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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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 Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: Guess the date Gonzo resigns, gets fired or is arrested. . . |
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whichever comes first.
Recent Developments in the Scandal
over the Attorney General's Performance
by John W. Dean
Alberto Gonzales Displays Contempt for Congress, And Perhaps the Department of Justice As Well
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7540
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Okay, first of all, R.S, I'm in full agreement about this whole Gonzales affair.
I read your article, and something struck me as odd.
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At dusk on a Saturday in May 2006, at about 7:15 p.m., and operating under the personal approval of Gonzales, not less than fifteen FBI agents wearing business suits arrived at the main entrance of the Rayburn House Office Building to exercise a court- approved search warrant. The FBI agents demanded entrance to Room 2133, the offices of Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson, and the Capitol Hill Police, who guard the building, let them in. Eighteen hour later, at about 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, the agents departed with an estimated 19,000 pages of documents and digital copies of computer drives.
Congressman Jefferson was, it appears, in deep trouble: He had been videotaped taking a $100,000 bribe in $100 bills from an FBI informant (of which $90,000 was later found in the freezer at his home). Yet what was done to him set a baleful precedent, and Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were understandably outraged. Neither Attorney General Gonzales, nor anyone else in the Department of Justice or FBI, had even deigned to inform the Speaker of these actions.
"The Justice Department was wrong to seize records from Congressman Jefferson's office in violation of the constitutional principle of separation of powers, the speech or debate clause of the Constitution, and the practice of the last 219 years," Mr. Hastert and Ms. Pelosi declared. It is possibly the only thing that they have ever agreed upon, and their colleagues on both sides of the House were with them. |
How is this a bad thing? Jefferson was a corrupt Congressman on the take? Isn't it kind of a conflict of interest when Hastert and Pelosi demand that the Justice Dept. protect their rights...to the point where they could warn others about these kinds of raids? Even your article admits this.
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| Was the raid actually a constitutional violation? Probably not - but it was an important violation of tradition. A reporter for the Washington Post, after talking with experts, described the raid as "an aggressive tactic that broke a long-standing political custom," and concluded that "while it might violate the spirit of the Constitution, it might not violate the letter of the document." |
So basically, Gonzales is getting blame for being tough on corrupt members of Congress?
Why doesn't the article just stick to the salient points of Gonzales' complete disregard of Congressional subpeona or his enablement of torture? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Leahy Rejects Bush Privilege Claim
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - A Senate chairman acknowledged explicitly on Thursday that President Bush was not involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter and therefore ruled illegal the president's executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff, John Bolten, and former adviser Karl "turd blossom" Rove.
CONT'D ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_go_co/senate_prosecutors
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