Comments on: What Is Michael Mukasey Helping Dick Cheney to Cover Up?

By: JamesJoyce

JamesJoyce — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:33:58 +0000

Corporate T(r)eason, Executive Oil and the Iraq Oil Plot!

By: masaccio

masaccio — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:06:01 +0000

I think the best we can hope for is that an Obama administration will release documents in response to discovery and proper FOIA requests and maybe even issue a few reports of its own. We aren’t going to get any prosecutions and, and I don’t think we will get much in the way of directly hammering the evil-doers in this foul administration.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:03:15 +0000

In the Olden days (before Clinton), it was usually the President himself, usually with back up from the OLC. Clinton centralized in the hands of the WHCO. It’s certainly seems inappropriate coming from the Principal Deputy Attorney General for Legislative Affairs.

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:31:01 +0000

I’m saying something similar to WO. I think the appropriate response from DoJ was “We gathered the responsive materials together, here’s a list, and submitted them to WH counsel in case they wished to withhold some materials under an assertion of Executive Privilege. You should expect a response from WHC within a few days.”

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:22 +0000

Does the DoJ represent the Executive when issues of executive privilege arise? Shouldn’t that be the role of WH counsel?

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:13:53 +0000

It’s not possible to put the past behind us, only to bury it. But as Orwell observed, he who controls the “past” controls the present; he who controls the present, controls the future.

Progressives’ job is to keep more of that past alive, to correct the myth making and lies of those with anti-progressive agendas, so that it informs the present.

By: klynn

klynn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:05:58 +0000

If his “basic human ability to judge his own actions to honor the Constitution” is not “best” by the standards set forth by the signers, standards he understood when he took his oath (i.e. my ability), then his leadership is impaired in his functional ability is impaired and he must be removed from office.

“…to the best of my ability” can work to our advantage as well.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:59:10 +0000

Tragically, I think the overriding phrase there might be “… to the best of my ability…”.

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:48:36 +0000

Addington told congress that they are “irrelevant”

Chomsky tells us what many of us all ready know, but keep banging our heads against the wall anyway.

“Chomsky: US Public Irrelevant,”
http://www.informationclearing.....e20185.htm

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:25:51 +0000

Ew upstairs