We could have had another Saturday Night Massacre:
Mr. Sampson also acknowledged publicly for the first time that he proposed replacing Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago, at a White House meeting in 2006. Mr. Fitzgerald was then prosecuting the case involving the leak of the identity of Valerie Wilson, the C.I.A. officer. That led to the conviction this month of I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, on perjury charges.
"I said Patrick Fitzgerald could be added to this list," Mr. Sampson said, recalling a conversation with Ms. Miers and an aide. The suggestion, which he said he regretted, was immediately dropped. "They looked at me like I had said something totally inappropriate, and I had," Mr. Sampson said.
Memo to "loyal Bushies": When Harriet Miers thinks what you're proposing is too hackish, that's a very bad sign.
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