The contract specifies that Arnold & Porter will subcontract with another firm, Deloitte & Touche, to “assist Democratic members of the Committee on the Judiciary with issues related to the termination of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration, possible misrepresentations to Congress, interfering with investigations and matter related thereto.”
    The House Judiciary Committee already has as many as 30 paid staff positions, not including staff of subcommittees, aides said.
    The committee’s contract is for a sum “not to exceed $25,000 per month, plus authorized traveling expenses,” and is set to expire Dec. 31, 2007.
    The contract specifies that Irvin B. Nathan, a partner at Arnold & Porter, will be “principally responsible” for the contract.
    The contract also specifies that two Deloitte & Touche employees — Michael Zeldin, a former independent special prosecutor in the early 1990s, and David K. Gilles, a former Treasury Department official — will become part of the House investigation.
    Republicans denounced the move as “scandal-mongering.”
    ”It doesn’t take a quarter-million dollars and an army of lawyers to conclude that U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president, unless you’re a Democrat with a political dog-and-pony show to produce,” said Brian Kennedy, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican.
    ”If the goal is to distract from the fact that Democrats have no long-term agenda, they’re going to need an outside PR firm, not lawyers,” Mr. Kennedy said.
Democrats Set to Spend $25,000 Per Month And A Minimum of $225,000 over 9 months, On Private Attorneys To Try And Get Bush On Something..Anything…
Posted by Pam
on 3/28/2007
I don’t think the electorate elected the Democrats to enact an full employment at taxpayer expesnse program for lawyers. I pray thay pay dearly at the polls next election.
Um, $25k/month, not $225k.
1- Actually, I think the electorate voted in the Dems because they want rats in this administration flushed out.
3, Tofu, We will see, especially with the Ethically challenged Democrat party blocking all investigations into the Democrat Culture of Corruption.
2- I corrected it, thanks!
Another example of democrats posturing. To think these fools were actually voted in. Let’s hope that this will be the thing that gets them booted out in the next election.
4- Come now, PCD, you’re not going to claim Republicans have any better track record on ‘ethics’ now are you?
Back to the topic, I am on pins and needles for tomorrow’s testimony by Sampson. Should be fun!
TT…the difference is that we throw out bad apples….you guys bask in their corruptness and find ways to use it to your advantage.
8 “the difference is that we throw out bad apples:”
You do? Um, you missed one in Nov 2004 because, somehow, he got re-elected.
Sorry, that one was too easy and I couldn’t resist.
7, Murtha, Jefferson, McDermott, you sure clean house, Tofu. Democrat Culture of Corruption.
TT, yes that’s right, he was RE ELECTED. By the people, majority rules, that’s democracy working. Sorry it didn’t suit your tastes.
Bush has done NOTHING ILLEGAL and that’s the part you don’t get.
11, BonBon, the angry, frustrated perverts like Tofu are demanding the Democrats make being a Conservative and implementing other than the perverts’ agenda against the law.
The Democrats are just getting even for being kicked out of office and denied their pork and ability to oppress the people.
And that will be tax payers money those dasardly jackasses will be using IMPEACH THEM ALL RRRAAWWWKKK:mad:
1- Actually, I think the electorate voted in the Dems because they want rats in this administration flushed out.
So they could be replaced by worse rats? Rats carrying the plague for America?