Posted on 12/27/2006 6:48:29 AM PST by Cplus
Its possible, but you would think something like that would have been used by now. God only knows the rotten stuff these people gather on each other. Anymore, even if something isn't true, a person is gulty unless he can prove it isn't so. It would be nice to see the Justice Dept. do something about this stuff, but with Gonzales, nothing ever happens.
Of course, some might want a hood...
If the Bush administration had cleaned house of all the Hillary appointments made in the Justice Dept. we wouldn't be having these leaks and missing files. Same for the State Dept., a known bastion of far-left saboteurs and pot-stirrers.
Did you know that when Clinton took office, he fired every lawyer in the justice department and replaced them with his own corrupt scum? This was completely unprecedented. (The scumbag "mainstream" socialist Democrat newsrooms, of course, made little of it. Imagine if that was a Republican President who did that, LMAO!)
I think that Bush wanted to "set a new tone of bipartisanship", etc., and left most of the corrupt Clinton scum right where they were in both Justice and State.
I remember a couple of months after Bush took office there was some kind of routine, "get acquainted" State Department meeting and who walks in and sits down but Jamie Gorelick. According to the story, everybody clammed up and whispered to each other, "What is she doing here?" Well, it turned out that she was still employed by the State Department - - Bush and Company had left her there. (Although she did leave soon after.)
He did not fire "every lawyer in the Justice Department." He fired all of the federal district attorneys who had been appointed by President Bush. That is NOT "all the lawyers in the Justice Department."
we have to start playing hardball and face reality - the party in power has to be able to use the DOJ (legally) to pursue those that politically oppose them, and who would use their position in government (illegally) to continue the political fight, even when they lose at the ballot box.
in the meantime, the Dem moles inside DOJ went after Curt Weldon, and even went after Jeanine Pirro. which Dems are "our guys" going after?
It was unprecedented.
Furthermore, Jamie Gorelick was only left in place until her replacement could be sworn in. If you will remember, the Senate was very slow to do the confirmations, which was NOT the fault of the President.
yes, but those "other lawyers" at DOJ - work for the US attorneys. that's how you control the moles in the ranks, you make political appointments of their bosses, so you can control them.
c'mon miss marple, I know you are politically saavy, you know the game.
Yes, firing all of the prosecutors WAS unprecedented. But Clinton still had plenty of lawyers in Justice that he did NOT fire. That is what I am talking about.
By the way, Clinton fired all 93 U.S. Attorneys.
You are correct. I got overzealous when I used the phrase, "every lawyer in the justice department". Clinton only fired every lawyer that mattered.
Why is this so hard for people to understand? The President has to abide by the law. Clinton did so although he broke tradition; he was legally entitled to fire all of those prosecutors...its just that no one had ever done it at the very beginning of an administration in one fell swoop. President Bush followed tradition and gradually replaced them as their cases were finished.
The 93 district attorneys are the ones I am talking about!!!
Absolutely...and the Trillion Dollar 'Ship of State' we're aboard needs to start dropping appropriate 'depth charges' to end such low-budget Constitutional vandalism...
Appropriate would include the very Constitutional consequences for spying and treason.
All 93 were appointed by GHW Bush?
i couldn't care less about the foia... it's the ADMITTED amount of files MISSING because of absolutely NO document control that bothers me. "There is no physical slip of paper on the shelf which indicates that the file has been charged out to a particular FBI employee, so therefore there is no way of knowing where the file may actually be,"
that is a TOTALLY unacceptable system.
what if it's people under investigation that had the files disappeared??? who's to know since there NO SIGN OUT procedure for them!!!
they can't be fired, correct.
but they can be controlled, by appointing their bosses.
let's take a tiny case in point - the Jeanine Pirro case. what the hell is DOJ doing wiretapping and conducting an investigation on a woman who wants to find out whether her husband is having an affair, and wants to monitor her own phone to get information about his infidelity? what US attorney approved that crap?
I'll tell you the answer - remember who Pirro was supposed to run against for the Senate in NY, and you'll have your answer as to why that was done. I want to know - who approved it? on the day that story broke, Alberto Gonzales should have fired the US attorney who approved that partisan hit job. the same goes for Curt Weldon's daughter, another hit job.
its almost as if DOJ is run by someone else - we win elections, elect a two term president - and the opposition party controls DOJ.
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