Let's out these vermin as the yellow liars that they are. Even if they'll walk away to Paraguay, maybe the names of Bush, Cheney, and Rove will go down in history with that of Benedict Arnold.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Justice Department Subpoenas Its Former Lawyers In Civil Rights Probe
August 6, 2008 12:27 PM

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed several former senior Justice Department attorneys for an investigation into the politicization of the Department's own Civil Rights Division, according to sources close to the investigation.

The extraordinary step by the Justice Department of subpoenaing attorneys once from within its own ranks was taken because several of them refused to voluntarily give interviews to the Department Inspector General, which has been conducting its own probe of the politicization of the Civil Rights Division, the same sources said.

The grand jury has been investigating allegations that a former senior Bush administration appointee in the Civil Rights Division, Bradley Schlozman, gave false or misleading testimony on a variety of topics to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sources close to the investigation say that the grand jury is also more broadly examining whether Schlozman and other Department officials violated civil service laws by screening Civil Rights attorneys for political affiliation while hiring them.

Investigators for the Inspector General have also asked whether Schlozman, while an interim U.S. attorney in Missouri, brought certain actions and even a voting fraud indictment for political ends, according to witnesses questioned by the investigators. But it is unclear whether the grand jury is going to hear testimony on that issue as well.

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The article goes on to tell who is being subpoenaed.

the smell of desperation...

Well, they'd have to, wouldn't they? But they language they're using is a league beyond the usual arrogant dismissals, as if they can barely be bothered with something so off-the-wall. No, this time - after McClellan did them some heavy damage with their own people - they're going all-out. It's "gutter journalism". It's "absurd".

In BushSpeak, that's tantamount to an admission that Suskind's right.

This is roughly the equivalent of this argument.

L: so I heard that when you are alone you play with barbie dolls!!!

R:What? No, That never happened...

L: ooooh....Why are you denying it so furiously, I must be right...the mor you deny, the closer I get!!!!

R: so your entire argument that I'm guilty unless I prove my innocence.... by proving I didn't do something you allege I have done...

L: impeach, impeach!!!!

I'll wait to see how this turns out...I'm just not holding my breath...McClellan's book already blew the lid off the whole administration...

There are a couple of ways this could go. First, whatever happens, Bush has gutted the Justice Department which means only shitty lawyers from tier four colleges are left to defend him. This is why Bush doesn't want Gitmo terrorists cases tried in real courts, because he got rid of so many good lawyers they would always lose.

Bush could keep a low profile until he gets out of office and then he just hi tails it out of the country, but I don't believe that will happen.

Probably, the Democrats don't want to do anything that would rally the American people behind Bush and also behind McCain. So I think they are just going to let it slide and then try to clean things up after Bush has left. Only the most ignorant still believe that Bush was good for this country.

Where are the investigative journalists who are supposed to be covering this? Where is the outrage? What has happened to our country? This is FAR worse than Watergate! Indeed, the state of our government is Nixon's favorite wet dream! We have a completely politicized justice department, an out-of-control executive branch that stonewalls every chance it gets, and a legislative branch that has been made impotent by the Conservative elitist agenda! This has gotten way out of hand, and our own party is acting as the enabler by not standing up and demanding that the media cover this scandal. This is by far the biggest story of the year, if not the decade, yet the story gets no airtime, and no one is talking about it. Have we become that lethargic and passive? Our government is failing us and we have nothing to say about it.

is now so high that i just got a rebate check from Shell Oil for all the Shell gasoline i've ever purchased.

"Obama - the judgment to be a big enough blowhard to have his campaign be considered 'wind powered'".

fact of yet another high crime and misdemeanor committed by this criminal administration that has absolutely nothing to worry about as long as the authoritarian Speaker continues to shit in the face of Americans dependent on this one singular person to show just a fraction of an ounce of decency, morals, ethics and judgement to give them a fraction of an ounce of justice.

Impeach Pelosi First!

...in response to the cherry-picking and disinformation posted by McCain = Bush:

Excerpts from Iraq Survey Group Final Report, Regime Strategic Intent, Key Findings:

"Saddam Husayn so dominated the Iraqi Regime that its strategic intent was his alone. He wanted to end sanctions while preserving the capability to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) when sanctions were lifted.

Saddam’s primary goal from 1991 to 2003 was to have UN sanctions lifted, while maintaining the security of the Regime. He sought to balance the need to cooperate with UN inspections—to gain support for lifting sanctions—with his intention to preserve Iraq’s intellectual capital for WMD with a minimum of foreign intrusiveness and loss of face. Indeed, this remained the goal to the end of the Regime, as the starting of any WMD program, conspicuous or otherwise, risked undoing the progress achieved in eroding sanctions and jeopardizing a political end to the embargo and international monitoring.

The introduction of the Oil-For-Food program (OFF) in late 1996 was a key turning point for the Regime. OFF rescued Baghdad’s economy from a terminal decline created by sanctions. The Regime quickly came to see that OFF could be corrupted to acquire foreign exchange both to further undermine sanctions and to provide the means to enhance dual-use infrastructure and potential WMD-related development.

By 2000-2001, Saddam had managed to mitigate many of the effects of sanctions and undermine their international support. Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime, both in terms of oil exports and the trade embargo, by the end of 1999.

Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq’s WMD capability—which was essentially destroyed in 1991—after sanctions were removed and Iraq’s economy stabilized, but probably with a different mix of capabilities to that which previously existed. Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability—in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks—but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities.

...and McCain=Bush goes down in ignominious defeat as a flaming ball of wreckage. For if we'd listened to the idiots on the left and not invaded Iraq, Saddam would've defeated the sanctions by around 2001, recreated his WMD stocks, and continued hosting, training, and equipping terrorists, many of whom were Al Qaeda affiliates.