The piece seems to me to be motivated by someone who either wants to wave Holder off an investigation or warn him that if he pursues high-level elected and appointed officials in the White House of OVP, that he be able to stick the prosecution well so there is no room for doubt that opens up a tit for tat political game.

Not impeaching Nixon and a number of his underlings and trying them led us to this sorry point. It opened the way to the tit-for-tat impeachment of Clinton.

If impeachment is to mean anything for the future, at some point the impeachment of a president or vice-president must be for real issues of malfeasance. So far the ones impeached have not. And the ones who should have been impeached have escaped accountability.

David S. Addington, counsel to the vice president (2001-2005), chief of staff to the vice president (2005-2009)
Alberto R. Gonzales, White House counsel (2001-2005), and attorney general (2005-2008)
James Mitchell, consultant
George John Tenet, director of Central Intelligence (1997-2004)
Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor (2001-2005), secretary of state (2005-2008)
John Choon Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel (2001-2003)
Jay Scott Bybee, assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel (2001-2003), Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2003-present)
William “Jim” Haynes, Defense Department general counsel (2001-2008)
Donald Henry Rumsfeld, secretary of defense (2001-2006)
John Rizzo, CIA deputy general counsel (2002-2004), acting general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (2001-2002, 2004-present)
Steven Bradbury, principal deputy assistant attorney general, OLC (2004), acting assistant attorney general, OLC (2005-2009)
George Walker Bush, president (2001-2009)

Any ideas about the softest target?

He’s simply too powerful and well connected to play soft-ball with, his organization will chew up and spit out any bottom up approach to righting the ship.

I equate taking Cheney off the board to removing an opponents queen in chess. Some might think of it as cutting the head of a snake, but there is no question that removing Cheney from the board first is the first and only move that can reasonably be expected to yield results.

US AG oath of office

Section 3331. Oath of office

An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an
office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed
services, shall take the following oath: “I, AB, do solemnly swear
(or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I
will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this
obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” This
section does not affect other oaths required by law.

Supremacy Clause

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.

The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I require the ratifying parties to repress grave breaches of the conventions, which are classified as war crimes under statutes of the International Criminal Court and the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996. States parties—that is, the ratifying parties—are required to search for persons who have allegedly committed or ordered the commission of grave breaches of the conventions and bring those persons before their own courts, or hand them over to another state party for trial.

So is Holder a perjurer or a coward?

by ShadowSD
Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 10:52:21 AM PDT

“Big news on The Chris Matthews show today from NBC Justice correspondent Pete Williams:”

[But is it true?]

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