{"id":98,"date":"2006-01-29T21:17:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/29\/and-another-thing-2\/"},"modified":"2006-01-29T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T02:25:42","slug":"and-another-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/29\/and-another-thing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"and another thing…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another uplifting thing from today…<\/p>\n

Palace Revolt<\/strong><\/a> is an article in Newsweek<\/strong><\/font> that restores some faith in our system. It’s about the lawyers in the Justice Department who fought the good fight to uphold our system of justice when the issues like Torture, N.S.A. Unwarranted Domestic Surveillance, C.I.A, leaks, Presidential Power were being dealt with behind closed doors. There were American heros there with names like  Jack Goldsmithh and James Comey who stood up to the forces of darkness like John Yoo and  David Addington. All of these people are conservative Republicans. <\/p>\n

Goldsmith is gone now, a professor at Harvard. Comey has gone into private practice.  Comey was the one who confronted John Ashcroft about recusing himself in the C.I.A. leak case; he’s the one who appointed Gerald Fitzgerald to prosecute the case; he’s the one that wouldn’t sign off on the N.S.A. Spying.  Goldsmith pushed back on the torture issue.<\/p>\n

It’s a compelling, well researched and well written article. It reminds one of other stories, Bush and Cheney bullying the Justice Department to get what they wanted, rather than looking to the Department as a resource on legal matters, just like they bullied the Intelligence Agency about the Niger Forgeries or the Aluminum Tubes rather than looking to the expertise of our Intelligence community. <\/p>\n

What’s uplifting is that there were people in the Justice Department that fought back. They’re gone now. Our government doesn’t pay people enough to put up with that kind of crap. Bush, Cheney, and Rove as a team are so monotonous. They do not see anyone else as resources, just obstacles. When they set their mind on something, they just start hammering, using whatever method they can muster, until they get it. They interpret any dissent as something to overcome, rather than a potential source of higher wisdom. So they bull their ideas through. And they have some very, very bad ideas.<\/p>\n

One of the ironies of this Administration is that their push for power is not matched with any talent. They are basically incompetent, except in the area of turning their incompetent ideas into policy – a dangerous combination.  Read the story in Newsweek<\/strong><\/font>, if only to see that there were some mighty fine people trying to resist the tyranny of BushCo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another uplifting thing from today… Palace Revolt is an article in Newsweek that restores some faith in our system. It’s about the lawyers in the Justice Department who fought the good fight to uphold our system of justice when the issues like Torture, N.S.A. Unwarranted Domestic Surveillance, C.I.A, leaks, Presidential Power were being dealt with […]<\/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-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}