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Paper: Politics Behind Prosecutor Ouster?
From The Seattle Times:
Two months after John McKay was fired as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, the reason for his dismissal remains a mystery.One of the most persistent rumors in Seattle legal circles is that the Justice Department forced McKay, a Republican, to resign to appease Washington state Republicans angry over the 2004 governor's race. Some believe McKay's dismissal was retribution for his failure to convene a federal grand jury to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the race.
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Comments (23)
TheOtherWA wrote on February 16, 2007 3:51 PM:The Republics in WA were fit to be tied when their guy lost by 129 votes initially. After going thru the vote fraud cases where people voted by mail for their recently deceased spouses, Rossi lost 2 more votes, so the final difference was 131 votes. It dragged thru the state courts for almost 6 months.
It's possible this influenced the decision to remove McKay a bit, but there's no way that's the main reason. Personally, the legal and proper handling of the Ressam case hurt McKay in the eyes of the pro-torture crowd.
Or there's something going on we don't know about yet.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on February 16, 2007 4:59 PM:The entertaining part of this chazeri is the press 'discovering' that the current Administation acts with willful abandon and zeal in their partisian polictical horse hockey. It is like the American people have been screaming under water for six years.
Thomas wrote on February 17, 2007 7:57 PM:john McKay lost his job because of internal Justice Department and FBI politics over a particularly troubling case in his district: The curently cold case involving the targeted assasination of Seattle Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Wales, an anti-firearms activist.
This case has tied the Seattle federal law enforcement establishment into knots for years, with very strong personailites clashing over the meanin gof the available evidence and whether it is eough to charge the principal suspect or whether any charge sdnow will clearly result in an reasonable doubt acquittal.
I think we'll never know much more about the McKay firing because of the intense secrecy surrounding the Wales case and its progress to closure.
eric wrote on February 19, 2007 3:23 PM:Do they even have a suspect in the Wales murder?
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Rex wrote on May 7, 2007 10:52 PM:I recently read one of your articles about Tom Wales, the federal prosecutor in Seattle who was murdered the month after the 9/11 attacks, and it reminded me of another unusual news report that was circulating at the time and then just faded away. This story was broadcast on at least 2 of the major evening news shows (if I remember correctly, it was ABC and NBC) but there was never a follow-up as far as I can tell. I don't see any direct connection to the Wales case, but it still seems suspicious. You can draw your own conclusions.
The links below will give you more details,
http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html
http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html
but the basic story goes like this -
Just after 9/11, some people in the banking/financial industry noticed that someone (it was never stated exactly who, but the suspicions at the time centered on terrorists) had made some very unusual stock transactions immediately before the attacks. It seemed that someone with advance knowledge of the attacks had invested some large sums in "put" options on airline stocks. In other words, they were betting that these stocks would soon go into a steep decline. Again, these stories were reported on the major networks and then just vanished.
Tom Wales investigated white-collar crimes in the banking/financial industry. Doesn't it seem odd that a federal prosecutor with this specialty would be killed (assassinated?) at about the same time as this other story makes national news and then disappears?
Maybe I'm just a conspiracy nut, but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion.
Rex Randolph
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