Tyranny
Attorney General Michael Mukasey is back on the Hill today, testifying to the
House Judiciary Committee. Paul Kiel is covering it at TPMmuckraker.So far, he’s dropped two big bombshells. DOJ will not be investigating:
- whether the waterboarding, now admitted to by the White House, was a crime; or
- whether the Administration’s warrantless wiretapping was illegal.
His rationale? Both programs had been signed off on in advance as legal by the Justice Department.
Follow the bouncing ball here.
- The B*sh junta decides it wants to torture someone, so they
- get a bagman to apply some whiteout (to satisfy the “if it doesn’t say torture, it’s not torture!” criteria) for them, which is
- the excuse for the next bagman to not do anything about either of these high crimes.
In short, the Coward in Chief is claiming “l'état, c'est moi!” I’ll not hold my breath waiting for any complaints from the Stupid Party congressional caucus (the Evil Party caucus is, of course, a complete waste of oxygen and will complain about tyranny starting the day after California falls into the sea) because they’ve already shown that it’s more important for them to be loved by the beltway dinner-party crowd than to actually govern. How fortunate for them that the United States has a dictator who’s more than willing to free them of that awful burden.