The Harriet Miers Pic That Speaks A Thousand WordsMon Oct 17, 2005 19:4364.140.158.30
Harriet Miers, assistant to President Bush, will head the investigation and will consider legal action against individuals for theft. White House aides are providing her with names of Clinton staffers who occupied offices in which the sabotage is particularly blatant.
The Harriet Miers Pic That Speaks A Thousand Words
By Debbie Schlussel
October 7, 2005
Miers (w/Bush) Honored at Liberal ADL Luncheon
Don't know about Harriet Miers' views? Well, here's the pic that speaks a thousand words about it:
Miers (w/Bush) Honored at Liberal ADL Luncheon This photo of President Bush and Miers, from the Dallas Morning News, was taken at a 1996 Anti-Defamation League (ADL) luncheon at which Miers was honored with the Jurisprudence Award.
The ADL is an extremely liberal organization that works together with the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center (which is now using the courts to help illegals and hurt citizen border patrols). The ADL doesn't honor just anyone. It honors people who are liberal and share its very liberal agenda. There is a reason Harriet Miers was honored by the ADL and it's not for her being a conservative (if she is one at all).
This photo was taken after Miers' supposed conversion to conservatism. And it speaks a thousand words...
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Harriet Miers, assistant to President Bush, will head the investigation and will consider legal action against individuals for theft. White House aides are providing her with names of Clinton staffers who occupied offices in which the sabotage is particularly blatant.
Video films of the ransacked quarters and damaged equipment are being prepared, as well as taped interviews with key people.
Offices in the vice president's quarters next to the White House were also found in a "complete shambles". Tipper Gore, wife of outgoing Vice President Al Gore said she was "mortified" and apologised to incoming Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Earlier this week it was learned that many computer keyboards in the White House are missing the letter "W" which is President Bush's middle initial. He is often known by that alone. It was the extent and organised nature of the mischief that apparently persuaded the incoming Bush staffers that it was more than just a prank.
"There are dozens, if not hundreds, of keyboards with these missing keys," a White House aide said. "In some cases the 'W' is marked out, but the most prevalent example is the key being removed.
"In some cases the 'W' keys have been taped on top of the doorways, which are 12 feet tall. In other cases, they were glued on with Superglue, right way up or upside down."
The vandalism occurred in "any number" of different offices, the aide said. "It has the technical and computer support people very busy. They already have quite a lot to do. I don't believe they expected to be coping with this as well."
The new White House staff have been told to keep quiet for now about the extent of the damage, Mr Drudge said. That means the worst may not be known yet. Prosecutions are considered likely.
Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=354989&in_review_text_id=299455
White House Trashed By Clinton's Staff ....Jan.26.2001
Clinton staff 'vandalised' White House
by Jeremy Campbell in Washington
President George Bush has launched an investigation into what appears to be a systematic disabling of White House equipment by outgoing members of Bill Clinton's staff, and obscene messages left for the new administration.
Harriet Miers, assistant to President Bush, will head the investigation and will consider legal action against individuals for theft. White House aides are providing her with names of Clinton staffers who occupied offices in which the sabotage is particularly blatant.
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Miers Coveruped Bush Guard Scandal
Miers was Paid $19,000 to Coverup Bush Guard Scandal
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From Philly's "Daily News" blog:
NEW SUPREME COURT NOMINEE'S TIES TO BUSH'S NATIOANL GUARD SCANDAL
White House counsel Harriet Miers has never served as a judge before, and while this career "hard-nosed lawyer" (as she is invariably described) from Texas certainly deserves some kudos for a trailblazing career as a female lawyer, she's not a legal scholar, either.
But she does know better than just about anyone else where the bodies are buried (relax, it's a just a metaphor...we hope) in President Bush's National Guard scandal. In fact, Bush's Texas gubenatorial campaign in 1998 (when he was starting to eye the White House) actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal pre-emptive probe of the potential scandal. Not long after, a since-settled lawsuit alleged that the Texas Lottery Commission -- while chaired by Bush appointee Miers -- played a role in a multi-million dollar cover-up of the scandal.
Whatever Miers knows about the president's troubled past, she may soon be keeping that information underneath the black robe of an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Miers, who not long ago succeeded Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez as White House counsel, is now Bush's pick to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor:
Miers is a skilled lawyer -- mainly on behalf of big business, including Microsoft and Disney -- and the first woman elected Texas State Bar President. But her main qualifications for the highest court in the land appear to be the same as most of Bush's recent appointments: She is unfailingly loyal to George W. Bush.
Here's how Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, on July 17, 2000, described her initial foray in the morass of Bush's Guard service:
The Bushies' concern began while he was running for a second term as governor. A hard-nosed Dallas lawyer named Harriet Miers was retained to investigate the issue; state records show Miers was paid $19,000 by the Bush gubernatorial campaign. She and other aides quickly identified a problem--rumors that Bush had help from his father in getting into the National Guard back in 1968. Ben Barnes, a prominent Texas Democrat and a former speaker of the House in the state legislature, told friends he used his influence to get George W a guard slot after receiving a request from Houston oilman Sid Adger. Barnes said Adger told him he was calling on behalf of the elder George Bush, then a Texas congressman. Both Bushes deny seeking any help from Barnes or Adger, who has since passed away. Concerned that Barnes might go public with his allegations, the Bush campaign sent Don Evans, a friend of W's, to hear Barnes's story. Barnes acknowledged that he hadn't actually spoken directly to Bush Sr. and had no documents to back up his story. As the Bush campaign saw it, that let both Bushes off the hook. And the National Guard question seemed under control.
So far, intriguing...but it gets better, and more complicated. At roughly the same time all of this was happening, Miers was also the Bush-named chair of the scandal-plagued Texas Lottery Commission. The biggest issue before Miers and the commission was whether to retain lottery operator Gtech, which had been implicated in a bribery scandal. Gtech's main lobbyist in Texas in the mid-1990s? None other than that same Ben Barnes who had the goods on how Bush got into the Guard and avoided Vietnam.
In 1997, Barnes was abruptly fired by Gtech. That's a bad thing, right? Well, on the other hand, they also gave him a $23 million severance payment. A short time later, Gtech -- despite the ongoing scandals -- got its contract renewed over two lower bidders. A former executive director thought the whole thing stunk:
The suit involving Barnes was brought by former Texas lottery director Lawrence Littwin, who was fired by the state lottery commission, headed by Bush appointee Harriet Miers, in October 1997 after five months on the job. It contends that Gtech Corp., which runs the state lottery and until February 1997 employed Barnes as a lobbyist for more than $3 million a year, was responsible for Littwin's dismissal.
Littwin's lawyers have suggested in court filings that Gtech was allowed to keep the lottery contract, which Littwin wanted to open up to competitive bidding, in return for Barnes's silence about Bush's entry into the Guard.
Barnes and his lawyers have denounced this "favor-repaid" theory in court pleadings as "preposterous . . . fantastic [and] fanciful." Littwin was fired after ordering a review of the campaign finance reports of various Texas politicians for any links to Gtech or other lottery contractors. But Littwin wasn't hired, or fired, until months after Barnes had severed his relationship with Gtech.
Littwin reportedly settled with Gtech for $300,000. This all could be interesting fodder for a Miers confirmation hearing this fall. But Bush apparently went for Miers' top two credentials:
Loyalty...and a little inside information.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002383.html
Informant: Neo Mulder
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Patrick J. Fitzgerald Investigating Bush Administration
indignation from the political right over the Harriet Miers
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NEW: Bush enlists support of former justices
Web Posted: 10/17/2005 04:53 PM CDT
Gary Martin
Express-News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON – President Bush enlisted former Texas Supreme Court justices Monday to bolster support for his nomination of Harriet Miers to serve on the nation's highest court.
John Hill, a Democrat, praised Miers' “legal brilliance” in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee as the six former Texas jurists made the rounds on Capitol Hill to rally support for the embattled nominee.
“We're here to try to let the people of America know what we all know, that she is an absolutely fantastic person and a great lawyer, and will make a great judge,” Hill said following a meeting with Bush at the White House.
Bush gathered the group, including Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, in the Oval Office for a photo opportunity, before sending them to meet with skeptical lawmakers who have raised questions about Miers' qualifications.
“Harriet Miers is a uniquely qualified person to serve on the bench,” Bush said. “She is smart, she is capable, she is a pioneer.”
The president said the Texas justices would confirm “that the person I picked to take Sandra Day O'Connor's place is not only a person of high character and integrity, but a person who can get the job done.”
Hill served as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1985 to 1988. He also was a member of the Texas Lottery Commission with Miers.
In a letter to the Judiciary Committee, Hill and other justices said they know what it takes to be a jurist and “Harriett Miers exceeds that mark.”
Some conservative pundits have called on Bush to withdraw the Miers nomination and replace her with a candidate who has a judicial record on social issues like abortion.
Meanwhile, Miers continued making courtesy visits to senators, who returned from a week-long recess on Monday.
The White House said she has visited with 18 members of the Senate.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to begin confirmation hearings next month.
Democrats and liberal-leaning groups have refrained from attacks on the nominee.
But a story in the Wall Street Journal – quoting an unnamed source saying a teleconference call organized by presidential adviser Karl Rove sought to assure religious conservatives that Miers would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade – prompted howls of protest.
“This is nothing short of outrageous, and the Senate Judiciary Committee should fully investigate these allegations,” said Karen Pearl with Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The White House did not organize the call, and “as far as I've been able to learn, no one at the White House was involved on that call,” said spokesman Scott McClellan.
“We don't know what her positions will be on future cases because we don't have a litmus test, and we don't ask those questions,” McClellan said.
“What we do know is that she is someone who is deeply committed to strictly interpreting our Constitution and our laws.”
Last week, James Dobson, founder of the conservative group Focus on the Family, denied he received assurances from the White House that Miers would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.
Dobson said he spoke with Rove, who gave assurances that Miers was an evangelical Christian with conservative views. Dobson later endorsed Miers on his radio show.
The White House used the former Texas Supreme Court justices to give lawmakers and conservatives assurances that Miers is deserving of confirmation.
In addition to Hill and Abbott, other former Texas Supreme Court associate justices who met with Bush include: Eugene Cook, Raul Gonzalez, James Baker and Craig Enoch.
gmartin@express-news.net
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