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Hey–what about the US Attorneys who didn’t get fired? Paul Krugman is asking (free link here)–and it’s a good question. Check out the US Attorney in charge of the NH phone-jamming, Thomas J Colantuono. Does Gonzales give prizes for slow response to Republican dirty tricks? It took Colantuono’s people more than a year before the FBI questioned their top/only suspect in the NH phone-jamming, a crime by Republicans. |
But in other matters, Colantuono could move fast. Just before the 2004 elections, he moved fast to block Democrats from questioning phone-jamming suspects–and fast again to file corruption charges against a NH Democrat.
In 2006, right after the Democrats’ landmark electoral victory, Colantuono also moved fast to shut down his phone-jamming enquiries, making a guilty plea deal with the last defendant that gave the Feds nothing and the Republicans everything.
More detail on this sordid story on DailyKos.