[freekitty]

Sounds like the FBI is still operating under Clinton. Hey guys, we're in a different era now.

[holden]

I know some of those FBI guys. It's in their jeans genes to be swayed by the winds of power, influence and affluence. They're happy to stick it to punks, irrespective of any so-called "facts", just as Clinton set the pace for considered his critics smearably inferior.

Clinton didn't make 'em, he appointed the political hack prosecutors (remember from Day One at the DOJ?) and people like Kallstrom and Hall, those who sniffed out their own kind from lower ranks and promoted them. The common element among these is a derived pleasure (benefit) derived from doing things for their political friends and benefactors.

There's no quick rehabilitation for these guys. A similarly effective DOJ housecleaning that wasn't going to raise a media furor (for a Republican) takes time. I think Dubya can afford (more aggressively now) to spend some of his newfound political capital reserves (war successes and now Ashcroft v. Leaky) to hasten the firings at the DOJ/FBI and even CIA.

HF