There was so much absurdity to kvetch about that there wasn’t time. I feel that way with the news these days. It seems like every day, there some new Bishism to rale about. And like else everyone, I get caught up in the stories of the day. But occasionally, a story comes along that’s different – a story that’s more than just another inanity. I recall in the early 1970’s, I was living in Europe and the black and white T.V. with the wrong number of rasters was droning the news in the background. And then there was this British Newscaster talking about a break-in in the Watergate Complex – and it felt huge that very moment, though it took years to play out.
The C.I.A. leak of Valerie Plame’s identity felt that way too, and it’s still not over. But the story by Murray Waas in The National Journal of the President withholding security clearances for Justice Department Investigators trying to carry out a Congressionally ordered investigation of the Unwarranted N.S.A. Domestic Spying Program, and then forbidding the investigators to reveal why it wasn’t proceeding is huge – huge to me and apparently to others [1][2][3][4].
Surely we’re not so jaded to this Administration’s antics that we will accept this. It is, by definition, Obstruction of Justice. It is simply not possible to argue that the Justice Department Investigators are a threat to national security. The only possible reason to deny their clearance would be to stymie the probe. So, President Bush is perverting a Presidential Power to interfere with a Congressional Investigation.
This is a big story, not to be lost in the sea of other Bush bufoonery. This is a crime…
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