BIAW's McCabe key figure in firings scandal
"Out of control" pretty much describes the actions of the BIAW's Tom McCabe in regard to the Prosecutor Purge. The "he" in the first paragraph here refers to recently fired US attorney John McKay. From the AP via The Olympian:
Other Republicans mentioned in the article as demanding Justice get involved include former GOP senator Slade Gorton and former Republican state chair Chris Vance. Maybe Vance and Gorton were just engaged in overly theatrical antics, but the public deserves to know who they contacted, what was said and everything else about this sordid affair.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but wouldn't it be ironic if the efforts of Dino Rossi's biggest supporters lead to a scandal that hopelessly damages Rossi's chances in 2008? Normal people would have re-grouped, licked their wounds and figured out how to win more votes next time. Not this bunch. They had to get their revenge, even if it was against a fellow Republican.
Again, be careful what you wish for.
He said one of his first moves was in response to Thomas McCabe, executive vice president of the Building Industry Association of Washington, who claimed he had evidence of forged signatures on absentee ballots cast for Gregoire.The startling thing, of course, would not be that an extremist like McCabe would call for someone's head on a platter, but that the White House would be stupid enough to listen to someone like McCabe. Remember, McCabe was so hopped up about felon votes that he turned the BIAW into an amateur hour crime lab in his vain attempt to prove organized vote fraud. Have we forgotten the $10 bribe and phoney survey BIAW sent out in its quest to gin up evidence of vote fraud?
McKay said he asked Mark Ferbrache, supervisory special agent at the FBI, to assign Agent Joe Quinn to review McCabe's evidence.
Quinn ''seemed distracted, almost bothered that he was talking to me about it,'' McCabe said. ''He never instituted an investigation. No one was ever questioned.
''It started me wondering whether the U.S. attorney was doing his job.''
McCabe subsequently made repeated calls on the White House to fire McKay.
McKay said that when McCabe's materials were examined, ''it was not the conclusion of the FBI that they were forgeries.''
Other Republicans mentioned in the article as demanding Justice get involved include former GOP senator Slade Gorton and former Republican state chair Chris Vance. Maybe Vance and Gorton were just engaged in overly theatrical antics, but the public deserves to know who they contacted, what was said and everything else about this sordid affair.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but wouldn't it be ironic if the efforts of Dino Rossi's biggest supporters lead to a scandal that hopelessly damages Rossi's chances in 2008? Normal people would have re-grouped, licked their wounds and figured out how to win more votes next time. Not this bunch. They had to get their revenge, even if it was against a fellow Republican.
Again, be careful what you wish for.
