New Mexico’s fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias op-eds in today’s LA Times on Gonzeles et al. in advance of this morning’s testimony by Monica Goodling:
WHAT HAPPENS in a presidential administration when loyalty, to borrow a phrase from “Star Trek,” becomes the “prime directive”? What happens when its all-encompassing fog obscures all other values — such as fealty to the Constitution, the rule of law or simple humanity?
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What has become clear already is that the “loyalty uber alles” mentality has infected a wide swath of the Bush administration. Simple notions like right and wrong are, in their eyes, matters of allegiance, not conscience.
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Loyalty is a virtue with limits. That was one of the many hard lessons from Watergate. In that scandal, some of President Nixon’s staffers carried their loyalty to the president all the way to federal prison.
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What has become clear already is that the “loyalty uber alles” mentality has infected a wide swath of the Bush administration. Simple notions like right and wrong are, in their eyes, matters of allegiance, not conscience.
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Loyalty is a virtue with limits. That was one of the many hard lessons from Watergate. In that scandal, some of President Nixon’s staffers carried their loyalty to the president all the way to federal prison.
And what happens when bloggers say it for years while it is happening before any US Attorney picks up on it?
How unaware were these professionals? And why?
Will it improve the standing of bloggers in the eyes of the MSM? No, because they are in denial.
If no one except the bloggers were picking up on it, and the bloggers were right on, why not listen to the bloggers instead of the MSM liars?
Tradition. Really, really, really bad tradition!
It’s really quite simple.
Every member of the Judiciary Committee must be called into a conference room equipped with “cellphone blocker” and the door locked. A vote is taken to issue a directive for the Congressional Police to move into the RNC headquarters and the NOC (Network Operations Center) of their e-mail host and sieze all computers belonging to the RNC in order to obtain the documents they have demanded and that have been “claimed” lost. The vote will be Dems in favor and Rethuglicans opposed. The Congressional Police will already be standing by just down the block from the appropriate sites.
It is necessary to “lock down” the committee, because otherwise, the Rethuglicans on the committee, who care more about party than country or law will tip off the criminals.
Congressional Police should be fully armed with Congressional Supenaes and tazers.
Do you have any info on what AUSA Thomas C. Wales was really working on when he was murdered?
And, was McKay fired for too aggressively pursuing the investigation of Wales’ murder?