{"id":1163,"date":"2007-04-20T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/20\/doj\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T02:02:50","slug":"doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/20\/doj\/","title":{"rendered":"doj&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">What have we learned this week about the DOJ this week? We already knew about the political firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. We already knew that the political architects have all fled:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/doj.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Kyle Sampson, Harriet Miers, Monica Goodling, and Michael Battle have resigned. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Robert_Davis_McCallum%2C_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robert McCallum<\/strong><\/a>, the one who undermined Sharon Eubanks&#8217; Tobacco case, was appointed Ambassador to Austrailia. Michael Elston, hatchet man and <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/19\/do-i-hear-a-whistle-blowing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>honors program<\/strong><\/a> jury-rigger, is on leave.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">We learned from Senator Whitehouse that the approved lines of communication between the White House and the Department of Justice have been increased from 7 to 447:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/protocol.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But most of all, we learned that Alberto Gonzales is a political operative. His shameful testimony in the Senate Oversight hearing yesterday was designed to both mislead and also litigate for the Administration&#8217;s right to hide evidence [the Rove emails]. It&#8217;s clear that Lame Duck Bush doesn&#8217;t even care any more about the running of government. It&#8217;s all about continuing his tragic war and entrenching the Republican take-over. After yesterday&#8217;s pathetic showing, it seems to me that keeping Gonzales in his job is grounds for impeaching the lot of them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What have we learned this week about the DOJ this week? We already knew about the political firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. We already knew that the political architects have all fled: Kyle Sampson, Harriet Miers, Monica Goodling, and Michael Battle have resigned. Robert McCallum, the one who undermined Sharon Eubanks&#8217; Tobacco case, was appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}