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Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 07:50:54 PM EST
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While no one was looking, in the middle of the disaster in New Orleans, Bush found time Wednesday to bypass the Senate and appoint Alice Fisher as Chief of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in a recess appointment.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo. Fisher can serve until January 2007.

There isn't any mention of the appointment on the Department of Justice's website or the White House site.

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    • Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment | 4 comments (4 topical)
    Re: Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment (none / 0) (#1)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    The man is irredeemable.

    Re: Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    Oh, he's probably redeemable. It would just take too much work and resources, and after all, no one relly thinks it's much worth the bother.

    Re: Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment (none / 0) (#3)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:07 PM EST
    Gee whiz, don't you know that the President can do work anywhere? Just because he's finding time to promote his morally repugnant cronies doesn't mean he's taking time off, I'm sure he was on Air Force One at the time, on the way to be photographed with some darkies.

    Re: Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment (none / 0) (#4)
    by john horse on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:08 PM EST
    So George Bush decided to take advantage of the nation's attention being diverted by the Katrina tragedy to sneak in a recess appointment. What type of person is George Bush? What type of person would take advantage of a tragedy?

    Bush Sneaks In Another Recess Appointment | 4 comments (4 topical)