Tonight’s All Things Considered includes a story about Dennis Hastert’s gripe that Paul Charlton wouldn’t prosecute marijuana smuggling cases of less than 500 pounds. The host interviewed our own Barbara Lawall to find out how this affected local prosecutors.
She complained about the “triage” that she must engage in because she is forced to devote personel […]
I detest the “-gate” construction. You know, where reporters name a scandal by simply ending it with the word “gate” and think themselves clever. I find it lazy, and none too revealing about the nature of the scandal. It also tends to diminish the importance of the Watergate scandal when every second rate minor scandal […]
The new story going around in legal circles is that Paul Charlton was fired not for investigating Rick Renzi, but instead for the leak of the investigation just weeks before the election.
Not that I would know anything about that.
The story made the Washington Post, but was ignored by our state’s paper of record. Well, worse […]
Ya know, if they were going to have a gap of missing e-mails, wouldn’t it have been prudent to choose a number of days other than 18? The words “gap” and “18″ have a bit of resonance with a certain earlier scandal.
Anyone check the times on those? Was it, in fact, an 18 1/2 day gap? Just curious. […]
Funny you should ask.
Earlier this week, Congressman Raúl Grijalva introduced the Clean Money, Clean Elections Act, which would in essence make Arizona’s Clean Elections System for state office holders the law for federal candidates as well. The bill has been assigned a number, HR 1614, and is also sponsored by Democrat John Tierney and Republican […]
It’s about to boil over. The AP and UPI are both running pieces on the Paul Charlton firing and questions on whether or not it was connected to an ongoing probe of Rick Renzi (I’m not saying he’s a carpetbagger, but his favorite Western is The Virginian).
The AP story is really an Arizona Republic article on the matter. […]
The Nation published a piece yesterday about the firing of Paul Charlton. As with most pieces on this subject, it leaves me with more questions than it answers. It does introduce a heretofore unknown (to me) character, a former US Attorney named Brent Ward. Ward prosecuted many pornography cases and became an ally of Ed […]
Check out this letter from Jon Kyl in this morning’s Arizona Republic. Kyl is claiming that he was not “fine” with the firing of US Attorney Paul Charlton. This would be in conflict with earlier e-mails that said that Kyl knew about the firing and had approved it.
Okay, three things could be happening here:
Kyl is […]
With all of the national media attention to the US Attorney scandal (has anyone come up with a snappy name for this yet? Prosecutor Purge?), there hasn’t been a great deal of attention to our own US Attorney’s office.
This may be because the cases in Arkansas and New Mexico have been so blatantly dirty; the […]
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