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Posted on 02/24/2010 8:03:43 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 EDITORIAL: Does Justice lack ethics?
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The rot at the Department of Justice grows more evident every day. Already being hit for botched decisions about terrorist trials and for dropping a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, the department is taking another huge blow.
On Friday, Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis excoriated the department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for an attempted railroad job against two George W. Bush administration appointees who crafted rules for interrogating captured terrorists.
The 69-page memorandum by Mr. Margolis makes the ethics of OPR look worse than that of the two lawyers OPR targeted for sanction. It makes Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s management of OPR look particularly dishonest. And it is a reminder that the initial responses to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks involved difficult legal and policy decisions on which honest people could differ. It's inappropriate and counterproductive to try to criminalize those honest disagreements.
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Then, when criticized for this failure to adjudge the Bush attorneys by any known standards of ethics, OPR in its final report applied two new sets of ethical standards that "raise* several [other] concerns. First and foremost, neither of them existed at the time."
In short, OPR charged the lawyers retroactively with breaking rules that had yet to be invented. Soviet show trials could hardly be more brazen. It was under new OPR chief Mary Patrice Brown that the office tried that last dirty trick.
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The Black Panther case and this "torture memo" investigation both yell out for appointment of a special counsel. Otherwise, the American people will wonder if justice indeed reigns at Justice.
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Cuts loose violent thugs who intimidate voters and seeks to put on trial a terrorist who committed war crimes against thousands of civilians, but treat it as a normal crime. AFTER he's plead guilty!
Does Justice (Dept.) lack ethics?
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Bear? Poop? Woods?
There’s a rhetorical question if I ever heard one.
...glad the Times had the guts to say this in print.
Ladies and gentlemen ... welcome to the wonderful world of Washington DC’s legal system where the wolves in fact DO guard the henhouse. It stinks to high heaven.
When ‘ethics’ comes down to not being in synch with the prosecutors, when rules are made as they go along, and when the taxpayer has to pick up the tab, it has to be investigated.
God bless Mr. Margolis. I hope he watches his back.
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