“Bud is lazy â which is why we got rid of him in the first place.”
That’s what Sara Taylor, Karl Rove’s senior aide, wrote to Kyle Sampson in February of this year. During the hearing this morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wanted to know: who was “we”?* Who’d decided that U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins was lazy? And who decided on that basis to “get rid of him?” It certainly doesn’t sound from the email that this was the Justice Department’s decision.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180410