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What A REAL Politicized Justice Department Looks Like
Remember when the left was constantly howling about Bush politicizing the Justice Department? Bush exercised his constitutional authority to fire U.S. Attorney’s and the left acted as if he had committed high treason.
Ironically, it’s the Obama administration that has ended up politicizing the Justice Department.
This from NRO:
Never a dull moment with the Justice Department of Eric Holder, aka "the right man at the right time to protect our citizens in the critical years ahead."
In fact, it would be more accurate to say he’s the right man at the right time to protect our non-citizens in the critical years ahead. Unbelievably (or, perhaps, entirely too believably), Holder has told Georgia that it may no longer verify identification in order to ensure that voting is done only by citizens eligible to vote.
That outrage combined with the bizarre dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the Black Panther’s, and you begin to see the leftist politics at work here.
Holder is an unethical far-left cretin who shouldn’t be allowed to practice law in any capacity much less serve in government.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Eric Holder is the most dangerous Attorney General in American history. If the republicans were going to filibuster an Obama nominee it should have been Eric Holder.
-Chris Jones
Case Dismissed Against 3 Racist Black Panthers
This from The Washington Times:
Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.
The incident – which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube – had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.
This was an open and shut case of racism and voter intimidation that was caught on video, but the Obama Justice Department chose to dismiss it — purely coincidental I’m sure.
Here’s what a prominent 1960s civil rights activist said about the incident:
Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.
This goes right along with the far left thinking that currently permeates The White House and most of the government.
The same people who spent a lifetime fighting racial discrimination against blacks, now suddenly don’t worry about it too much when it’s reversed. Racist blacks can say anything and do anything, without anyone saying a word about it.
Ironically, members of the so-called New Black Panther Party were on National Geographic a couple of months back smearing Barack Obama, saying he was a tool of the white devil, etc.
These black racists are no different than Neo-Nazi skin head groups or any other hate groups. Yet, somehow the far-left still feels a kind of kinship with these fools.
I don’t dispute the legitimate need for groups like the Panthers back in the 1960s, but this new group is nothing like the original and is totally uncalled for today.
The Eric Holder DOJ will no doubt continue this kind of one-sided justice just as Sonia Sotomayor did with the white firefighters who were denied promotions because they were white.
Everyone in America should be subject to the same rules regardless of skin color or ethnicity.
-Chris Jones
Witch Hunt: Mukasey Orders Criminal Probe Over CIA Tapes
Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed an outside prosecutor Wednesday to lead a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes.
“The Department’s National Security Division has recommended, and I have concluded, that there is a basis for initiating a criminal investigation of this matter, and I have taken steps to begin that investigation,” Mukasey said in a statement released Wednesday.
Mukasey named John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to oversee the case. Durham has a reputation as one of the nation’s most relentless prosecutors. He served as an outside prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the FBI’s use of mob informants in Boston and helped send several Connecticut public officials to prison.
What this entire episode represents is yet another example of the CIA’s inability to keep a secret. The concept of “State Secrets” obviously died along with the cold war.
The decision to tape any interrogation of Al-Qaeda suspects especially any enhanced interrogations was probably the most horrible idea ever conceived. A tape like that is the equivalent of a loose nuke in political terms and should never have been made.
Now of course this whole thing is going to play out like a textbook, and someone is gonna have to be thrown under the bus. I suspect the sacrificial lamb at the CIA already knows who he or she is and is just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Mukasey has to prove to Congress that he’s running a different kind of Justice Department than Gonzales, so he’s obligated to hang someone out to dry.
The larger and more troubling question than anything goes back to the intelligence community’s inability to keep a secret. Leaking State Secrets has become business as usual and the leaker or leakers are never caught and never prosecuted.
I don’t care if the CIA destroyed one tape or a thousand tapes, or if they torture terrorists, or if they send terrorists to be tortured by someone else. What I do care about is why I know about any of it?
Contrary to what the NY Times thinks, I don’t need to know about NSA wiretapping, tape destruction, waterboarding, secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, torture, or any of the rest of it.
I want the CIA to do whatever they deem necessary to prevent any future attacks. I don’t care how they do it, or where they do it as long as it gets done.
We should not know as much as we do, because everything we now know our enemies now know. If leakers were sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, I’m betting the vast majority of leaks would dry up overnight.
Who in the hell is ever gonna want to join the CIA or NSA, DIA, if they run the risk of being prosecuted for doing their job if a political scapegoat is needed?
Americans need to decide if gathering intelligence and conducting clandestine operations is something that’s important to our National Security. If we don’t believe intelligence is important then let’s just close down the CIA and other agencies.
If we do think that gathering intelligence is indeed vital to our national security, then we should just shut-up and let the CIA do their job. That means not asking how information was obtained, where it was obtained, or under what conditions.
Playing “gotcha” with America’s most important intelligence agency during a time of war is despicable, disgraceful, and outrageous.
Mukasey Sworn In As Nation’s 81st Attorney General
Former federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey was sworn in as the nation’s 81st attorney general today.
President Bush, welcoming Mukasey to the Cabinet, called him “the right man” to confront the challenges at the department, which has been demoralized by a scandal in which eight U.S. attorneys were fired, provoking allegations from Democrats that they were purged for failing to adhere to a Republican agenda on prosecutions.
The ceremony, in the Great Hall at the Justice Department, came before an audience of employees and two former attorneys general — Richard L. Thornburgh and John Ashcroft.
There has been a recent exodus of top-level employees from the department. Bush said he would name their replacements Thursday “so America has the strongest … national security team in place.”
Bush thanked former Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales, his longtime political ally and a former Texas Supreme Court justice.
“Al Gonzales worked tirelessly,” said Bush, who previously has complained that Gonzales’ “good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons.” Bush today said that he was grateful for the former attorney general’s service, prompting robust applause from Justice Department employees.
I think Mukasey’s first act as Attorney General should be to repeatedly waterboard terror suspects on the steps of the capital just to make Democrats cry.
-Chris Jones
Senate Committee Approves Mukasey Nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as Attorney General, despite opposition from most of the committee’s cowardly Democrats over Mr. Mukasey’s refusal to label an interrogation technique used by CIA as torture.
The vote, 11 to 8, with two Democrats joining all of the committee’s Republicans in supporting Mr. Mukasey, all but assured him of final confirmation by the full Senate. The Senate’s Democratic leaders are expected to schedule a vote by next week.
The nomination of Mr. Mukasey was almost derailed by his refusal at his confirmation hearings to define as torture the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and is reported to have been used by the Central Intelligence Agency on a handful of Qaeda leaders since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Democrats are not capable of doing what it takes to protect America and win the war on terror. They’re wimps who are more interested in coddling our enemies than making them talk.
-Chris Jones
John Aschcroft Talks Telecom Immunity in Op-Ed
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has a very good Op-Ed in the NY Times today about immunity for telecom companies that cooperated on the War on Terror.
The National Security Agency asked the various telecommunications companies in the U.S. for assistance in listening to terrorist phone calls. The Justice Department sent each company a letter assuring them that it would be totally legal for them to cooperate and they need not fear legal reprisals should the programs ever become public.
Of course as with everything the program did become public. Now Democrats want angry, left wing customers of the telecom companies to have the right to sue for hundreds of millions of dollars for invasion of privacy.
The ultimate goal of the Democrats is not for customers to win big money, but to have the details of our intelligence programs exposed in open court.
This will serve to make President Bush look bad, and weaken our National Security which just happens to be the two most important things to Democrats.
-Chris Jones
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