Palace Revolt ("They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power...")

Newsweek ^ | 1/29/05 | By Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas

[Brian Mosely]

Feb. 6, 2006 issue - James Comey, a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart, resigned as deputy attorney general in the summer of 2005. The press and public hardly noticed. Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, contained all the predictable, if heartfelt, appreciations. But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. Comey thanked "people who came to my office, or my home, or called my cell phone late at night, to quietly tell me when I was about to make a mistake; they were the people committed to getting it right—and to doing the right thing—whatever the price. These people," said Comey, "know who they are. Some of them did pay a price for their commitment to right, but they wouldn't have it any other way."

One of those people—a former assistant attorney general named Jack Goldsmith—was absent from the festivities and did not, for many months, hear Comey's grateful praise. In the summer of 2004, Goldsmith, 43, had left his post in George W. Bush's Washington to become a professor at Harvard Law School. Stocky, rumpled, genial, though possessing an enormous intellect, Goldsmith is known for his lack of pretense; he rarely talks about his time in government. In liberal Cambridge, Mass., he was at first snubbed in the community and mocked as an atrocity-abetting war criminal by his more knee-jerk colleagues. ICY WELCOME FOR NEW LAW PROF, headlined The Harvard Crimson.

[RedMonqey]

" ...a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart"

"Stocky, rumpled, genial, though possessing an enormous intellect"


"their intrepid boss "

"quietly dramatic profile in courage "

Even notice the shining adjectives and adverbs used by ythe MSM whenever "loyal conservatives" turn on their party or boss, George.

Unbiased media? Yeah Riiiiight!

[jimtorr]

Jack Goldsmith was hired by Harvard Law School. Evidence enough that he is no "loyal consverative".

James Comey resigned six months ago. Why is Newsweak just now hyping him? Has he started to run off at the mouth, or something?

I refuse to wade through the morass at PMSNBC to find out.

[MizSterious]

I suspect a book is on the way. Maybe Oprah will feature it, and it will be just as true as some of her others. ;)

[libstripper]

Newspeak seems to think our hired help ought to set policy for the Justice Department instead of what the duly elected President, the boss we elected to supervise and discipline the hired help properly orders them to do. This article shows the incredible arrogance and gall of a bunch of unelected bureaucrats who just can't get over the idea of the elected President lawfully giving them orders they don't like. Having lost every election since 2000 they and their soul brothers at State and the CIA are now trying to pull a coup against President Bush in the middle of a war for very existence. It's treason.

[originalbuckeye]

I noticed this type of semantics during the Whitewater investigation. The LA Times credited Clinton's lawyers with 'sophisticated maneuverings' but damned the Starr people for using 'desperate tactics'. This was the first time I noticed the blatant double-standard. This was also when I cancelled my subscription to the LA Times.

[penowa]

I have to agree with your summary of the article. It seems that a former Democrat congress thought they chopped the power of the executive branch down to manageable size in their estimation. Any Democrat president who tries to push beyond the boundaries set by them is ignored by the press and congress. Any Republican president will find himself in a battle with the Democrats and his own executive bureaucracy, and the press will make it into a public event in an attempt to undercut him.

I thought this quote from Flanigan said it all in regard to Addington's "transgressions."

But Addington "usually had the facts, the law and the precedents on his side," says Flanigan.

[RedMonqey]

Good example. Sharp eye, good ears.

[Recovering_Democrat]

People leave the government and are "paying the price"?? LOL. What a joke.

Tell ya what, NewsWEAK, why don't you drop the friggin' pretense of being an "objective" news source and just begin emblazoning the masthead of your slickpaper rag with a DNC logo?

[longtermmemmory]

IOW he was a democrat careerist who could not ever hope to seek a promotion in the future so he punted.

[Howlin]

Dan Abrams is covering this today on his show.

[FreedomPoster]

Already seeing Lefties posting links to this on a neutral forum. Surprise, surprise.