Scanning through web pages yesterday I was struck by a photo in The New York Times accompanying a story about how Bush continues to express confidence in Alberto Gonzales. (Okay… that’s not the actual photo.) This was the day after, Monica Goodling, a key member of his staff, a lawyer, and a former opposition researcher for the RNC testified before Congress about how she “may have taken inappropriate political considerations into account on some occasions.” When pressed by Representative Bobby Scott of Virginia, Goodling admitted that she had “crossed the line of civil service rules.” Scott made it pretty clear to her that she broke the laws, not the “rules.”
This she admitted after she invoked the Fifth Amendment during her first appearance and was then granted immunity by Committee Chairman John Conyers. So she gets away with her lawbreaking. What about her bosses?
Mr. Bush noted that the Justice Department is conducting its own internal investigation of possible improprieties related to the dismissals of United States attorneys last year. “This will be an exhaustive investigation,” he said. “And if there’s wrongdoing, it will be taken care of.”
But the problem with that is that there is NEVER any wrongdoing!
It may be obvious to you and it may be obvious to me, but if you are part of the Bush Administration? … uh, not so obvious…
- Leak the name of a covert CIA? No wrongdoing there…
- Torture prisoners? That’s not wrong, it’s how we protect America from Evildoers. Most of the current crop of R’s vying to replace Bush’s in 2008 think that using torture, er… I mean “enhanced interrogation techniques” is okay too.
- Extradite prisoners to countries that torture people? That’s not wrong… that’s a good thing… It’s like outsourcing. You inflict twice the pain you could at Guantanamo for the same price, and nobody really knows about it.
- Hold American citizens prisoner without charging them with a crime? What? Is that against the law?
- Tap phones and intercept emails of American citizens without a warrant? What? What? You think that’s wrong? Well you must love the terrorists you evildoer.
So as in all the above circumstances where the Administration investigated itself, it will find that nobody did anything wrong when they fired eight federal prosecutors.
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