Posted on 11/02/2009 4:44:14 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
While the most transparent administration in history continues to stonewall Congress on its legal theories for supporting a would-be dictator in Honduras, dismissing a civil-rights case against nightstick-wielding Black Panthers, and flouting the plain language of the Constitution on the D.C. Voting Rights Bill, it’s time once again to check in on the president’s equally laughable commitment to disinfect the Justice Department, removing all traces of political taint.
When it was Scooter Libby in the crosshairs, Democrats were awfully sanctimonious about the grave felony of lying to the FBI. (snip)
Meet Stephanie Villafuerte. She is a former prosecutor from Denver, where she was chief deputy to Bill Ritter when he was district attorney. In 2006, when Ritter successfully ran for governor of Colorado, she was one of his top aides.
During the heated campaign, Ritter was rocked by the revelation that, while he was DA, his office had given lenient treatment to hundreds of illegal aliens. They were permitted to plead guilty to crimes far less serious than the ones they actually committed, enabling them to avoid deportation. The illegals included a heroin dealer who — thanks to a sweetheart plea deal — was released and went on to commit a sexual assault in California.
That alien’s name is Carlos Estrada-Medina. That was problematic because, when Ritter’s office had dealt with him on the drug case, he had used the alias “Walter Ramo.” When the Republican running against Ritter ran an ad about the case, Villafuerte, the veteran prosecutor, realized that it would only have been possible for Ritter’s opponent to confirm that “Ramo” was Estrada-Medina if someone had accessed the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database. It is a federal crime to access the NCIC system for purposes unrelated to law enforcement, such as political campaigns. (snip)
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