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Posted on Monday 14 May 2007

There are five levels [nine people] directly above the U.S. Attorneys:
  • White House Counsel: Harriet Miers
  • Deputy White House Counsel: William E. Kelly
  • Attorney General: Alberto Gonzales
  • Attorney General’s Chief of Staff: Kyle Sampson
  • Deputy Attorney General: Paul McNulty
  • Deputy Attorney General’s Chief of Staff: Michael Elston
  • Associate Attorney General: William Moschella
  • Director of Public Affairs and White House Liason: Monica Goodling
  • Executive Office of the U.S. Attorneys: Michael Battle
As of today, with the resignation of Paul McNulty, six of these nine people have now resigned from the Department of Justice since the story of the firing of the U.S. Attorneys has become public. This nasty story is getting nastier by the day. U.S. Federal Prosecutors were fired for:
  • Prosecuting Republican Congressmen for corruption
  • Not prosectuting Democrats when requested
  • Not pressing the Republican "voter fraud" [voter intimidation] Agenda
  • Supporting the rights of Native Americans
An orchestrated campaign was mounted that took the U.S. Senate out of the loop in approving the U.S. Attorneys, putting it in the hands of two very young Republican Operatives with little [or no] legal experience. Attorneys were chosen based on their records of party loyalty and experience in Republican Agenda service. Pertinent documents are either being willfully withheld or have been destroyed.
If this were a summer novel about political intrigue in the Washington, it wouldn’t sell – it’s just too ludicrous. The usual reader wouldn’t accept that an Administration could so infiltrate a system that it would not be able to right itself when this level of system corruption had been exposed. Yet, day after day, as we learn more and more about the depth of the corruption in the Department of Justice, the Attorney General keeps telling us that there’s no story here – no corruption [at least no corruption he can recall] is involved. The President will say only that he has confidence in the Attorney General. And the architect of the whole plan, the President’s political adviser, he don’t say nothing.

What got us here? How did we reach such a low point as to have an utterly ruthless, partisan government that governs irresponsibly, corruptly, ineptly, and has wrangled a situation where they can do so without oversight and apparently without penalty? How can it be that the legitimate media is so docile in speaking out about this rotten state of affairs, and an alternative media consisting largely of masters of sarcasm and contempt can hold the ears of so many people? We grew up thinking that the American system was foolproof, and would self correct when it became skewed as it is today. But one begins to wonder. The most frightening thing about this Administration is not its ineptness and its concerted attempt to reshape the entire system. The most frightening thing is their success at eroding the very system of checks and balances that should keep our governmental system running. It is not likely that the Bush Administration can create the kind of government they want us to have – their ideas are just too self serving to last. But it is possible that they can destroy the system we do have beyond recovery.

We don’t like to ponder such things – but this group of people have been able to sow such a divisive thread into our culture that they may have polarized us into camps that have actually lost whatever it takes to pull together and demand integrity from our system, independent of our partisan opinions. It’s actually a dark time in America – another Civil War. Even more than our disasterous war in Iraq, this Attorney Scandal is the crisis  that may make or break us. Without a viable and functioning system of justice, all else is lost…

  1.  
    Abby's mom
    May 15, 2007 | 4:09 PM
     

    Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the rest of the founding fathers were very bright and designed a system which has take over 200 years to destroy. After all these years and many attempts, the current group in charge seems to have finally found a way.

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