Fired US Attorney, McKay, "My job wasn't to serve the Republican Party,"

And he speaks out about Gonzales as well.

From Oregon Live:

If anybody knows why U.S. Attorney John McKay was fired, he'd like to know.

In a speech Thursday night at Portland State University celebrating the launch of the Sidney Lezak Fellowships Program, McKay theorized why he was dismissed from his post in western Washington last year, along with eight other U.S. attorneys.

Some members of Congress have called for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign in the wake of the firings, which some suspect were politically motivated.

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McKay addressed a crowd of about 200 lawyers, judges and others, including the current U.S. attorney for Oregon, Karin Immergut. He stressed keeping the criminal justice system independent from political influence.

McKay, who was appointed by the Bush administration in 2001, said he was added to a list in March 2005 of U.S. attorneys to be fired. The action followed a close governor's election in Washington in 2004, won by Democrat Chris Gregoire, which Republicans had wanted him to investigate. He did not.

"My job wasn't to serve the Republican Party," he said.

While McKay denounced what he called a failure of leadership in the Justice Department and White House, he bemoaned questioning the ethics of all the department's staffers, especially when they investigate corruption by public officials.

"It is a reservoir of trust," McKay said of the Justice Department. "And so to do damage to that is a travesty."

McKay said he and the other fired U.S. attorneys decided to speak up about their dismissals after Gonzales testified to Congress that he would not use a provision in the U.S. Patriot Act to appoint replacements without congressional confirmation -- something the attorneys viewed as a lie under oath.

"I would have taken personal disappointment and even personal attack," McKay said. "But I couldn't be part of a lie."

He said he was personally hurt by Gonzales' actions because he had worked closely with him in the past and told lawyer friends it was good news when Gonzales was confirmed as attorney general.

"I said, 'You're gonna like this guy -- he's humble, he's honest, he's hard-working, and he's smart," McKay said. "And he's proved me wrong."

Telling...

~~McKay said he and the other fired U.S. attorneys decided to speak up about their dismissals after Gonzales testified to Congress that he would not use a provision in the U.S. Patriot Act to appoint replacements without congressional confirmation -- something the attorneys viewed as a lie under oath.~~

The only way to stop this administration's corruption, lies, secrecy, is to start impeachment investigations. Although many think this would stop the business of the congress, much now is not being accomplished because there is still an imbalance there. And if we, as a nation, do not address these problems now, what will stop future administrations from trying to do the same thing. This already has happened twice in my lifetime. First the Nixon Admin and now the Bush admin. Wake up America!