You would think confirming Dawn Johnsen would be a priority for the Obama White House, but clearly you would be wrong. What is even more startling is, given the heavy exposure of the problems in the OLC, and inability of OPR to regulate it, the last few days that no one in the press and media are asking the Obama White House why they have so hung their own nominee out to dry.

The first, and most obvious, issue of conflict with OPR is that it places evaluation and resolution of ethical complaints against DOJ attorneys in the hands of the DOJ. The power to determine whether there is any impropriety is solely within the hands of those supervising and/or ultimately responsible for the impropriety. It is a process ripe with conflict and cronyism that protects DOJ malfeasants at the expense of the public interest and well being.

The OPR Report has been leaked, and it looks like the Obama DOJ has watered it down to protect Bush malfeasants.

OLC wrote Steven Aftergood a little Valentine’s Day love letter, telling him to just embrace the absurdity.

Remember that OPR investigation into the legal rationale for warrantless wiretapping? Well, it’s going to find more than an opinion that speciously justified spying on Americans. It’s going to find that John Yoo told BushCo that he gets to write his own law.