SubscribeBut has the US Attorney ever done that before? Declined to prosecute a political friend on orders from the White House? Absolutely. The case was that of Reagan administration EPA chief Anne Gorsuch Burford in 1982.Oh boy.
And who was the White House counsel who ran the strategy? Why, it was Fred Fielding himself...
Know who helped direct Fielding's legal strategy on the Gorsuch case?
Guy by the name of John Roberts.
...And to add to the fun, the US Attorney for DC -- Jeff Taylor -- is one of the remaining PATRIOT provision USAs--plucked from among the Gonzales clique at DOJ and installed in DC just in time to prevent Democrats from exercising any real oversight.
I felt raped. The pig had done me on all fronts, and now he was going off to chuckle about it on the west side of town, waiting for me to make a run for L.A ...
They've nailed me! I'm trapped in some stinking desert crossroads called Baker. I don't have much time. The fuckers are closing in. They'll hunt me down like a beast!
What the hell is going on here? How could this once-proud nation have changed so much, so drastically, in only a little more than two years. In what seems like the blink of an eye, this George Bush has brought us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war.
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The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me... The massive plundering of the U.S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. You and me, sport — we are the ones who are going to suffer, and suffer massively. This is going to be just like the Book of Revelation said it was going to be — the end of the world as we knew it.
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When President Nixon ordered the firing of the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" on October 20th, 1973, Cox initially responded tersely, and ominously.
"Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men, is now for Congress, and ultimately, the American people."
President Nixon did not understand how he had crystallized the issue of Watergate for the American people.
It had been about the obscure meaning behind an attempt to break in to a rival party's headquarters; and the labyrinthine effort to cover-up that break-in and the related crimes.
And in one night, Nixon transformed it.
Watergate—instantaneously—became a simpler issue: a President overruling the inexorable march of the law…of insisting—in a way that resonated viscerally with millions who had not previously understood—that he was the law.
Not the Constitution.
Not the Congress.
Not the Courts.
Just him.
I confess some difficulty here in becoming particularly outraged over this latest theory. There is nothing new here. As has long been known, this administration believes themselves to reside above and beyond the reach of the law. What else would they need to do in order to make that as clear as can be? They got caught red-handed committing multiple felonies -- by eavesdropping on Americans in precisely the way the law we enacted 30 years ago prohibited -- and they not only admitted it, but vowed to continue to break our laws, and asserted the right to do so. And nothing happened.He then says, "The only real question is what, if anything, we are willing to do about that," and I agree with that as well. But I got nothing. The Libby thing drained me utterly. I wish I had a substantive contribution, but I don't -- I really believe what I said above about getting completely smoked. They were just better. Sounds despondent, but I can't lie about being baffled and confused. I expect some others feel the same.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:53 AM on July 20, 2007