Sounds confusing.  No more than this tripe. 

(Warning - Biased BS Alert Amy Goldstein reporting):

“House Democrats, preparing for a vote today on contempt citations against President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel, produced a report yesterday that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the multiple firings of U.S. attorneys.

The report says that Congress’s seven-month investigation into the firings raises “serious concerns” that senior White House and Justice Department aides involved in the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year may have obstructed justice and violated federal statutes that protect civil service employees, prohibit political retaliation against government officials and cover presidential records.

The 52-page memorandum, from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), seeks to explain why Democrats are trying to overcome an effort by the White House to shield officials and documents from the congressional inquiry through a claim of executive privilege. The report also provides the first written account of the Democrats’ interpretation of the firings and the administration’s response to the controversy.

The investigation “has uncovered serious evidence of wrongdoing by the department and White House staff,” Conyers says.

The memorandum says the probe has turned up evidence that some of the U.S. attorneys were improperly selected for firing because of their handling of vote fraud allegations, public corruption cases or other cases that could affect close elections. It also says that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and senior Justice aides “appear to have made false or misleading statements to Congress, many of which sought to minimize the role of White House personnel.”

In addition, the memorandum asserts repeatedly that the president’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, was the first administration official to broach the idea of firing U.S. attorneys shortly after the 2004 election — an assertion the White House has said is not true.

In one of more than 300 footnotes, the Democrats point to a Jan. 6, 2005, e-mail from an assistant White House counsel that says that Rove “stopped by to ask . . . how we planned to proceed regarding U.S. attorneys, whether we were going to allow them to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc.”

The memorandum says that lawmakers need access to White House information to determine whether laws were broken and to rewrite laws regarding U.S. attorneys.”

Again, Political Appointees can be fired for ANY REASON.¬† That could be for wearing the wrong perfume - ANY REASON.¬† Oh, and by the way, it doesn’t matter who suggested it, and it’s perfectly legal and right for a presidential aide to make such an inquiry.¬† Now that the Donks got their “contempt citations” approved, it’s going to die there.¬† The DOJ will NOT refer to prosecution (good word).
Now with that aside, what’s this evidence that these jackasses are referring to? ¬† According to this report there is no evidence only the same assertions Democrats have been making all along.¬† No evidence - not one shred.¬† Just because Conyers and his clowns and nutroot constituants think it’s wrong doesn’t make it so.

As Tony rightly says:

“Repeating unsubstantiated assertions over and over again won’t make them come true. After months of hearings and thousands of pages of documents, the committee appears to have now shown what little they have to show for it.”

Which is absolutely correct. ¬† Dont’ kid yourself, I’ve told you before there is a reason they’re going after Gonzales, and it has to do with ongoing and pending investigations into several key Democrats and their activities over the last six years.¬† This whole farse is to neuter the DOJ and in effect hold them hostage via these hearings.

It’s not going to work and they know it and it explains why they continue their insane rantings and assault on the constitution.

Perhaps in light on what Congress is really trying to do, it’s time to begin to charge some of them contempt, that might be exactly what is needed to stop the nonsense.