Just a snippet about the justice department’s response to Conyers’ supoena for more documents:
Responding, Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse stopped short of saying the department would fight the subpoena. But he said legal concerns about violating privacy rights of people mentioned in the documents have kept the Justice Department from releasing them.
"Much of the information that the Congress seeks pertains to individuals other than the U.S. attorneys who resigned," Roehrkasse said. "Because there are individuals’ privacy interests implicated by publicly releasing this information, it is unfortunate that Congress would choose this option."
I don’t believe that the reason they are withholding information is based on their concerns about the privacy of employees. I don’t believe any of their comments that are in this realm, like we’re supporting our troops by the surge. They’ve worn us out with these otherwise legitimate excuses already. They are so manipulative by nature that I cannot think of an excuse they might have for being oppositional that I would believe any more.
The dog ate your homework? Bring me that dog and we’ll cut him open…
What does “private” mean when you work in the public sector? Shouldn’t it be understood that if you work for the government then what you do and say can be scruitinized by the public that pays for that job? So, unless it’s home addresses and phone numbers I don’t see what “privacy” they could be talking about with regard to the public employees.
Grand point. What it means is, “we don’t want to let you see what we’re doing.”