I thought document dumps were reserved for Fridays, but no – today we have a lot of attorney-firing scandal stuff. Rove and Miers transcripts here, and White House and RNC emails here. Dig in!

Fun nugget re: NRO’s Rich Lowrey and Tim Griffin, a loyal Bushie they tried to replace a fired attorney with:

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Will we ever finish cleaning up the Boy King’s messes?

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”

Just another Sociopath for Jesus.  Nothing to see here.

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder [The Nation]

Awesome takedown, and on Fox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS9gpjzvYbs

Remember the good old days?

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It’s all they have left …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89Cw_r0LVk

Presented without comment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3QWF1bZc3M

Alright – I have a comment. Is that some of the most unhinged shit you’ve ever seen on TV?

Two weeks ago we introduced you to Scott Roeder, the murderer of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. At the time we noted that certain details of Roeder’s personal life seemed to fit in to a depressing pattern among right-wing extremists. Like so many others before him who have resorted to violence in the name of a grand, if hateful, ideology, Roder’s personal life was marked by failure. In personal and financial matters Roeder was a wreck, unable to maintain a marriage or hold a steady job.

Now we get word that another right-wing loser has gone on an ideologically inspired murdering spree.  Shawna Forde was a prominent member of the anti-immigrant Minuteman vigilante group that patrols the U.S. – Mexican border. She was also a member of FAIR, the Federation For American Immigration reform. Recently, after befriending Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen vigilante patrol, Forde founded her own branch of that organization called the Minutemen American Defense group and came up with a novel method for funding that group’s activities: she and her associates would rob suspected drug dealers at gunpoint and use the proceeds to keep on keepin’ on It seemed like a great idea at the time, no doubt. After all, what could possibly go wrong with a plan that reads like the plot t0 a Guy Ritchie film?

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