Comments on: Bush Officials Compromised Renzi Investigation for Political Gain

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:33:40 +0000

Well, it looks incredibly sinister.
And just to clarify: the BushCheneyBots screwed the FBI. That was the same FBI that had ensured they would not be present for torture interrogations, who then got screwed by someone inside DoJ-WH-OVP on a case involving money laundering, fraud, land swaps on a deal related to NSA surveillance setups?

The same FBI that was being lied to by K-k-k-karl Rove and Scooter Libby?

Does this set of facts you’ve laid out sound an awful lot like the Mafia screwing over the cops by controlling the government? It sure looks that way to moi.

And if that AZ NSA surveillance work was so wonderful, then how the f*ck is it that they missed billions in AIG credit default swaps? How is it that they missed mortgage fraud on a massive scale, what with all those loans and title agreements floating around on LANs and the Internet? How is it that all that surveillance missed all those billions of dollars being siphoned out of the US economy into tax havens and overseas accounts?

Oh, right… Renzi was on the Finance and Intel Committees… silly me.

Come to think of it, this really underscores what the FBI (and the rest of us) must be up against.

This post is superb and important, but dreadful for my blood pressure. This is one of those times that I suspect when Nancy Pelosi said, “You don’t know the half of it”, what she actually meant was, “You can’t even imagine how deep the shit we’re in actually is, people — and even the FBI can’t dig through it all.”

If the Dems had lost the 2006 federal elections, I suspect that we’d be living in a surveillance state dictatorship at this point. But I also remember that it was Josh Marshall at TPM, using emails from his readers all around the US, who put all the pieces together and showed that there WAS a nationwide pattern of DoJ firings — which until that point, no one outside the WH and DoJ had been able to figure out. Thank God for smart bloggers, or we’d be under the heel of a jackboot by now.

By: texasaggie

texasaggie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:53:46 +0000

Something to consider is that if the DOJ talks about its investigation now, assuming there is one, then it accomplishes the same thing that the Bush politicos did, alert the quarry that it is being hunted.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:52:59 +0000

Well, this is pretty significant news though because it established politicization and compromise as an element of the USA Purgegate scandal. Now, we may all have supposed that for a long time, but having people on the inside starting to appear with some direct evidence, and in a case with as many threads as Renzi, is very important.

Earth shattering, maybe not, but critical yes.

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:47:06 +0000

As per usual bmaz, thanks very much for making this so accessible.

By: STTPinOhio

STTPinOhio — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:32:09 +0000

The bush administration compromised an investigation? No way! /s

That’s exactly where I’m at on this as well.

You know, “In other news, water is (wait for it…) wet!”

I mean, what is it gonna take?

Everyone who’s been paying attention knows these bastards were as crooked as a 3 dollar bill, and yet nothing.

By: nahant

nahant — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:31:38 +0000

I am still angry that the Bush Administration is not under more investigations. Still seems like the good old boy club. You would think that by now Holder has seen most of the secret files which must be brimming with Political motives for the laws were used to influence elections and other info of that sort.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:29:15 +0000

There are a whole heap of moving parts in this one if you filet it open. The ManTech bit is a key in the front door of the surveillance state Bush and Cheney set up. And that is just one angle. There are greasy McCain fingerprints likely in the background. There are CIA shadows lurking. And then there is the wrongful firing of Paul Charlton who was not just a good USA, but a superb one.

By: Blub

Blub — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:18:26 +0000

wouldn’t it be profoundly ironic if, after all of shrub’s high crimes with respect to the constitution, torture, lying our way into wars, etc, etc, his people finally start falling, not for these “big” issues but over good ole’ fashioned sleaze? My dream is that shrub goes to jail – for simple racketeering, corruption, campaign finance violations, and election fraud. No drama over ideology, no “I did what I had to do to save the country and protect the American people” nonsense. No terr’ist bogeyman. No ticking bomb. Just exposure and infamy as the evil, venal sleazebag he was.

By: tbsa

tbsa — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:17:20 +0000

The bush administration compromised an investigation? No way! /s

By: Kathryn in MA

Kathryn in MA — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:48:51 +0000

OT and Breaking - Chaconne won a scholarship to NetRoots Nation! Congratters!

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