast enough.

]]> RKW http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707436 News Thu, 03 May 2007 19:40:27 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I hate Earth.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707459 News Thu, 03 May 2007 20:11:40 -0800 Comment by bob 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).

]]> bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707460 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707460 News Thu, 03 May 2007 20:12:47 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell The depth of their depravity doesn't surprise me anymore. That's sad.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707466 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707466 News Thu, 03 May 2007 20:25:34 -0800 Comment by chris FUCK! I HATE THOSE FUCKERS! ARGH!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, that's the only sane response to this bullshit.

]]> chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707473 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707473 News Thu, 03 May 2007 20:47:14 -0800 Comment by Will Power ITMFA

ITMFA

ITMFA

(a consistently rational response)

]]> Will Power http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707476 News Thu, 03 May 2007 21:01:28 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA 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.

ITMFA

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707482 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707482 News Thu, 03 May 2007 21:20:01 -0800 Comment by kandi 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

]]> kandi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707524 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707524 News Fri, 04 May 2007 00:44:26 -0800 Comment by Eric @15 - chill out and don't be so rude... your point is a good one though.

]]> Eric http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707565 News Fri, 04 May 2007 07:47:15 -0800 Comment by Eric @15 - chill out and don't be so rude... your point is a good one though.

]]> Eric http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707569 News Fri, 04 May 2007 07:49:22 -0800 Comment by old timer 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.

]]> old timer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707571 News Fri, 04 May 2007 08:07:13 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @15

AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!1!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/tom_wales#c707616 News Fri, 04 May 2007 09:28:19 -0800 Comment by Buy antivirus Hello everyone, wanna be part of some kind of community, possible here? anyone here?

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