Talk:Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy timeline

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1 To do list
2 Include Years in months headers
3 Todd Graves
4 The tense of the sentences
5 Sources to consider incorporating into timeline
6 Chronology to keep up with (add to-do items as needed)

[edit] To do list

Add stuff from TPM timeline and source it
TPM timeline - * Talking Points Memo - U.S. Attorney Timeline.

Washinton Post list of names at times to be added
Need to add the names from this timeline Graphic Timeline May 17, 2007.

Replace cites to Yahoo with same AP or wire service articles published elswhere
Yahoo times out repidly, but the wire service articles are widely published. Check also Breitbart.com AP wire item. -- Yellowdesk

Check if all cites to other timeline articles can cite back to the original sources
These other timelines cite original published sources. This article should too: check cites to U.S. News & World Report, TPM, Washington Post. -- Yellowdesk

Check citations to blogs, follow their cited sources
Gonzaleswatch and Talking Points Memo, among others. -- Yellowdesk

[edit] Include Years in months headers

It will aid the future edit summaries, and help keep the editors organized (and perhaps help readers) to put the year with every month. Objections? -- Yellowdesk 21:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

None from me. Go ahead and do it. Remember 22:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Done Yellowdesk

[edit] Todd Graves

Wow, great work on this page, guys. I noticed that you didn't metion the firing of Todd Graves in March 2006. I know that dismissal became an issue only recently, so it's not totally clear where it fits in, but I just wanted to see if that omission was intentional, or if you planned on including him (perhaps you are waiting for a secondary source timeline that includes him?) -Rustavo^{Talk/Contribs} 18:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

No intention; just an oversight. Feel free to add it. It's just hard to keep track of everything. Remember 22:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The tense of the sentences

I note an inconsistency in the tense of the entries, e.g. "February 2006 - so-and-so does this" vs. "February 2006 - so-and-so did this". Suggest these all be consistent, but not sure which way to go (recommend the least labor approach...). Bdushaw 19:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

~~:For the long run, the simple past is best. Jim ran, Bob said, Joe resigned. Monica met. Alberto denied. -- Yellowdesk 20:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)~~

I take it back. Let's leave them alone until we need to have uniformity. the "Past continuing" tense using the present tense seems to work just fine. -- Yellowdesk 19:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources to consider incorporating into timeline

[edit] Articles

[edit] Hiring Practices

Immigration Judgets not qualified: LA times, May 26, 2007 judges lack apt backgrounds -- (Yellowdesk 19:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC))
Washington Post Dan Eggen, March 26, 2007 Officials Say Justice Dept. Based Hires on Politics Before Goodling Tenure, Page A02
Isikoff, Michael; Evan Thomas. "[Bush's Monica Problem: Gonzales, the president's lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate", Newsweek, The Washington Post Company, June 4, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
Goldstein, Amy; Dan Eggen. "Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties: Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped", Washington Post, June 11, 2007, pp. A1. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.

[edit] Gonzales

Carr, Rebecca. "Former Justice Official Blasts Gonzales", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 9, 207. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.

Short article: Re: Daniel J. Metcalfe, the former director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy, Quote: Metcalfe "said he resigned in January because he could no longer tolerate the “sheer political expediency, avoidance of individual responsibility, defensive personal aggrandizement, irresponsible ‘consensus’ decisionmaking (and) disregard for longstanding practices and principles."

Carr, Rebecca. "Former Justice Department Official Calls Gonzales' Actions 'Appalling'", Cox Washington Bureau, Cox Newspapers, June 10, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.

Longer interview and article with Metcalfe.

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/tips/page/normal/6243.html Tipsheet "The resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales" Aug. 28, 2007 Publisher University of Indiana
Comments by
Craig Bradley, Robert A. Lucas Professor of Law
Fred H. Cate, distinguished professor and director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
Dawn Johnsen, professor of law and Ira C. Batman faculty fellow

[edit] Documents

http://judiciary.house.gov/Media/PDFS/EOUSA151-159.pdf McNulty's Commitee submission to keep Section 502 of USA Patriot Act in place.

Carr, Rebecca. "It’s Raining Subpoenas", Cox Washington Bureau, Cox Newspapers, June 7, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.

[edit] Members Congress

Feinstein Patriot Act 501,, 502, On White House intent: DoJ to create a loophole McClatchy Article.
Leahy: DOJ exploiting the loophole http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200703/031907.html

[edit] Bibliographies and Databases

Media Matters:

Search on fired attorneys Media Matters critique of coverage. Relevant. About fifty items on 3+ pages.

Search on Goodling Media Matters Goodling

Search on McNulty Media Matters McNulty

and so on

Sourcewatch

Access to a chronological bibliography of sources

Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/ Often has citations/sources to major media articles

[edit] Other

[edit] Chronology to keep up with (add to-do items as needed)

Hearings June 7 2007 on elections laws
June 7, 8 or 9 ,2007 Hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee/ subcommittee on Constitution on secret wiretapping programs. Info on the consensus or lack therof in DOJ and Whitehouse
Followup on Schlozman hearings
Followup on Gonzales vote of confidence June 11, 2007
June 5 or 6 Documents release. Not clearly accessible via Senate web page. Only Talking Points Memo seems to have.