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Are_we_sure ago

Was McKay a victim of pedophiles at Seattle Prep -- and that history used as leverage to get him to stand down on voter fraud investigation?

You're making a pretty big leap here are you not? It seems like you are making several.

  1. That McKay was abused at Seattle Prep.....Do you have any idea how unlikely this is? Even in a school with offending teachers, it would still be a small number of victims.

  2. That the pedophiles who abused him at a concern about a voter fraud case decades later?Or did somebody else learn of this history and use it as leverage?

  3. That he did stand down on a voter fraud case.

And this seems to be around the time of the US Attorneys Scandal in the Bush WhiteHouse.

Yup. This was smack dab in the middle of the US Attorney's Scandal. McKay wrote an article about this is 2017

The Bush administration fired me from the Justice Department over politics

As one of the nine US attorneys fired for political reasons in 2006 and 2007, I was an unwilling participant in what was, until now, the biggest scandal to shake the Justice Department since the "Saturday Night Massacre" firings during Watergate more than 40 years ago.

The US attorneys episode, which clouded President George W. Bush’s second term, revealed just how explosive it can be to violate norms that insulate criminal investigation and prosecution from politics. Eventually, almost everyone who took part in the decision — and then attempted to cover it up — lost their jobs and reputations. Unfortunately, the Trump administration seems to have forgotten those lessons in firing Comey.

For those who may have forgotten, or are too young to remember, the scandal began when the Bush administration unexpectedly asked for the resignations of nine US attorneys in 2006, a move that erupted into scandal in early 2007. The custom had long been that US attorneys, who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, submit their resignations only when a new president takes office. That norm exists so administrations aren’t tempted to punish and reward federal attorneys for politically motivated work.

Ideologues in the Bush administration were unhappy with that tradition, and targeted attorneys for various decisions that, in their view, had hurt Republicans. They also hoped to take advantage of a loophole in the Patriot Act that allowed the attorney general, rather than the president, to appoint interim US attorneys, thereby bypassing Senate confirmation.