Prosecutor Purge-Part Of Bush Admin's "Sordid History Of Waving THE BULLHORN Of 9/11" (NYT Edit)

[kpete]

Politics, Pure and Cynical
Editorial
Published: March 14, 2007

We wish we’d been surprised to learn that the White House was deeply involved in the politically motivated firing of eight United States attorneys, but the news had the unmistakable whiff of inevitability. This disaster is just part of the Bush administration’s sordid history of waving the bloody bullhorn of 9/11 for the basest of motives: the perpetuation of power for power’s sake.

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Mr. Gonzales, who has shown why he was such an awful choice for this job in the first place, should be called under oath to resolve the contradictions and inconsistencies in his story. Mr. Gonzales is willing to peddle almost any nonsense to the public (witness his astonishingly maladroit use of the Nixonian “mistakes were made” dodge yesterday). But lying to Congress under oath is another matter.

The Justice Department has been saying that it is committed to putting Senate-confirmed United States attorneys in every jurisdiction. But the newly released documents make it clear that the department was making an end run around the Senate — for baldly political reasons. Congress should broaden the investigation to determine whether any other prosecutors were forced out for not caving in to political pressure — or kept on because they did.

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If that sounds cynical, it is. It is also an accurate summary of the governing philosophy of this administration: What’s the point of having power if you don’t use it to get more power?

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/opinion/14wed1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[indepat]

1. Anyone who does not now believe the US Patriot Act was all about seizing total control and

punishing/ridding itself of political enemies, and not finding terrorists, is indeed a god-damned fool.