A Snapshot of A F-ed Up Situation
This is from a letter to Josh Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com
A prosecutor from Washington state weighs in on today's Comey testimony ...
I've read TPM for years, and appreciate your work. I email you because I read something today
about the firing of John McKay that finally put me over the edge.
Apparently during Comey's testimony today he said that one of the reasons McKay got himself in
hot water with the DOJ heavyweights was because he was pushing for additional resources to
investigate the murder of Tom Wales, who was an Assistant US Attorney in Seattle. Tom Wales was
shot and killed in 2001. What nobody has talked about, and what you may not be aware of, is the
fact that Tom Wales was extremely active in attempting to get tighter gun control laws passed here
in Washington.
Think about that for a second. A pro-gun control federal prosecutor was shot and killed. John
McKay was agitating for more resources to bring his killer to justice. That pissed off DOJ, who
apparently thought that McKay should spend his time going after bogus voter fraud prosecutions
rather than solve the murder of a guy who was in favor of gun control. If you don't think the fact
that Tom Wales' political views weren't taken into consideration by the higher ups at DOJ when they
decided to punish McKay for fighting to find his killer, you haven't been paying attention to the way
these guys have operated for the last 6 years. Every single thing they do is about politics, and the
political views of those they help or hurt.
The bottom line of this whole McKay firing could be summed up in this way: try to catch
killers, you
get fired. File BS charges of voter fraud, you keep your job.
It's a slap in the face to every prosecutor in the country. It's our job to seek justice for those
that
aren't able to seek it for themselves. None of us should give a damn what the political views are of
the victims we try to protect. It's beyond reprehensible for them to punish McKay for doing this. But
for this administration, it's par for the course.
One quick note: the point about Wales was actually brought up first by Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC)
while
Watt was questioning Comey.
The rest of the reader's comments, I think, speak for themselves.
Go visit Josh and company at talkingpointsmemo.com... Those guys are reinventing public service
journalism all by their lonesomes.
B
Baerwald
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This is from a letter to Josh Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com
A prosecutor from Washington state weighs in on today's Comey testimony ...
I've read TPM for years, and appreciate your work. I email you because I read something today
about the firing of John McKay that finally put me over the edge.
Apparently during Comey's testimony today he said that one of the reasons McKay got himself in
hot water with the DOJ heavyweights was because he was pushing for additional resources to
investigate the murder of Tom Wales, who was an Assistant US Attorney in Seattle. Tom Wales was
shot and killed in 2001. What nobody has talked about, and what you may not be aware of, is the
fact that Tom Wales was extremely active in attempting to get tighter gun control laws passed here
in Washington.
Think about that for a second. A pro-gun control federal prosecutor was shot and killed. John
McKay was agitating for more resources to bring his killer to justice. That pissed off DOJ, who
apparently thought that McKay should spend his time going after bogus voter fraud prosecutions
rather than solve the murder of a guy who was in favor of gun control. If you don't think the fact
that Tom Wales' political views weren't taken into consideration by the higher ups at DOJ when they
decided to punish McKay for fighting to find his killer, you haven't been paying attention to the way
these guys have operated for the last 6 years. Every single thing they do is about politics, and the
political views of those they help or hurt.
The bottom line of this whole McKay firing could be summed up in this way: try to catch
killers, you
get fired. File BS charges of voter fraud, you keep your job.
It's a slap in the face to every prosecutor in the country. It's our job to seek justice for those
that
aren't able to seek it for themselves. None of us should give a damn what the political views are of
the victims we try to protect. It's beyond reprehensible for them to punish McKay for doing this. But
for this administration, it's par for the course.
One quick note: the point about Wales was actually brought up first by Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC)
while
Watt was questioning Comey.
The rest of the reader's comments, I think, speak for themselves.
Go visit Josh and company at talkingpointsmemo.com... Those guys are reinventing public service
journalism all by their lonesomes.
