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May 29, 2007

Too Much Attention Being Paid to Native American Issues …

Joe Bodell of the Minnesota Monitor noticed something very interesting in Monica Goodling's testimony last week.

But the piece de resistance of Goodling's testimony may have been her claims regarding former Minnesota U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger's work: She testified she "heard" that Heffelfinger was on a list of attorneys to be sacked because of his work on Native American issues.

…[W]here else have we seen Native American issues popping up in Bush administration scandals? Oh, that's right: Jack Abramoff bilked Native American tribes out of millions of dollars, along with his buddies Ralph Reed, Michael Scanlon, and Grover Norquist. Several Republican lawmakers were involved with that little scam.

A number of people have been speculating about whether the firings were related to investigations of Republicans that the Bush Administration wanted squelched. Here we have an attorney's name added to the firing list specifically because he was too interested in Native American issues and at the same time, a big investigation is underway of a scandal involving Native American tribes and prominent Republicans with deep ties to the Bush Administration. Coincidence? I'm not so sure it is.

Posted by Becky at May 29, 2007 03:40 PM