Likely worth watching this week is Dan Abram’s “Bush League Justice” series at 9pm ET Mon – Thur on MSNBC.
Blogging at MSNBC and Huff Po, Abrams says the series is in response to his “increasing frustration and outrage over how the Bush administration has politicized the usually apolitical Justice Department,” which, he writes, has “significantly abused its authority to try to enhance power at the expense of any sense of objective justice” and has “decimated some of the most fundamental and cherished principles that define justice in this country.”
Ya think?
He also goes on to focus on the breathtaking failures of the DoJ’s Civil Rights division, which we’ve taken considerable notice of here at The BRAD BLOG — including, but not limited to, most recently its Voting Section chief John “Minorities Die First” Tanner — over the past several years…
Instead of pursuing cases of discrimination against African Americans, the Division under President Bush has focused on supposed reverse discrimination against whites and religious discrimination cases against Christians. A Boston Globe report even showed that almost half of the new hires in that department who had “civil rights experience” had “experience” only in defending employers or — fighting — affirmative action.
Those in the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department must really feel like they are in an upside down world. From 2001 to 2006, not one voting discrimination case was brought on behalf of African-American voters. Instead they have focused on alleged voter fraud cases that effectively target minority communities rather than protecting them.
Abrams goes on to point out several more troubling points about the Bush League DoJ, including a “University of Minnesota study conducted this year [which] shows that for every elected Republican investigated during this president’s tenure, there were seven elected Democrats investigated.”
A line in his final graf caught our eye as both the most inadvertently self-critical as well as the most incisive: “This series is long overdue.”
UPDATE: Video now available at right here…
It’s still going to take me a hell of a long time to forgive any of these shills like Abrams for what they’ve done over the past few years though.
Flipping their ideals for a buck ?, for ratings ?
Which way are you going to go tomorrow Dan ?
He has no credibility to me.
…has that fluffer Abrams ever mentioned the Don Siegelman case ? Link
I doubt it
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Is MSNBC covering Sibel?
The CMSM now has the audacity with forlorn expressions to ask where has or Democracy gone and how did we become a Fascist State.
How about for seven years the CMSM gave the idiot Prezidunce fascist dictator wannabee an uncontested free pass to dismantle America into a third world police state military junta – haven for war profiteers. And the media propaganda machine for bu$$hCo drank champaign to toast the monkey child boy king’s every move.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx...c-f9a2c8b389a2
Got dial up ? Here is a written synopsis by MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22150519/
Floridiot –
Abrams mentions Siegelman, as I recall, in his blog item linked from the original post above.
I read it this morning and now reading it again, he does mention him…not by name though (?)
Maybe he will on his show ?
IMO the Siegelman case should be the ‘end all’ of these criminals
So Abrams wants to be the new Greg Palast? Too late, dude. You’re still recycling yesterday’s news. How about telling us something we don’t know?
Brad, I was just listening to Big Eddie Schultz Show what’s this deal about
independent media whith some guy Asner, Friedman, Phillips I just cot the end of it ?
Has bu$$hCo politicized the prosecution of the Gitmo cases much the same as bu$$h politicized the U.S. Department of Justice ? The head JAG lawyer who was in charge of prosecuting these cases but recently quit says yes. Now bu$$hCo is trying to muzzle him.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004877.php
This military JAG lawyer – Col. Morris Davis says the secret cases being heard down in Gitmo are a travesty to/mockery of justice. America should be ashamed. He was so disgusted he quit his job presenting these cases for the military – because “loyal bu$$hies” are now running the show and calling the shots for these Gitmo enemy combatant prosecutions.
The bu$$h administration sent a “loyal bushie” William Haynes, the Pentagon’s general counsel, down to Gitmo to be the head coordinator for the prosecution of these cases. William Haynes chosen as the “loyal bu$$hie” was the lawyer who worked hand in hand with John Yoo to ascertain that water-boarding was just an intensive form of questioning – but not illegal torture.
Col. Morris Davis is interviewed by Canadian media about the “loyal bu$$hies” politicizing the prosecution of the Gitmo cases.
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The Current: Part 2
Gitmo Prosecutor
When Colonel Morris Davis laid charges against Omar Khadr last February, he was a true believer. As the chief prosecutor at the U.S. military commissions, he was a vocal supporter of what his government was doing at Guantanamo Bay. In fact, when he wasn’t prosecuting cases there, Colonel Morris traveled across the United States, preaching about the humane living conditions detainees enjoyed and the strong legal foundation of the commissions that would prosecute them.
But today, Colonel Morris is telling a different story. He is now the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay. He resigned to protest the undue political pressure he says he was feeling from the Pentagon. And he isn’t alone. Colonel Morris is the latest in a growing line of military officials who have stepped down over concerns about how the United States is interrogating and prosecuting its so-called enemy combatants.
Colonel Morris Davis spoke to us from Washington.
(There is an audio link at CBC Radio from a telephone interview Col. Davis gave today – if you can figure how to get it opened. Scroll down until you see it listed as above.)
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/20.../20071211.html
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Col. Davis speaks out and writes an OpEd.
http://volokh.com/posts/1197328482.shtml
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More details of Col. Davis’ concerns
http://aidpblog.org/2007/12/10/...utor-resigned/
The “loyal bushies” running the show for politically inspired inmate prosecutions down at Gitmo,..
***** William J. Haynes II, the Pentagon’s general counsel, is a protégé of David Addington, who was involved in the development of the administration’s torture policies (aka “enhanced interrogation techniques”) in 2002 .
**** Susan Crawford is a former chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces, says various Google finds. Has worked as Inspector General for the Defense Dept….( interesting )
New England School of Law, 1977. Undergraduate degree in history 1969.