Insularity.

Regarding Chicago, I’d been waiting with bated breath to see which enclave, finding itself unexpectedly thrust into [inter!]national view, [and then the ride showed up; 4 hours later …] would be the first to learn how out of the mainstream they were. Blago and crew might not be the first, but they’re certainly the loudest to date.

He’s been under investigation for over four years, and just the day before he was arrested he was bragging that if anyone wanted to listen to his phone calls go ahead – he didn’t have anything to hide.

Very next day – Fitz is playing tapes of his phone calls. Ha!

I think I had something else in mind though, something like this

Well, that was short and feeble.

From the time of the Keith case, and with the benefit of FISA and the Church commission we’ve now “progressed” to where the illegal surveillance info will be hidden, lied about, asserted as being “legalized” by Congress, etc. and the DOJ will be re-writing the outcome of the Keith case – at least, that’s a probability guess on my part.

Cleaned and pressed. How would you like your starch maam?

On the wiretapping front, I have to kind of think that, while Fitzgerald got warrants and “his” surveillance was presumptively legal (until defense counsel gets a shot at the warrants) Blago, along with a cast of thousands and thousands, was ALSO the subject of unconstitutional wiretapping as well. Remember the Obama Seal of Approval program?

Back in the day (which isn’t this day) it was the illegal wiretaps of the White Panthers – wiretaps that supposedly the lawyers handling the criminal case against them didn’t even know anything about when they filed charges; wiretaps that were supposedly just for “national security” purposes; and wiretaps that were only “targeting” the other part of the calls – those were the taps at issue in the Keith case and that ended up cratering the whole case.

Of course, here the DOJ won’t be coughing up the illegal taps like it did when Judge Keith made his orders. This DOJ has figured out it doesn’t have to do anything but lie to the courts and destroy evidence and the courts are pretty acquiescent. From the time of the Keith case, and with the benefit of FISA and the Church commission we’ve now “progressed” to where the illegal surveillance info will be hidden, lied about, asserted as being “legalized” by Congress, etc. and the DOJ will be re-writing the outcome of the Keith case – at least, that’s a probability guess on my part. With so many thousands the subject of illegal surveillance, how would you follow the Keith precedents and ever be able to convice anyone of anything?

Kipling? He’s quoting Kipling?

Who knew Kipling used the letters U, C and K so much?

Did it go something like…

Shere Khan: Bravo, Bravo. An extraordinary performance. And thank you for entertaining my victim