A letter sent today by the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office to Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) informs the chair and ranking member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that they are expanding their current probe into DoJ practices to including the politicization of hiring practices, as discussed during Monica Goodling’s recent testimony before the committee.
The DoJ IG letter is posted in full at the end of this article.
Here’s the statement in response to the letter today as sent to The BRAD BLOG earlier this afternoon:
RAW STORY has more here. Washington Post has more here.
The single-page May 30, 2007 letter from Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, and H. Marshall Jarrett, Counsel, Office of Professional Responsibility, follows in full below…
So, is the DOJ Inspector General a good guy or a bad guy? Does an expanded investigation mean that a REAL investigation is going to take place, or simply a Western Town facade of an investigation has been erected that the town baddies can hide behind when subpoenaes for documents and witnesses are issued by the House and Senate investigative committees (as in: “We (Gonzales/DOJ) cannot provide those documents because there is an ongoing investigation. We cannot provide those witnesses because there is an ongoing investigation. We cannot make any comments on that because there is an ongoing investigation.”)?
TIM GRIFFIN IS OUT!
Knowing the level of corruption of the Neo-con criminals in the Bush administration and their Democrap enablers, the proper first impression is typical calculated Rovian damage control. He is saying, “nothing to look at here because we will investigate ourselves.” Clearly an effort to cover their own ace since the closed unrecorded testomony behind closed doors offer didn’t wash.
WE MUST IMPEACH AND JAIL THE CHENEY-BUSH ADMINISTRATION. Democrap (FASCIST) robber baron enablers who voted to extend Haliberton’s oil war beware.
You guys are correct this is a whitewash of the first degree to protect Griffin and Rove.
I was kinda hoping that he would go to work for Reag…er…Thompsons Campaign and if Fred gets the nod, pull the caging charges out against Griffter about a week or so before the (s)election, then watch em squirm.
Play their game I say.
oops, on this story and 99s link I was talking about.
Obviously it will be easier, now, for lil Tim to go over to Fred “Biggie” Thompson’s racist realm and do the caging from there.
Thompson will support any and all “law and order” of the special Department of
JusticeJust Us type. He is all practiced up for the big act (a.k.a. “campaign”) ya know.The RNC will provide laptops with GOP email addresses so Timmy “Da Cager” Griffin can “lose” them, like Karl “Marx” Rove has done.
They will be more careful this time not to send any emails to Gregg “Dangerous” Palast. 🙂
Perhaps they will announce they are going to move their headquarters to Dubai on July 4th, so they can be closer to Dick “Quick Draw” Cheney at Haliburton when he retires to his Dubai paradise.
OMG Dredd, The Today Fascist Show on NBC was quite a trip.
They announced Fred “Reagan” Thompson was going to run by playing the theme from Law and Order, Tweety was lickspittling all over himself…it was sickening.
I wonder if Gore will get the same treatment ?…nevermind.
I hope Alan Breslauer has some good video of this, but you’ll need the barf bucket alongside of you to watch it.
Floridiot #7
I wonder how many of the neoCons would believe it if Fred “Reagan” Thompson claims that he is Reagan returning from the dead?
They have indicated that they are desperate. Especially after the faux republican debate where 90% of them advocated torture. Can you believe that … presidential candidates advocating torture on TV?
I wonder if that was one of Monica’s requirements? Be a loyal bushie who advocates torture in the name of Gawd All-mighty-bushie?
DeLay has said:
(New Yorker). In DeLay’s vision from Gawd I wonder if Gawd’s face was that of Ronald Reagan or of Fred Thompson?
Torture on TV ? well we all know these MFers are nuts.
I personally don’t think that Delay talked to God, Satan maybe…or if was Ted Haggard or Mark Foleys case…that would be Satin 😉
I think we need to pull back from the dog and pony show at doj and look over Rove’s shoulder for a minute. Election fraud is what this whole rotten mess is about, and these snakes are buried so deep that we don’t have time to kill them all off before the 08 election, unless we know where to look. They won’t waste their “talents” on seats that are solidly blue or red. Where will they strike? Some really educated and informed folks out there could put together some good ideas and we could watch these areas closely for election fraud.