If firing a federal prosecutor is not a crime, then why do we need a witch hunt?

Question

Have the democrats finally created a crime out of the firings, i.e. perjury?

Answer 1

So, after the hundreds of hours of testimony and the tens of thousands of pages of documents, they haven't found a single indication there was anything wrong with the reasons for the firings, even if they were mishandled.

All they have is Gonzalez not knowing much about it, or not having paid much attention to the process. Big deal. The Dems got nothing, except a bunch of baseless accusations. Have they no shame?

Answer 2

It is unethical to fire federal prosecutors for strictly political reasons. Here, there are allegations that the prosecutors were fired because they did not want to intervene in elections for partisan reasons (for example bringing actions that would have an effect of decreasing turnout in highly democratic areas, such as Philadelphia). This would be an unethical, if not illegal policy promoted by the federal government. Therefore, an investigation is necessary to determine what happened.

It is illegal to commit perjury. If congress is conducting an investigation and someone is giving sworn testimony and they lie, that is a crime, perjury.

Answer 3

While it is a crime to lie to Congress, the bigger crime is the fact that all this is another DISTRACTION from a corrupt government. I could care less about whether you're Democrap or Repukelican, the fact is, AG Gonsalez has been caught in a lie. As the AG, let alone testifying under oath, HE SHOULD NOT LIE.

Funny how Repukelicans called for impeachment because of perjury, yet whine and cry when Democraps ask for the same? Fact is, Clinton lied about fellatio. Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Gonsalez and company have lied about 9.11, the Iraq War, Attorney firings, Katrina, fundraising, Computerized voting and many other subjects. (I know, ya'll think I'm a conspiracy nut). Here's my clincher: the financial trail for 9.11.01 was followed, and many families here in NYC sued in Fed. Court as the trail led to a certain Saudi prince. "State secrets" was invoked by the DOJ (Dept. of Justice) at the President's request, and the lawsuit was dismissed.

We need to replace ALL THE ELITE in Congress with ACTUAL UNITED STATES CITIZENS, who care about the UNITED STATES.

Answer 4

Firing a Federal Prosecutor is not a crime, if it is done for the right reasons in the right manor. However, if you check out other questions in this and in other areas, you will see several people who have been fired thinking it was a crime - due to specific reasons.

Answer 5

The same reason they want an investigation into the commutation of Libby's ridiculous sentence, it gives the appearance that republicans are involved in shady scandals. Then of course, they will try to snare someone into committing perjury like they did to Libby.

Answer 6

It isn't, we don't. It is their way of trying to create a fake scandal and continue to do other things that they were sent to do in 06