TW: Due to financial crisis and day to day Presidential politics combined with Bush fatigue, stories like the Bush Administration abuse of the Justice Department have been lost in the shuffle. These issues should not be ignored. As I have said before, I believe historians will be shocked when the full depths of the abuses of the Bush/Cheney Administration come to light over the coming years.
From Robinson at WaPo:
" "Our [Justice Dept.] investigation found significant evidence that political partisan considerations were an important factor in the removal of several . . . U.S. attorneys."
...The Justice Department conducted as thorough an investigation as it could, and it concluded that there was evidence of White House political meddling...The investigators reported being stonewalled by the White House...The investigators reported being stonewalled by the White House...
The most egregious case, according to the report, was that of New Mexico U.S. attorney David Iglesias. The evidence showed that Iglesias was removed because of complaints from Republican Sen. Pete Domenici and other GOP officials and party activists who believed he was not being aggressive enough in pursuing certain voter fraud and public corruption cases -- by happenstance, cases against Democrats.
The people who have been running our government for the past eight years have nothing but contempt for government. They believe only in politics and ideology, in that order. First, win elections by any means necessary. Second, once in a position to act in the public good, govern with the ideological conviction that government is either irrelevant or harmful to the public interest. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092902663.html
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