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lawyers' offices with no warrant; Bushwhack "data-miners" illegally surveilling all manner of personal/financial records of American citizens--and guess what? finding Elliot Spitzer's stupid credit card payment to a prostitute, Spitzer who was going to roast the New York banking and financial criminals before their Financial 9/11 hit a trillion dollars of taxpayer paid dirt; Bushwhack spies and toady lawyers figuring out ways to use illegal spying in legal cases. I have no doubt that Bushwhacks were doing all this and far, far, FAR worse. What is remarkable about these readings--the Democracy Now interview and emptywheel's legal spiderwebs--is that some of these points may become discoveries in legal cases, and turning points in those cases, but--more importantly--establish Bushwhack legal culpability for a few of their many crimes.
I appreciate the legal work being done on this matter--to get that far. I know how hard legal work can be, in a system in which justice and truth seem very remote, indeed. And I do cheer the victims on, especially. They have been harmed and I'm sure they have lived with fear and terror, being targeted by the worst terrorist organization on earth: the Bush Junta.
But...but, but, but...this all seems are bit closeted from the real world of raw fascist corporate power in which it seems obvious to me that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and a few select "made men" among their chief operatives have been immunized not just from impeachment, back when they were still in the White House, but from all future prosecution. They are not going to be prosecuted in this country. Period. I think that is just very, very, very clear, from all visible behavior of everyone involved, over several years' time--from 2006, basically--the behavior of the perps themselves, of Congressional leaders, of Congressional committee chairs, of Senate leaders, of Senate committee chairs, of virtually all Democratic presidential candidates, of Patrick Fitzgerald, of Obama and his team, of Leon Panetta, you name it. All signals say no prosecution of the principles and their "made men." Hell, Leon Panetta just invited Rove to a debate about the new administration at his Monterey policy institute! Bush is off giving $250,000 farts and unintelligle mumblings to highly select groups of have's in Europe. They are all going to walk away. Their immunity is blatantly obvious. And, since Bush issued no pardons, who immunized them?
That is the question. People can pick at these issues all they want in court proceedings and Congressional hearings testimony, or have a field day with FOIA requests, and it isn't going to mean shit about accountability for torture, for massive domestic spying, for horrendous illegal war, for outing CIA agents, for grand theft on an unimaginable scale, for using the Dept. of Justice and all agencies of government for political vendettas and false prosecutions, for stolen elections, for destroying the USA in every conceivable way--politically, economically, morally--nor for all that we don't know, which I believe is mind-bogglingly bad and evil, beyond even any of the above.
They are walking away. And we need to know who engineered it and why. And until we know that, we can't even pretend to be a democracy, or to have a justice system, or a Constitution.
I have my notions of who and why, and even when. But I'm not going to repeat it here. I've posted it in comments many times, elsewhere at DU. I think it's better for people to ask themselves this question, rather than for me to speculate. Why are they walking away from all this crimes, and who arranged it?
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