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	<title>Comments on: Waxman, Fitzgerald, and Mukasey</title>
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		<title>By: SparklestheIguana</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85349</link>
		<dc:creator>SparklestheIguana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wow. pat threw Mukasey under the bus. Did’t leave Mike any cover at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There must have been SOME INTERSTING DISCUSSIONS between the two of them. Pat had a very log trial in fornt of Mukasey and AFAIK, they got along well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, this must have put a huge chunk of pressure on Pat. It must have been hard to do the right thing. I’m glad he did.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Really?  You think they had discussions?  Would that even be proper?  I’m doubting there were discussions, but I have nothing solid to base that on.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Wow. pat threw Mukasey under the bus. Did’t leave Mike any cover at all.</p>
<p>There must have been SOME INTERSTING DISCUSSIONS between the two of them. Pat had a very log trial in fornt of Mukasey and AFAIK, they got along well.</p>
<p>So, this must have put a huge chunk of pressure on Pat. It must have been hard to do the right thing. I’m glad he did.</p>
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<p>Really?  You think they had discussions?  Would that even be proper?  I’m doubting there were discussions, but I have nothing solid to base that on.</p>
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		<title>By: PetePierce</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85101</link>
		<dc:creator>PetePierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Fitzgerald  could have put Bush and Cheney before the Grand Jury and he balked at doing so.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fitzgerald  could have put Bush and Cheney before the Grand Jury and he balked at doing so.</p>
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		<title>By: emptywheel</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85041</link>
		<dc:creator>emptywheel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Now you sound like LHP!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now you sound like LHP!!</p>
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		<title>By: PetePierce</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85037</link>
		<dc:creator>PetePierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040604.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Serious Implications Of President Bush’s Hiring A Personal Outside Counsel For The Valerie Plame Investigation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/BushCheneyIndicted.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bush and Cheney Indicted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<p><strong><br /><a href="http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/BushCheneyIndicted.htm" rel="nofollow">Bush and Cheney Indicted</a></strong></p>
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		<title>By: PetePierce</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85031</link>
		<dc:creator>PetePierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Executive Branch 1000,000 Legislative Branch Zero Judicial Branch Zero&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can all edit a book “The Threatening Feckless Letters of Waxman and Conyers That Didn’t Amount to Jack.” &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bush &lt;em&gt;consiligliere&lt;/em&gt; like Material Witness Mukasey, a contempt citation from Waxman or Congress is worn like a trophy.  That’s because it goes no where, and no one ever has the cagones to use &lt;strong&gt;inherent contempt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And why did Pat the Fitzie allow Bush and Cheney to avoid the grand jury?  Why couldn’t their fat asses been hauled before it?  What was Fitz ‘fraid of?  And again having seen everything, why doesn’t Fitz finish the job?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Waxman can huff and puff and huff and puff . Ain’t gonna budge Mukasey. Ain’t gonna budge Fitz to finish the job. Ain’t nothin’ gonna happen to anyone who is or has been at the top in this administration.  Some of the middle feeders will get trash detail at a federal prison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He’s threatening and bullshitting and Waxman continues to be the little engine that couldn’t. If he and his feckless committee had any balls he would have arrested Mukasey already using inherent contempt powers.  I watched Wasserman-Shultz (she of the masters in political science) flounder around as she realized on camera that there isn’t a damn thing they have the balls to do about Rove or Mukasey.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And as to people who say “screw Congress I’m not showing up” as Rove has said about Thursday, until someone transplants a pair of balls on Conyers, this will just drag on in the D.C. Circuit where nothing helpful will happen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obama is either naive or pretending to be naive thinking an Inspector General ever accomplishes a damn thing.  Reports come and go, the MSM superficially reports them and clucks and nothing much happens.  It takes organizations like CREW to go after scum like Esther Slater McDonald and Michael Elston.  The IG didn’t do jack to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/crew_files_bar_complaints_agai.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CREW Files Bar Complaints Against Former DOJ Officials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Executive Branch 1000,000 Legislative Branch Zero Judicial Branch Zero</strong></p>
<p>We can all edit a book “The Threatening Feckless Letters of Waxman and Conyers That Didn’t Amount to Jack.” </p>
<p>For the Bush <em>consiligliere</em> like Material Witness Mukasey, a contempt citation from Waxman or Congress is worn like a trophy.  That’s because it goes no where, and no one ever has the cagones to use <strong>inherent contempt.</strong></p>
<p><em>And why did Pat the Fitzie allow Bush and Cheney to avoid the grand jury?  Why couldn’t their fat asses been hauled before it?  What was Fitz ‘fraid of?  And again having seen everything, why doesn’t Fitz finish the job?</em></p>
<p>Waxman can huff and puff and huff and puff . Ain’t gonna budge Mukasey. Ain’t gonna budge Fitz to finish the job. Ain’t nothin’ gonna happen to anyone who is or has been at the top in this administration.  Some of the middle feeders will get trash detail at a federal prison.</p>
<p>He’s threatening and bullshitting and Waxman continues to be the little engine that couldn’t. If he and his feckless committee had any balls he would have arrested Mukasey already using inherent contempt powers.  I watched Wasserman-Shultz (she of the masters in political science) flounder around as she realized on camera that there isn’t a damn thing they have the balls to do about Rove or Mukasey.</p>
<p>And as to people who say “screw Congress I’m not showing up” as Rove has said about Thursday, until someone transplants a pair of balls on Conyers, this will just drag on in the D.C. Circuit where nothing helpful will happen.</p>
<p>Obama is either naive or pretending to be naive thinking an Inspector General ever accomplishes a damn thing.  Reports come and go, the MSM superficially reports them and clucks and nothing much happens.  It takes organizations like CREW to go after scum like Esther Slater McDonald and Michael Elston.  The IG didn’t do jack to them.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/crew_files_bar_complaints_agai.php" rel="nofollow">CREW Files Bar Complaints Against Former DOJ Officials</a></strong></p>
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		<title>By: masaccio</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85030</link>
		<dc:creator>masaccio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And you won’t get any argument from me on our worthless congress.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And you won’t get any argument from me on our worthless congress.</p>
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		<title>By: bmaz</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85027</link>
		<dc:creator>bmaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Oh, I was referring to Congress, not Fitzgerald.  You will get no argument from me as to Fitzgerald.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I was referring to Congress, not Fitzgerald.  You will get no argument from me as to Fitzgerald.</p>
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		<title>By: masaccio</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85025</link>
		<dc:creator>masaccio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;bmaz, Fitzgerald can’t do it by himself. He needed others to act. It looks to me like he has done everything he could do within his power to tell others to go ask.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bmaz, Fitzgerald can’t do it by himself. He needed others to act. It looks to me like he has done everything he could do within his power to tell others to go ask.</p>
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		<title>By: masaccio</title>
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		<dc:creator>masaccio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I see that argument, but much of what went on in that interview wasn’t about national security, and whatever there was could be redacted for public consumption.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see that argument, but much of what went on in that interview wasn’t about national security, and whatever there was could be redacted for public consumption.</p>
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		<title>By: bmaz</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/waxman-fitzgerald-and-mukasey/comment-page-1/#comment-85021</link>
		<dc:creator>bmaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Maybe, but it has been a marathon of infinite duration and distance with no, or little, apparent ground covered.  I fully understand building a case, and sometimes taking the time to set the adversary up for a complex backdoor play etc., but this has been inane.  There are nine million different ways Congress could have taken the prerogative and gone after the malefactors, but they have diddled their time and self respect away.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe, but it has been a marathon of infinite duration and distance with no, or little, apparent ground covered.  I fully understand building a case, and sometimes taking the time to set the adversary up for a complex backdoor play etc., but this has been inane.  There are nine million different ways Congress could have taken the prerogative and gone after the malefactors, but they have diddled their time and self respect away.</p>
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